Introduction to Bing Search Services

What is bing search?

Bing Search is a service hosted on Microsoft Azure. It offers a set of APIs that let you quickly provide results to web searches just like Google Search. Bing Search can deliver results as web pages, images, videos, news, translations & much more.

These APIs intelligently navigate through hundreds of trillions of web pages, images, videos, and news to provide relevant results that are customized to the searcher’s location or the market.

Different bing search APIs

Azure Bing Search provides a rich set of APIs that can be consumed by any application to provide a feature similar to a search engine. There are six sets of APIs that are most often used. Let’s explore them briefly.

• Azure Bing Web Search API: The web search API offers the functionality to fetch the webpages and their corresponding data (like its URL, a short ...