
Web Search Client
Web Search Client
Bing Web Search is the general-purpose web search API — keyword queries return aggregated webpages, images, videos, news.
Bing's index is second only to Google
Sunsets 2025-08-11 (entire Bing Search API family)
Obtain a key from Azure. GET /v7.0/search?q=microsoft&mkt=en-US&count=10
Uptime · 30-day window
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.
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
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:
Example request
curl https://microsoft.com/<endpoint>Getting started
Obtain a key from Azure. GET /v7.0/search?q=microsoft&mkt=en-US&count=10
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.
Technical details
- 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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