With a little over one month before December 15, End of Life for the Azure Data Market “Bing Search” and “Bing Web Results Only” API offerings is quickly approaching. At Bing we are continuously hard at work to improve our offerings and are excited that the next version of our APIs are now part of
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is central to our ambitions as a company. Through this intelligence, we want to empower everyone to achieve more. Central to that mission is leveraging the knowledge of Bing and the services that Bing has created to make knowledge accessible and usable by all. In this first post on how Bing technology is
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New bot samples leveraging Bing and Cognitive Services APIs are now available in the Bot Framework samples github repository. The samples showcase how bot developers can leverage the capabilities of our APIs in the areas of computer vision, speech, and image search to build smarter conversational experiences. The samples are available in C# and Node.js
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App companies Cardinal Blue Software and WildWorld are using Bing APIs, now part of Microsoft Cognitive Services, to create innovative consumer experiences that delight and help secure a competitive advantage. Read the customer stories below to find out how the Bing APIs factor into their success. Cardinal Blue Software Cardinal Blue Software, with offices in
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Starting July 1, the new Bing Search API portfolio is available for purchase as a Microsoft Azure Marketplace offering. The next version of Bing Search APIs are Cognitive Services – using  the same core Bing platform and features that hundreds of millions of monthly users rely on for search across Bing, Cortana, Office, and trusted external
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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 Bing team knows that developers want solutions that are easy to understand, simple to implement, and can make your apps and experiences smarter and more engaging for your users. Based on feedback from developers, partners and customers, we have created the next-generation of search APIs.
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RocksDB is an open source key-value persistent store, optimized for fast storage. It was started and open-sourced by the Facebook engineering team. It is performant in contemporary server environments, takes advantage of modern storage media, and drastically improves on the LevelDB foundation it was initially built on. It provides scalability with number of CPUs 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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