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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Today at Build 2017, the Bing Team announced the release of Bing Search APIs v7 Preview, the preview for the new version of Bing Search APIs as part of Microsoft Cognitive Services. This release includes the full suite of Bing Search APIs (Bing Web Search API v7 Preview, Bing News Search API v7 Preview, Bing
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If you couldn’t attend in person, we want to remind you that you are now able to get free access to all the Bing Search APIs, including documentation and demo widgets that demonstrate the capabilities of the offering. These APIs give developers access to the same search technology that powers the Bing search engine and
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The search engine can be a developer’s best friend. But going between IDE and the browser is a hassle. Every time you are stuck in tricky compiler errors, you have to modify your search string, copy and paste all the relevant error information, and try multiple searches to find the right solution. In Visual Studio 2015, we’re making
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Earlier last month, we had the opportunity to present our Build with Bing talk as part of //Build 2015, in which we highlighted some Bing technologies to make your apps more powerful and discoverable. With the //Build Tour events now wrapping up in June, this is a great opportunity to recap some of those technologies and
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Today we’re releasing the Bing Knowledge Widget for webmasters and publishers. It’s an easy-to-deploy, JavaScript-based widget for webmasters that detects and visualizes entities on the webpage and displays rich information about the entity. It provides your visitors with quick access to relevant information about the entities on the page, and keeps them engaged, entertained, and
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BUILD 2014 App Linking Blog Post Link Your App to Search Results App discoverability and app engagement are major challenges that app developers face every day. With millions of apps out there, how do people discover your app? And after a user installs your app, how do you encourage them to engage with it? According
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The native Bing Maps Windows Store control has two types of shapes: polygons and polylines. These shapes are great for representing areas and paths on the map. Often it is useful to be able to associate some information or metadata with these shapes. In past versions of Bing Maps we could easily store this information
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