bing-search

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summary

Microsoft's Bing.com search engine supports hCard, hReview, hReview aggregate, hProduct, hCalendar, and hRecipe microformats in main search, per Bing Help: Marking up your site: Overview.

Bing launched their microformats support as of at least 2011-07-21 or earlier.

supported formats

Bing supports the following microformats:

• hCard
• hReview
• hReview aggregate
• hProduct
• hCalendar
• hRecipe

Bing also supports their own breadcrumbs format which may be worth researching.

Also: http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/?topic=da2b3faa

Businesses and organizations

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/markup-businesses-and-organizations-cc507c09

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Events

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/markup-events-0f23328d

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People

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/people-markup-86fb1ed0

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Products and offers

Bing's documentation on Products and offers support

hProduct properties supported (bold = required)

• fn
• brand
• category
• description
• identifier
• price (not in documented list, but used in markup example provided)

Reviews

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/markup-reviews-76f106ad

and

http://www.bing.com/webmaster/help/markup-reviews-aggregated-785302d2

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validator

Main article: validators

The Bing Markup Validator tests for various microformats support, including hCard, hCalendar, and others. Note: 2012-02-03 launch announcemnt: Bing Webmaster Center blog: Webmaster Tools Markup Validation Tool

see also

• Microsoft
  • previous URL to support: http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/hh207238.aspx
• search
• validators