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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

You're reading from   Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services Use Cognitive Services APIs to add AI capabilities to your applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789800616
Length 312 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Leif Larsen Henning Larsen Leif Larsen Henning Larsen
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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. Building Recommendation Systems for Businesses 8. Querying Structured Data in a Natural Way 9. Adding Specialized Searches 10. Connecting the Pieces A. LUIS Entities B. License Information Index

Searching the web using 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 that are 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, as we do in this 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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