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Web Search Client

Bing Web Search is the general-purpose web search API — keyword queries return aggregated webpages, images, videos, news.

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Use it when

Bing's index is second only to Google

Watch for

Sunsets 2025-08-11 (entire Bing Search API family)

First check

Obtain a key from Azure. GET /v7.0/search?q=microsoft&mkt=en-US&count=10

Auth
CORS
No
HTTPS
Yes
Signup
?
Latency
132 ms
Protocol
REST
Pricing

Uptime · 30-day window

Probes: 1Uptime: 100%Avg latency: 132ms
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About this API

Bing Web Search has been the go-to API for "programmatic general web search" — Google Custom Search has heavy restrictions, DuckDuckGo has no official API. Bing Web Search returns aggregated results per query (web pages, images, videos, news, related searches, ranking signals), with global coverage and English quality approaching Google's. Its biggest recent use case is LLM RAG real-time context — AI assistants answering "what happened today" need web search. **Important: Microsoft announced the entire Bing Search API v7 sunsets on 2025-08-11.** Plan migration to Brave Search API, SerpAPI, Tavily, or similar.

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What you can build

  • 1Build a custom search-engine app
  • 2Real-time web context for LLM RAG
  • 3Real-time web queries for research tools
  • 4Alternative to Google Custom Search for generic web search
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Strengths & limitations

Strengths

  • Bing's index is second only to Google
  • Single call returns aggregated web + images + videos + news
  • Rich parameters: freshness, market, safesearch

Limitations

  • Sunsets 2025-08-11 (entire Bing Search API family)
  • No advanced operators like Google's site:
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Example request

Generic template — replace <endpoint> with the real path from the docs.
curl https://microsoft.com/<endpoint>
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Getting started

Obtain a key from Azure. GET /v7.0/search?q=microsoft&mkt=en-US&count=10

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FAQ

What replaces it after 2025-08-11?+

Brave Search API, SerpAPI, Tavily are the main alternatives. Quality and pricing differ — test early.

Can I use site: and similar operators?+

Bing supports some operators (site:, filetype:) but the coverage is narrower than Google's.

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Technical details

CORS: NoHTTPS: YesSignup: ?Open source: No
Auth type
unknown
Pricing
unknown
Protocols
REST
SDKs
python, javascript, csharp, java, go
Response time
132 ms
Last health check
5/12/2026, 7:37:52 AM
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