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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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Is there a way to get Bing's photo of the day?

Is there some way I could get the Bing background image programmatically? Bing's API doesn't seem to provide such functionality, perhaps there's another way?
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Is it ok to remove Google TXT verification records after I've authorized my domain with Google?

For Google Analytics, I had to prove that I owned my domain. I added a TXT record to do this. I also had to prove to Microsoft that I owned my domain by uploading a file (BingSiteAuth.xml) to my site. Now that I'm up and running with Analytics and…
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How I can make use of Microsoft Rx Framework to implement Bing Map effectively in WinRT / Windows 8

In my e-commerce application I need to plot my nearby stores in Bing map, And my another requirement is during the time of zooming and paning the map I need to update my stores based on the map centre. So for implementing this I primarily choose the…
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Bing search API and Azure

I am trying to programatically perform a search on Microsoft Bing search engine. Here is my understanding: There was a Bing Search API 2.0 , which will be replaced soon (1st Aug 2012) The new API is known as Windows Azure Marketplace. You use…
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List of JSON search engine APIs without quotas, like Bing?

I'd like to display some custom search results. I've looked at the JSON APIs of both Google and Microsoft (Bing). Unfortunately, Google has a limit on the amount of queries a day ($50 for a maximum of ten thousand queries). However, Bing allows an…
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Creating RSA keys from known parameters in Java

I'm working on implementing Bing Cashback. In order to verify an incoming request from Bing as valid they provide a signature. The signature is a 160-bit SHA-1 hash of the url encrypted using RSA. Microsoft provides the RSA "public key", modulus and…
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How do I prevent Bing from swamping my site with traffic irregularly?

Bingbot will hit my site pretty hard for a couple of hours each day, and will be extremely light for the rest of the time. I'd either like to smooth out its crawls, reduce its rate limit, or block it altogether. It doesn't really send through any…
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How to use Bing Translation API?

I am trying to use the Bing Translation API, but I am confused. There seems to be much possibilities (old and new ones) but I don't understand what I have to do. Can someone please help me? I want to send a HTTP Request like…
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How to deal with non UTF-8 encoded urls in express

We have a node js application which we have recently moved over from running on IIS 7 (via IIS node) to running on Linux (Elastic Beanstalk). Since we switched, we've been getting a lot of non UTF-8 urls being sent to our application (mainly from…
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Bingpreview invalidates one time links in email

It seems that Outlook.com uses the BingPreview crawler to crawl links in emails. But the one-time links are marked as used/expired after opening the email and before the user gets the chance to use them. I try to add a rel="nofollow" in the but…
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Search button inside the search box like Bing

How can I implement a search button inside the search box, as seen on a site like Bing?
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Why does Bing obfuscate their JavaScript?

I was surfing the web, as usual and I wanted to take a look at Bing's source code because I was curious and wanted to know what they were using to make their image fade in. I was surprised by what could only be qualified by the following line : Holy…
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Bing Search API: Narrow by date

In it's current version, is it possible to use Bing's "Narrow By Date" feature when accessing it's API? I cannot find any information about how to narrow the results such that it only shows results from the "past 24 hours" or "past week" (and so…
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Different results using Bing.com and Bing Search API

I'm using the Bing Search API 2.0 (XML) & PHP to retreive results. But when running some queries, the API doesn't return the (same) results Bing.com would. When I send this request: (This is using the…
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Block bingbot from crawling my site

I would like t completely block bing from crawling my site for now (its attacking my site at an alarming rate (500GB of data a month). I have 1000 sub domains added to bing webmaster tools so i cant go and set each one's crawl rate. I have tried…
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