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Anyone know about what the technology stack is behind Bing? It would be interesting to know if MS uses their own .NET framework or if it is built on something e

Anyone know about what the technology stack is behind Bing? It would be interesting to know if MS uses their own .NET framework or if it is built on something else.

gaius 16y ago
I expect under the hood Bing is Azure.
- sriramk 16y ago
  Not much (the real-time Twitter results is one such piece). You have to remember that Bing predates Azure by many years. There is a lot of code/idea sharing though.
- Locke1689 16y ago
  Azure is too new to be used by much in terms of internal MS. It's usually the other way around (other MS software is being used to power Azure).
barake 16y ago
Parts of Bing are (were?) backed by Hadoop thanks to Microsoft's purchase of Powerset - all their NLP search technology ran on Hadoop.
- Locke1689 16y ago
  I don't think this is true anymore... I think we're using COSMOS now? Maybe someone else wants to help me here.
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nathanwdavis 16y ago
A little googling finds: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/fsharp-041310.aspx http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/fsharp-041... "We’ve also seen fantastic applications in server-side data analysis, including in parts of the Bing ad delivery and analysis pipeline. F# seems a particularly good language for programmatic machine learning." I think that is just one small part of the Bing system though.
- Locke1689 16y ago
  That's Microsoft Research. There's no real direct pipeline from MSR to production. Edit: To clarify, I know MSR is using F# in a lot more places than we are.
abhay 16y ago
Bing uses a lot of Microsoft technologies including C# and .NET framework languages but as with many large services (or sets of services in this case) the components crawling, processing, indexing and serving content are written in a variety of languages including C, C++, etc and are managed by a myriad of tools languages that support features.

Anyone know about what the technology stack is behind Bing? It would be interesting to know if MS uses their own .NET framework or if it is built on something else.

gaius 16y ago

I expect under the hood Bing is Azure.

sriramk 16y ago
Not much (the real-time Twitter results is one such piece). You have to remember that Bing predates Azure by many years. There is a lot of code/idea sharing though.
Locke1689 16y ago
Azure is too new to be used by much in terms of internal MS. It's usually the other way around (other MS software is being used to power Azure).

barake 16y ago

Parts of Bing are (were?) backed by Hadoop thanks to Microsoft's purchase of Powerset - all their NLP search technology ran on Hadoop.

Locke1689 16y ago
I don't think this is true anymore... I think we're using COSMOS now? Maybe someone else wants to help me here.

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nathanwdavis 16y ago

A little googling finds: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/fsharp-041310.aspx http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/fsharp-041... "We’ve also seen fantastic applications in server-side data analysis, including in parts of the Bing ad delivery and analysis pipeline. F# seems a particularly good language for programmatic machine learning." I think that is just one small part of the Bing system though.

Locke1689 16y ago
That's Microsoft Research. There's no real direct pipeline from MSR to production. Edit: To clarify, I know MSR is using F# in a lot more places than we are.

abhay 16y ago

Bing uses a lot of Microsoft technologies including C# and .NET framework languages but as with many large services (or sets of services in this case) the components crawling, processing, indexing and serving content are written in a variety of languages including C, C++, etc and are managed by a myriad of tools languages that support features.