Transformer models that power a growing number of intelligent capabilities in Microsoft Bing have significantly increased model complexity over the last couple of years.  To ensure Bing will continue to deliver the fast, responsive, and relevant search experience our users expect, we optimized transformer inference for both latency and throughput using NVIDIA T4 GPUs in NCasT4v3 Azure VMs.  These optimizations have enabled Microsoft Bing...
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The Microsoft Bing platform has built one of the largest distributed storages for Bing web search data, using its home grown ObjectStore service. The system hosts hundreds of petabyte data and processes hundreds of millions lookups per sec. Open source RocksDB is used as the storage engine. Multiple techniques are applied to efficiently store and process the massive data with sub-second data freshness. This blog will present those techniques and...
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Bing and all search and recommendation experiences at Microsoft are powered by infrastructure that runs at extreme scale and speed. The platform team is a world-class engineering team with presence around the world. Our mission is to build platforms that empowers the scale and scenarios for search today.  
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Bling Fire Tokenizer is a blazing fast tokenizer that we use in production at Bing for our Deep Learning models. We’ve added support for the BERT-style tokenizers, available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X.
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The Bing Search APIs team will be at Microsoft Ignite 2019, in Orlando, Florida, November 4th through the 8th. If you are registered for the event, stop by the Azure Cognitive Services Web Search booth in the AI Apps & Agents area to learn more about the rich Cognitive Services search features and solutions available via the Bing Search APIs.
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The Bing Search APIs team will be at Microsoft Inspire 2019, in Las Vegas, Nevada, July 14 through the 18th. If you are registered for the event, stop by the Bing Search APIs booth in the AI area to learn more about the rich Cognitive Services search features and solutions available on the Bing Search APIs platform.
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The Bling team in Bing Web Data is proud to announce that we’ve released Bling FIRE (FInite state machine and Regular Expression manipulation) library to the open source community.
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Microsoft Build 2019 is taking place in Seattle, Washington, May 6 to May 8, and the Bing Search APIs team will be there. If you are registered for the event, stop by the Bing Search APIs booth to check out the rich web search API solutions available, all powered by Bing.
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Nothing is more important than your reputation. The reputation of a business or organization is built from several factors—search results, social media mentions, and customer reviews. Bing News Search can serve as a powerful data provider to help you track and manage public sentiment about you, an organization, or a brand
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Today, we are announcing Bing Local Business Search in public preview as our latest addition to our existing portfolio of Search APIs on the Cognitive Services platform. Bing Local Business Search API helps users search for local businesses in a given area of interest, enabling users to easily find local business information from Bing’s industry-leading index within your applications and websites.
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