The Bing Application Programming Interface (API), enables developers to programmatically submit queries to and retrieve results from the Microsoft Bing Search Engine.
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Number of results google (or other) search programmatically
I am making a little personal project.
Ideally I would like to be able to make programmatically a google search and have the count of results. (My goal is to compare the results count between a lot (100000+) of different phrases).
Is there a free…

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Is there any limit to number of markers that can be placed on google static maps?
Is it possible to place (say 1000) markers (using set of LAT-LONG values) on Static Google map image?
Also, is there some sort of HTTP POST method to achive this or URL is the only way to go?
Basically, I was looking into Bing maps REST service -…

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Bing Search API: Narrow by date
In it's current version, is it possible to use Bing's "Narrow By Date" feature when accessing it's API?
I cannot find any information about how to narrow the results such that it only shows results from the "past 24 hours" or "past week" (and so…

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How to obtain Bing search Api and AppID for a website
i have created the site in which i want to use bing search API. for that it require AppID but i didn't get the AppID. i tried to create a AppId on (azure market place) by creating the windows live ID. i created the client id and register the…

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How to specify Image type in Google Custom Search
I am using Google Custom Search to get images with some criteria.
I am initiating HTTP Get requests from java application to call the Google Custom Search API (Please note I am NOT using javascript or css and I am NOT developing web site).
I am…

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How to obtain a Bing API AppID
My intention is to access the Bing API in Windows Phone projects, where i have to supply APP ID in the code. Many tutorials have said the same story to access the APP ID like Nokia Tutorial and CodeProject too. But Bing announces that now…

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What is the best way to translate a big amount of text data?
I have a lot of text data and want to translate it to different languages.
Possible ways I know:
Google Translate API
Bing Translator API
The problem is that all these services have limitations on text length, number of calls, etc. which makes…

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Bing Map API vs Bing Map manual RouteRequest . Is the API inaccurate?
I tried to test Bing Map API's accuracy . I tried to find out the distance and driving time between Chicago O'Hare International Airport and Chicago Midway Airport . It appears that Bing Map API is completely inaccurate . I double and triple…

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Bing maps Polygon Search is not accurate
I am having a bit of a problem with the bing maps example Polygon Search found here:
Polygon search is about halfway down this link.
public bool polygonSearch(LocationCollection points, double lat, double lon)
{
MapPolygon poly = new…

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Bing Spell Check API, stops working after 128 characters
I am trying to to use the Bing Spell Check API v5 but I'm running to to many issues.
When requesting to either spell or proof with the sentence below, it returns no flagged tokens.
This is a long sentance with some mistakes in here. Its supposed…

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How to get number of search result from Bing API
I want to use bing search api to obtain search result count for given query, however, Bing API seem to not return any fields containing the search result count.
Should I specify some option to request URL? Or Bing API not return the result countt?

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Bing Search API finds different results from the public search interface
I used the bing search api to search site:www.article-submissions.biz, the query string is
http://api.bing.net/json.aspx?Query=site%3Awww.article-submissions.biz
The total results are 7
I search it on bing.com, the result is 45.
Why are the…

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Alternatives to the Google Search API
If someone searches for a keyword on our website, we currently pull in Google's search results. We have done this using Google's standard search API with no real issues so far.
However, we noticed that a number of searches weren't going through. So…

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Bing Ads API V11 Exception : Invalid client data. Check the SOAP fault details for more information
I am using BingAds-PHP-SDK to get authenticated user detail.
Firstly done Authentication with OAuth successfully and get authentication token and refresh token.
But when call GetUser() returning following Exception.
Main Exception detail:
stdClass…

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No more bird's eye view in the Bing Maps V8 API?
It appears that Bird's Eye View is no longer available in V8. Can anyone confirm that this is actually the case or if there is any way of still using Bird's Eye View in the new version?
Microsoft's documentation about this is very poor, so I just…

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