Bing Product Upload (codenamed ''Agora'', formerly ''Windows Live Product Upload'' and ''Live Search Product Upload'') was part of

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's Bing search engine. It enabled online shoppers using

Bing Shopping Bing Shopping (formerly MSN Shopping, Windows Live Shopping, Live Search Products and Windows Live Product Search) is a products search and discovery service that helps save time by bringing products from multiple sellers together on a single websi ...

to find easily find merchant's products. Product Upload helped merchants to upload their product catalogs in either text or XML file formats. It supported bulk uploads using

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and browser-based uploads using

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. After the products were uploaded, they became visible to online shoppers using

. Shoppers were able to view prices, descriptions, and product images, and a direct link to the merchant's website to purchase their products. Merchants required a

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to log in and sign up. Bing Product Upload was discontinued on 15 May 2009.

Features

Catalog Management

Merchants might upload their product catalogs in any of the formats supported: text or XML through either HTTP upload or FTP. Products could include images, description, price, and links to web addresses on the merchant's website. They could upload any number of catalogs with no specific limits. Once the catalog was successfully published and has passed the validation steps it would be searchable through

Reporting

Merchants could use Product Upload to keep up to date on the status of their catalogs and keep track of their products on

External links

Bing Product Upload

Bing Shopping

Official Live Search Product Blog
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Features

Catalog Management

Reporting

See also

External links