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Teaching Bing Maps Some New (Language) Tricks
We are excited to announce the preview release of dual labeling, ‘neutral ground truth’ (ngt) and additional language support. This new update to the AJAX Version 7.0 control allows you to create maps...
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Bing Rewards Members Get OneDrive 100 GB Special Offer
To celebrate the recent launch of Microsoft’s OneDrive, for a limited time Bing and OneDrive are offering 100 GB of OneDrive storage to all new and existing members of Bing Rewards for just 100...
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A New Route for Bing Maps Developers
About 9 years ago, I started a little MapPoint Web Service blog targeted at helping Enterprise customers and developers build geospatial applications. Having run the consulting arm of Vicinity...
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Doing Right By Customers
Social media has changed our lives, no question. As a consumer, today you have more power than ever. The Internet brought a massive expansion in choice of where we shop, and increased access to lower...
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Wrap up the Awards Season with Bing.com/Awards
The 2014 Awards Season came to a close last night with the 86th annual Academy Awards, and the show certainly did not disappoint. From dazzling red carpet looks, to surprising wins, Bing monitored the...
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Bing Web Search Arrives on Xbox One
With Xbox One, we introduced an all-in-one games and entertainment system with sophisticated voice navigation and natural language voice search powered by Bing and Kinect. In addition to combining...
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微软必应搜索：跟社会虚假客服说再见
近年来网络诈骗日趋泛滥，虚假信息已经成为广大网民头上的紧箍咒，对金融安全与信息安全构成重大威胁。据中国互联网络信息中心（CNNIC）发布的《2013年中国网民信息安全状况研究报告》显示，在过去半年中遇到过网络安全问题的中国网民比例已高达74.1%，影响总人数达4.38亿人。其中以银行、电商虚假客服为代表的诈骗信息占据了不低的比例。为什么虚假客服电话得以在网络上如此泛滥？在近日举办的中国互联网大会上中...
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Speak Plainly or Forever Lose Your Customer
Part of the equation of success is being seen as relatable. From time to time, almost all of us hits this wall to one degree or another. And no, I’m not saying you have a personal failing here.When you...
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Learn How to Create Heat Maps in Native Windows Store Apps
Find out how I came up with a solution for creating heat maps in native Windows Store apps and document the reusable library that I created. Heat maps, also known as density maps, are a type of overlay...
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Find It Faster with Image Match
Searching for the right image can be tough. After sorting through hundreds of images, you finally find a picture you like but unfortunately it’s low resolution or an odd dimension leaving you to go...
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Embrace College Basketball with Bing Sports Apps
With the NCAA college basketball tournament teams selected Sunday, people across the country will be filling out their brackets. To get in the spirit, we are rolling out dedicated content experiences...
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Reviewing Some Basics
It’s easy to get caught up in the latest and greatest, the forward thinking and the new and shiny. But it always pays to keep an eye on the basics. The stuff you feel you really already know. The stuff...
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Bing Helps You Get There Faster
Recently, we rolled out a faster way for you to get directions between two places on Bing*. Now, when you search for driving directions from say, Los Angeles to San Diego, we’ll surface the estimated...
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Learn How to Create a Location-aware Windows Store App (Unabridged version)
Are you developing a location-based Windows Store app using web or managed programming languages? Do you need help with how to get started?A new eBook entitled, Location Intelligence for Windows Store...
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So you didn’t get the job…4 things to do next
You prepared for the interviews, felt the interviews went well, and all signs pointed to yes...and yet in the end they decided to go in a different direction. Now what?After you brush off the...
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Usability, Mobile and Your Future
This should come as a surprise to no one reading blogs like this one. Mobile is your future. Everything points to this. Adoption rates, bandwidth access, changing mobile plans from major carriers,...
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How to Create Custom Shapes in Windows Store Apps (C#)
In the Bing Maps SDK for Windows Store Apps there are five main types of data that you can add to the map: Pushpin, MapPolyline, MapPolygon, MapTileLayer, and UIElements. UIElements can be added to the...
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5 Steps To Improving Search Rankings
I’ve shared this previously, but recently did a deeper dive on the subject with Eric Enge. This week’s blog post will be pretty short, then as the full interview can be seen of his Stone Temple blog....
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150 Million More Reasons to Love Bing Everyday
At Bing, we understand that search is more than simply finding information and browsing a collection of blue links pointing to pages around the web. We’ve talked about doing instead of searching and...
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How to Create a Customer Ranked Auto Suggest with Bing Maps and Azure Mobile...
From time to time I come across developers who want to have an auto suggest search box to use with their map. Your first thought might be to simply use the Bing Maps geocoding services to do this,...
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