Bing previews new Bing Search APIs

Bing adds tons of features to their Bing Search APIs, which now are REST APIs.

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 partnerwithbing@microsoft.com.