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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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Link Juice
One bottle of Link Juice* and you’ll be more popular than a puppy in a sweater! Loaded with all the nutrients and goodness you need to successfully grow, a single bottle of Link Juicecontains:100 total...
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Making Search More Personal
The world is a chaotic place. From the billions of Facebook updates made each day to the constant tick of stock quotes for the 3,571 companies listed on NASDAQ, there are trillions of pieces of...
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Bing at Build 2014: More Personal, Intelligent and Helpful
For Bing, the future of search is not about more search boxes – it’s about building a platform that enables applications and devices to empower people with knowledge and help them do more - not just...
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Announcing Bing Knowledge Widget & App Linking
Bing Knowledge WidgetAt Bing, we want to help people do more and know more. We’ve been building Bing’s knowledge repository that now has hundreds of millions of entities (people, places, and things)...
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Geo-fencing with Bing Spatial Data Services and Azure Mobile Services
Triggering certain actions such as sending notifications or alerts when a device enters or leaves an area is often referred to as geo-fencing. The geo-fence, the boundary of the area of interest, can...
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Top College Basketball Fans Searches
As we head into the college basketball championships this weekend, we thought it would be interesting to delve into the Bing search index to see if we could gather insights on the tournament. We took a...
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Image Overlays with Bing Maps (Native)
A while back I wrote a blog posts called Image Overlays with Bing Maps (JavaScript). In this blog post we saw a couple of different ways to overlay an image on the map and bind it to a bounding box...
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Staying Fit with Bing Maps
I just feel better when I have a certain level of fitness. So, I came up with the idea of the ‘Donkey Bike’. The idea was to create a virtual trip to visit my parents in Germany and track the progress...
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Spring Cleaning - For Your Career
Spring is a time of renewal, a time to make household repairs, plant a garden, or lose the spare tire that mysteriously appeared sometime between Halloween and New Year’s Day. Dusting off the cobwebs...
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Where Does Your Time Go?
Time is the one thing we all want more of, yet no one can create more of. It limits what we can accomplish all too often, and it forces us to work faster and smarter. There’s way too much of it when...
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Integrating Store Apps with Cortana in Windows Phone 8.1
Last week, we took the stage in San Francisco and proudly announced Cortana as part of the Windows Phone 8.1 update. You’ve likely already read about how Cortana will use the power of Bing to deliver...
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Bing Spatial Data Services Meets 3D
At //build 2014 there were many exciting announcements. It would have been easy to miss one of the implications of the moment of glory for Internet Explorer 11 during the keynote on day 1. The demo of...
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Bing.com Gets More Personal
At Build, we previewed Cortana powered by Bing which will ship with the upcoming release of Windows Phone 8.1. One of the things that makes Cortana so helpful is her ability to learn about your...
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Bing Supports Vets with General Assembly's Opportunity Fund
General Assembly, a global educational group that provides best-of-class practical education in business, technology and design, is empowering the next generation of innovators and entrepreneurs. This...
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What if…(The More Things Change, the More Different They Become)
As you ease into your ergo chair, or settle in astride your giant yoga ball behind your computer, you face another day. Another day of gathering data, auditing web pages, digging into keyword reports,...
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Predictions with Bing
As Yogi Berra once said, “it’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”One of the most interesting aspects of search engines is their ability to process trillions of signals to reflect...
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