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Enterprise Search and Bing Services – Part 2: Bing Geo-coding Structured/Unstructured Text for Search
09 November 09 09:56 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

Web-based mapping services from Microsoft and others have been around for a number of years, but all are naturally dependent on data that contains well defined geo-coordinate information – usually latitude and longitude pairs. But what if you have content...

Filed under: enterprise search, bing, geosearch, bing maps, entity extraction

Enterprise Search and Bing Services – Part 1: The Bing Translator
22 September 09 03:53 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

(In May of this year, Microsoft launched its Bing search service for the Web. While Bing has shown steady growth in the Web search market, it’s not well known that Bing also includes a collection of services that can be accessed programmatically to enhance...

Filed under: enterprise search, bing, cross-lingual retrieval, translation, cross-language retrieval

Searching for Virtue - Virtuous Cycles as a Model for Successful Search Implementations
14 September 09 02:30 PM | Microsoft Enterprise Search Blog

I like design patterns. I like the idea that there are right ways to do things and wrong ways (anti-patterns). Of course I understand that the world is not so black and white, but collecting and cataloging the collected wisdom of what works and what doesn...

Filed under: enterprise search, actionable search, virtuous cycles, bing