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what to do when Bing api provides inaccurate results

I am trying to use the bing Phonebook search for locations in China, but all the latitude and longitude are inaccurate. Using the following http://api.bing.net/xml.aspx?AppId=appid&Query=nike&Sources=Phonebook&Latitude=39.9883699&Longitude=116.3309665&Radius=30.0&Phonebook.Count=10&Phonebook.Offset=30 I get ...

Bing maps silverlight control pushpin scaling problems.

Basically my problem is that i've adapted a piece of code found here http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vemapcontroldev/thread/62e70670-f306-4bb7-8684-549979af91c1 which does exactly what I want it to do, that is scale some pushpin images according to the map's zoom level. The only problem is that I've adapted this code to...

HttpWebRequest does has empty response requesting a search from Bing

I have the following code that sends a HttpWebRequest to Bing. When I request the url below though it returns what appears to be an empty response when it should be returning a list of results. var response = string.Empty; var httpWebRequest = WebRequest.Create("http://www.bing.com/search?q=stackoverflow&coun...

Bing Maps, VirtualEarth, MapPoint - how do they all relate to each other?

Hi, I want to start using Bing for a project which will include working out the shortest route between points, and plotting a route on the map, etc. However, along with Bing Maps, there is VirtualEarth and MapPoint. How do all these products relate to each other? If I use one, do I need all the others? Also, does Bing Maps use SQL Ser...

How to convert a city/state to a geo location (lat/long) using bing?

How to convert a city/state to a geo location (lat/long) using bing? ...

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 the methods that enable me to do this thing? This is the C# code : public partial class...

How does bing video search extract video from so many different websites?

Are they decompiling the flash or something like this? I can't imagine how they have done it. ...

Bing search API using Jsonp not working, invalid label

Struggling with Bing's json request (bing search, not map), I am getting an error back that says 'Invalid Label' My query url is: var bingurl="http://api.search.live.net/json.aspx?Appid=##APIKEY##&query=Honda&sources=web"; $.ajax({ type: "GET", url: bingurl, data: "{}", content...

Jsonp request using jquery to fetch bing web results

using this as a guide: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd250846.aspx can someone help me with the jquery call? Do I actually pass in the javascript code for the callback, or just the name of the function? BingSearch = function($bingUrl, $bingAppID, $keyword, $callBack) { $bingUrl = $bingUrl + "?JsonType=callback&JsonC...

bing api 2.0 sdk json samples got syntax error in Firefox browser

I just downloaded the Bing API 2.0 SDK. There are several html files in Bing API 2.0 SDK\Samples\JSON directory. I replaced the AppId in the JavaScript with my new AppId. These pages run fine in IE but I got 'syntax error' in Firefox, Firebug console. Does anyone have similar issues? What is in the page that is causing the 'syntax e...

How do you remove the Bing Disambiguation Dialog via API call?

I am integrating bing maps into a web page. I am calling the GetDirections() method of my VEMap option. and setting the VERouteOptions.ShowDisambiguation property to true when I call VEMap.GetDirections(). So sometimes I get the following dialog: The problem is sometimes the user will enter a second set of directions into my form, and...

How to get sites identical in content but different in language and TLD indexed by major search engines?

Hi! Is it possible to get two "editions" of a website both indexed by the major search engines (Google/Yahoo/Bing/Teoma) which differ in content language only and are hosted under different TLDs? Say English content is available at "http://domain.com/", German content at "http://domain.de/". Now, if e.g. Google.com is used I want it to ...

bing search api ajax does not work

Hi guys, I want to use the Bing's search api with javascript. Actually, I want the user to write something and query Bing in order to get just images. so, I tried it using ajax. If I try the url http://api.search.live.net/xml.aspx?Appid=[YOURAPIKEY]&sources=image&query=home directly (with the browser) I do get an xml document. ...

Why is GXHC_gx_session_id appended to URLs?

Based on my limited understanding of this parameter [1] it seems to be used in representing cookieless session IDs in java applications... but strangely, we're now noticing that a 3-year-old .NET stack is now appearing in Bing SERPs with GXHC_gx_session_id appended to the domain - and we're not alone: http://www.bing.com/search?q=GXHC...

Bing xRank feed source

Is there any way I can get Bing xRank results ? Any RSS feeds, Bing API calls I can use? ...

What is MSSRPD?

Recently, I found that some searches in Firefox are redirected to Bing. (Instead of my primary search engine Google.) I am not sure, but it seems that it is not bound to search but rather a hostname resolving. Since entering a single word that might be a hostname redirects to Bing. But entering more words searches using my primary searc...

Bing Maps pushpins appearing on top of map in Germany(latitude values getting automatically set to 0)

Hi, I have a Silverlight Bing Maps application where I plot the pushpins based on their latitude and longitude values on the map. Although the application works great in the US, the same application when viewed by our team in Germany ends up having all pushpins rolled up to the top of the map(latitude values get set to 0 by default). An...

Is there a Bing Static Maps API?

I found link text for Google, but I was wondering if there was an equivalent for Bing? ...

Provide a usable interface to integrating Opensearch providers in Firefox

When I started using Bing, there was a link just below the Firefox search bar which said Add Bing to Search Box and when I clicked it, it asked me for a confirmation and also if I wanted to use it right away. How is this functionality achieved? I don't want users of my site to go discover it from the highlighted searchbox and say "add bl...

Simple Bing News Search Api - Search for Phrase

I want to search for a phrase and not the collection of words How can I do this? For instance "&Query= Widget Foo" I only want to return results with the phrase 'Widget Foo' and not widget separate from foo. ...