{"id":1776,"slug":"bing-json-ld-2018-supports-multiple-formats","title":"Bing — supports JSON-LD, schema.org, Microdata, Microformats, Open Graph, RDFa via the Markup Validator (August 2018)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","status":"current","audiences":["kevin","dev","candid-team"],"topics":["schema-org","structured-data-mechanics","rich-results-eligibility"],"reference_body":"**Claim:** \"Bing works hard to understand the content of a page and one of the clues that Bing uses is structured data.\" Bing supports JSON-LD, schema.org, Microdata, Microformats, Open Graph, and RDFa via its Markup Validator.\n\n**Source:** Bing Blogs, \"Introducing JSON-LD Support in Bing Webmaster Tools,\" August 2018.\n\n**Confidence:** Verified — primary (Bing announcement).\n\n**Caveat:** Bing's *current* rich-results behaviour is documented mainly via this 2018 announcement and third-party SEO guides; less actively maintained primary documentation than Google's.\n\n**Why this matters for Candid:** The structured-records story is not Google-only — the same markup eligibilities apply to Bing (and, increasingly, AI engines that consume Bing index data). Pair with [[google-structured-data-mechanism-recipe-example]] for full coverage.","rationale_body":null,"metadata":null,"links":{"outgoing":[{"slug":"schema-org-itemlist-listitem-product-types","title":"schema.org — ItemList / ListItem / Product / Offer types exist precisely to mark up individual records and lists as machine-readable structured data","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"google-structured-data-mechanism-recipe-example","title":"Google Search Central — structured data labels each individual element so users can search by ingredient, calorie count, cook time","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}],"incoming":[{"slug":"research-brief-searchable-structured-catalogue-working-tool-june-2026","title":"Research brief: the searchable, structured catalogue as a working tool — when records-not-prose pays off (June 2026)","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"},{"slug":"caveats-searchable-catalogue-no-isolated-study-vendor-skip-thresholds","title":"Caveats for the searchable-catalogue brief: no study isolates catalogues as a variable; vendor-sourced skip thresholds; Baymard age; AI-eligibility under-sourced","kind":"reference","scope":"business","link_type":"relates-to"}]},"created_at":"2026-06-21T13:17:12.676Z","updated_at":"2026-06-21T13:17:12.676Z"}