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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

You're reading from   Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services Leverage Machine Learning APIs to build smart applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623025
Length 368 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Leif Larsen Henning Larsen Leif Larsen Henning Larsen
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Microsoft Cognitive Services 2. Analyzing Images to Recognize a Face FREE CHAPTER 3. Analyzing Videos 4. Letting Applications Understand Commands 5. Speaking with Your Application 6. Understanding Text 7. Extending Knowledge Based on Context 8. Querying Structured Data in a Natural Way 9. Adding Specialized Searches 10. Connecting the Pieces 11. LUIS Entities and Additional Information on Linguistic Analysis 12. License Information

Searching the web from the smart-house application


The Bing Web Search API provides us with a search experience similar to what we find at http://bing.com/search. It returns results relevant to any queries.

A response for any request to this API will contain web pages, images, videos, and news articles. In a typical scenario, this is the API you would use for any of these searches.

Note that, in a real-life scenario, all requests should be made from a server-side application, not from a client, like we are doing in the example.

Note

If you have not already done so, sign up for the Bing Web Search API at https://portal.azure.com. You can read more on the API at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/bing-web-search-api/.

Preparing the application for web searches

Before diving into the required technicalities for web searches, we are going to prepare our smart-house application.

Add a new View in the Views folder, called BingSearchView.xaml. At the very least, this should...

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