


Marketing teams can look for mentions of their products in news stories to see if there’s a customer satisfaction issue building up. We have an API of all the publicly available data on the planet and we will make sense of it for you.”įor example, schools and companies can use the Bing Search APIs to detect plagiarism or to make sure that any content used in a report has been correctly referenced. “It’s not just about creating search engines it’s about connecting developers to a world of information – regardless of what public documents or public images you’re looking up – and being able to find and reuse that information. Like the other Bing Search APIs, that’s useful for more than just searches, he points out. You can crop the image on the search page if you’re interested in just a particular section of it.” “If you see a product on TV or in a photograph, or even at a friend’s house, and you want to track down the details, being able to search by taking a photo (or using the image you saw online) to find more images of the same thing can help you find out who makes it and where you can buy one yourself. “In Cognitive Services today, we have the Visual Search API which allows you to take an image and we will find images like that for you across the planet,” Brian King from the global Bing products ecosystem team explained to CodeMatters. For the times when it is difficult to use words to accurately describe an image, users can use an image – rather than a text description of what’s in an image – to search for similar pictures through an API to get the same visual search experience that’s available on the Bing site.īing can use an image as the basis of a search query rather than text – and developers can do the same with the Visual Search API The Bing Search APIs are not contained to search using words.

Part of the Azure Cognitive Services, the various Bing Search APIs let you search for standard web results, images, videos or news stories and customise or prioritise the results you can also use the Bing technology for checking whether the words in a search query are correctly spelled to check the spelling and grammar of text on your own website or in an app. The technologies that power Microsoft’s Bing search engine are available to developers and enterprises in several ways, including the Bing Search APIs. At the recent Build 2019 conference, Microsoft showed developers a sneak peek of an upcoming Bing Search API for searching through a database of their own images to look for a visual match to an image rather than a text query.
