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Google has it’s webmaster tools and developer community so with Bing Microsoft definitely wanted to join the bandwagon. Bing released it’s Toolbox site. The Toolbox is nothing more than a collection of existing tools. Microsoft is going in the right direction in trying to open itself to the developer industry.

Bing™ Webmaster Center Tools enables site owners to troubleshoot the crawling and indexing of sites, submit sitemaps and view statistics about their sites. Webmasters can also review data on how many pages of their site(s) have been indexed, backlinks, inbound links and keyword performance. There is also a new Bing API Web Page Error toolkit that features an improved architecture, and easier deployment. Webmasters are also able to remediate detected malware.

The Bing Toolbox will be a valuable resource for all developers that could used for requesting and managing an AppID to receive programatic access to Bing when building or enhancing a site or applications.