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Hi all, I am a program manager in the Bing API team. I am providing some pointers for people that are interested. We released our latest Search APIs in March via the Microsoft Cognitive Services site. You can find them here: https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services. All APIs are currently offered for free with limited calls per month (for most APIs,the quota is 1,000 calls per month). We will announce soon a pricing plan if you want to extend the monthly quota.

Some folks mentioned this page: https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/bing/search. I want to clarify that the page includes the old Bing Search APIs that are still in use, but will be deprecated in the future.

You can send feedback or questions here: https://cognitive.uservoice.com/

[Edit] Here is also a blog post with useful resources: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bingdevcenter/2016/04/13/re...

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Hi, just a quick bit of feedback -- 1k API calls / month is so low as to be a nonstarter. Of the half dozen hobby (non-commercial) projects I am currently working on, this amount is tragically low. Per day would give me pause.

I don't mean to rain on your efforts, but I would personally never consider using an API with such limits, even for trivial hobby projects.

Agreed -- 1k/mo is not worth the initial time investment.

Thanks for the feedback. We do not have any immediate plans to change the call limit for the preview offering. We've seen from our data that 1K calls / month are sufficient for most developers who want to get started using the APIs. We we will certainly consider revising this in the future if there's strong demand. I encourage you to file this as a request here: https://cognitive.uservoice.com. We review user ideas and feedback there on a regular basis to improve our services. Thanks again!

This is very interesting functionality to me, that I would use if it works well. Thanks for trying to clarify what's going on with it.

But when between one fairly poorly documented API that you've told me will soon be deprecated, and another fairly poorly documented API that doesn't have pricing beyond 1K calls a month....

...my response is still "Okay, that could be good in the future, I guess I'll sit back some more and wait for pricing and better docs to show up before paying more attention to it, I hope it does soon!"

I need to know pricing before deciding to use something. And I need good (and google-able! Sorry, even if I'm using Bing API, I'm using Google to look for info on it) docs, along with of course a well-designed API that works well, but I need the first two things before I even get to evaluating the next.

I keep checking out the Bing API every couple months, hoping for sort-by options (I need last changed date, most recent first). Any hope of ever seeing sort-by-date from Bing? Google has it, I don't think anyone else does.

Is that 1000 calls per API key, or per IP address? IE if we make client-side calls can we do higher volume?

per API key

> https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/bing/search. I want to clarify that the page includes the old Bing Search APIs > that are still in use, but will be deprecated in the future. >

I just migrated to the Bing API when Yahoo BOSS closed 31 March :-(

Will there be a new image search api similar to the one you offers now? Can you share any timeframe for the deprecation?

https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/pricing does seem to indicate that there will be a Bing Image Search API under the new umbrella.

There's one https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/bing-imag...

As others pointed out, you can find information about the new Bing Image API here: https://www.microsoft.com/cognitive-services/en-us/bing-imag.... I cannot provide an official deprecation date yet, but here's a rough timeline: we will first announce the pricing plan for the new APIs in early-to-mid summer. We will then provide a notice to existing users of the old APIs to switch to the newer version within 6-12 months - note again that the dates are not final.

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