For the past several years, the Bing Search API has made search data available for developers to innovate and build upon. Today we are announcing that the Bing Search API will transition to an offering made available on the Windows Azure Marketplace ...

Effective December 8, 2011, we will discontinue support for both the Instant Answers source type and for Phonebook Residential White Pages results via the Bing API version 2.0.  For those of you using these source types with the Bing API, this means...

The Bing API and management tools are undergoing scheduled maintenance. This maintenance will have no impact on your current use of the Bing API. Please check back tomorrow to sign up for the API or manage your AppIDs. We apologize for any inconvenience...

Gang, we've got a quick note here to alert users to an item we'll be shutting down in 60 days. As of April 4th, 2011 we will discontinue support for the bing.com/siteowner functionality. If you continue to leverage the feature after this date (April 4th...

The Bing Product Guidelines provides visual guidelines and recommendations to implement the branding for Bing for third parties. These guidelines can help echo the Bing product brand experience into your environment. We’ve updated the Bing Product...

UPDATE: Following our announcement (8/6/2010) to discontinue support to Bing API 1.1, the API 1.1 service will go offline on Monday May 2, 2011 at 11:00AM PST. What this means to you is that customers who have built search applications that leverage the...

Bing offers several ways to augment a basic Bing query. For the most part, we’ve talked about using the Bing API to tailor requests. However, there is another tool that you can use in either an API request or a Bing box: Advanced Query Language...

With the Bing Maps Apps SDK just released, it’s time to get started writing apps using the Bing Maps platform. The first thing you need is something to map. I wanted to do something a little more interesting than your typical “Hello World...

Announcing the Bing404 plugin for WordPress -- a great new plugin that returns a page of intelligent search results in place of the unhelpful WordPress 404 error page by using keywords extracted from the dead URL that otherwise would have resulted in...

Announcing the new Bing Search Library for PHP , created in conjunction with PHP guru Cal Evans , which is available under an open source BSD license. Not only did Cal design and write the code, but he also posted a tutorial that includes sample code...

In our continued effort to improve the community experience for all users, we are updating our spam policy, which will take effect May 24, 2010. Please review Rick DeJarnette's blog post about the updates, posted to the Webmaster Blog: Comment spam policy...

Got Bing on your site yet? If not, there's an online tool that makes adding a Bing search box to your site nice and easy. Simply go to http://www.bing.com/siteowner for the 3-step process to add an advanced search box that you can customize, so users...

You’ve said you’d like us to expand the range of our portable documentation beyond the current CHM offering. We’ve heard you! Now, everything you ever wanted to know about the Bing Application Programming Interface (API), Version 2,...

Whether you are new to the Bing API or have been working with it for some time, you may not be aware of the SourceType code samples available on the Microsoft Developer Network . A SourceType is a source of information accessible to the API, and you can...

Got questions about the API, SourceTypes, working with PHP? The answers to these and other Bing developer "frequently asked questions" now are available in a single document: Download the Bing Developer FAQs now (512 KB .pdf) These are the same FAQs that...