Apr 14 2021 03:46 PM
Bing used to have really awesome tools for developers in search. There was a color-picker, an ascii table, and even the ability to find and run commonly searched code snippets on the results page. I found the ascii table helpful and used to use it a lot since I have a tough time remembering the ascii codes. It's been a while since I used the code snippet feature, but it was extremely useful for me a few years back when I was getting into computer science at school. I'm providing links at the end of this post to the articles that show these features and what they were. Hopefully, a few of them will come back.
Microsoft and HackerRank bring executable code snippets to Bing - TechCrunch
Bing Code Search Makes Developers More Productive - Microsoft Research
Apr 15 2021 12:00 AM
Apr 22 2021 11:43 AM
I'm a sad that this received no reply from anyone. These tools were extremely useful, and I would love to know why they are now gone. 🙁