{"id":11459,"date":"2017-05-30T12:57:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T17:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/therealdaily.com\/?p=11459"},"modified":"2017-05-30T12:57:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T17:57:57","slug":"bing-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/real-estate-tech\/bing-places\/","title":{"rendered":"You may not care about Bing, but your business should"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bing is starting to integrate chatbots into their search results<\/h2>\n

Restaurants can now take advantage of bot technology through Bing Places. Using the data from Bing Places, search users can ask questions that the chatbot can answer. These would align with some of the essential information you see online, like hours of operation, dietary accommodation, pet accommodations and child accommodations.<\/p>\n

Read also: Google Maps updates are wicked awesome for busy real estate agents<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n

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\nIt can also answer questions about available amenities, such as high chairs, wi-fi and outdoor seating.<\/p>\n

Bing Places<\/h2>\n

If the chatbot can\u2019t answer these questions, they can bring that to the attention of the business owner, who can then add that information into Bing Places.<\/p>\n

The information is pretty easy to integrate for business owners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

They answers some structured questions, agree to the terms of use, and then select which channels in which to deploy the bot.<\/p>\n

Upping their bottage<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s very clear that this is the first step of a larger vision for Bing\u2019s bot usage. Currently, restaurant owners can utilize this functionality on Bing Search, Skype and SMS. Bing plans to roll it out to Facebook messenger and Cortana in the very near future.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s in addition to the obvious expansion of the feature to other small businesses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Since Bing is a part of Microsoft, it is also integrated into the Xbox and Cortana (the voice assistance on on Microsoft computers). Cortana surpassed 100 million monthly users last year, part of a larger trend that lead comscore to predict that by 2020, 50 percent of all searches will be voice searches.
\nMicrosoft noted in an quarterly earnings report that \u201cXbox Live monthly active users reached a record 55 million \u2013 up 15 percent from the same quarter last year.\u201d These may not be the largest platforms in the world, but their growth can\u2019t be ignored.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the curve<\/h2>\n

In addition to positioning itself well on the growth curve, Bing is pivoting its search product to better cater to the growing needs of voice search. Because voice search caters to natural human language, the queries tend to be more specific and in-depth than your average search query send through a keyboard.<\/p>\n

Mobile voice-related searches are 3x more likely to be local-based than text. By rolling this product out through local search, Bing is positioning itself to take care of a phenomenon that will fundamentally change search in the years to come. Bing may have been easy to write off in the past, but it is proving to be a serious strategic contender in the future world of search.<\/p>\n

#Bing<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(TECHNOLOGY NEWS) Bing is stepping up their game and bring bots to their search engine. Bing’s bots are about to make looking up business information with Bing a million times easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337672,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[1583,1584,1234],"class_list":["post-11459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-real-estate-tech","tag-bing","tag-bots","tag-real-estate-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/337672"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11463,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11459\/revisions\/11463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theamericangenius.com\/housing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}