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Bing (formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is a web search engine (advertised as a "decision engine") from Microsoft. Features include search, maps, and translator.

Bing (formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is a web search engine (advertised as a "decision engine") from . Bing was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego. It went fully online on June 3, 2009, with a preview version released on June 1, 2009.

Notable changes include the listing of search suggestions as queries are entered and a list of related searches (called "Explore pane") based on semantic technology from Powerset that Microsoft purchased in 2008.

In October 2011, Bing announced it is working on new back-end search infrastructure, with the goal of delivering faster and slightly more relevant search results for users. Known as “Tiger,” the new index-serving technology is being incorporated into Bing globally starting in August 2011.

Bing currently powers all searches.

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What is the technology behind bing? Its own version of map-reduce algorithm or something else?

Bing's search hits are quite impressive, has Microsoft not let anyone in on behind the scenes of their search technology? Tried http://www.discoverbing.com but couldn't find the answer to my question.
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Anyone using Bing Map Web Services with Delphi?

Has anyone gotten Bing Map Web Services (formerly Virtual Earth Web Services) working with Delphi? Based on my experiences so far (both using Delphi and Visual Studio C#), I'm about ready to give up on it and go with the MapPoint Web Service until a…
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New Bing API PHP example doesnt work

Microsoft's own PHP example for new Bing API doesn't work. I tried in many ways, it just shows: Server Error 401 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to invalid credentials. You do not have permission to view this directory or page …
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Bing: search - match only exact literal strings?

I'm using PHP and the Bing API to search for certain domainnames. I want only the results that are an EXACT match. Somehow Bing returns results that do not match exactly. When I search for : "www.gebouw.nl" I sometimes also get results like …
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Where can I find a corpus of search engine queries?

I'm interested in training a question-answering system on top of user-generated search queries but so far it looks like such data is not made available. Are there some research centers or industry labs that have compiled corpora of search-engine…
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Bingbot converts unicode characters to not understandable symbols

I get a lot of errors from my site when bing trying to index some pages which have unicode characters. For example: http://www.example.com/kjøp Bing is trying to index http://www.example.com/kjøp Then I get en error…
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Is there a way to get bing and google news search as rss?

Is there a way to get Google and Bing news searches as RSS? I'd like to have the most recent at the top of the results (ordered by time) if possible. And show 100 results if that is possible. I found this for Google, but it only shows 5 items or so,…
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Response encoding with node.js "request" module

I am trying to get data from the Bing search API, and since the existing libraries seem to be based on old discontinued APIs I though I'd try myself using the request library, which appears to be the most common library for this. My code looks…
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Opening in new tab: how is 'Bing' doing this? (IE9)

Opening target ="_blank" links in a new tab or new window is based on user settings, and when I click on a target ="_blank" link, it opens in a new window (IE9). However in Bing, when clicking "see full size image" it opens in a new tab! (you can…
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How to stop e-mail clients from visiting links in e-mail automatically?

I have a PHP script that sends out plain-text e-mails which contain links to certain actions like confirmations and agreements etc. What I have noticed is that the Web version of Outlook will automatically detect the link and visit the link in the…
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Bing Ads API PHP Report Request without download

Is there a way to get the data from a report request without downloading a file? The google adwords api allows the api to return the report in a tab delimited string which I can then dissect myself without ever making a file. I am currently using…
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PowerShell : Import-Module : assembly name or codebase was invalid (HRESULT: 0x80131047)

I just installed the new ISE Module Browser, wanted to try the first module, I've chosen the Bing module (which require another module called BetterCredentials, but that was handled well, so no problem). So as mentioned in the beginning of the…
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Silverlight - Adding Text to Pushpin in Bing Maps via C#

I was able to make my silverlight Bing map accepts Mousclicks and converts them to Pushpins in C#. Now I want to show a text next to the PushPin as a description that appears when the mouse goes over the pin , I have no clue how to do that. What are…
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Search Bing via Azure API using Python

How can I search Bing for images using key words? I am able to search Google using: import urllib2 import json credentialGoogle = '' # Google credentials from: https://console.developers.google.com/ searchString = 'Xbox%20One' top = 20 offset =…
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Bing Api not working for me

I am using Bing Api, My problem is very basic. I already generated App key, but I got error in output in console. I am using this for JSON response NSString *urlString=[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@%@%@", …
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