Bing previews new Bing Search APIs
Bing adds tons of features to their Bing Search APIs, which now are REST APIs.
Barry Schwartz on March 15, 2016 at 12:00 pm | Reading time: 1 minute
Bing announced they are giving developers a preview of the new Bing Search APIs, version 5. The new APIs expose a lot more functionality for developers within the Bing Search infrastructure. The features include:
- search across hundreds of billions of web pages, images, videos, and news results;
- autosuggest services to improve accuracy and speed of user input in your apps and sites;
- assistive services such as spell-check and adult intent signal;
- access to trending topics including news, images and videos; and
- ability to filter image and video results by size, license, style and price.
Here is a side-by-side comparison of what is available in the current API and what is now available in the new one:
The new APIs are REST APIs, which many developers prefer over the old format.
To join the preview, email Microsoft at [email protected].
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Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.
In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
Barry can be followed on X here and you can learn more about Barry Schwartz over here or on his personal site.