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Announcing the new Live Search API, version 2.0 beta!
Author: Alessandro Catorcini, Lead Program Manager, Bing API If you've been wondering what was simmering in the Live Search API pot these past months, wonder no more! Today we officially launched our beta for the new generation of search engine API.   Live ...
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Microsoft gives us the no-usage-limits Bing API
The Next Web — Planning to “build your own search engine”? Help might come from Microsoft’s Bing API, a much enhanced version of the Live Search API available at the Bing Developer Center. Taken from a pre-Bing-launch blog post, this is what the Bing API delivers in a nutshell: Offers new interfaces: JSON, and XML over HTTP. The Live Search SOAP interface will also be maintained. Parsing out non-web results that had been shoehorned into a one-size-fits-all response structure, has been an issue with the Live ...

Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing….
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews — ... . Like the Bing service itself, the API is a re-branded and enhanced version of the Microsoft’s Live Search API. Just days before the official Bing launch, the API was updated with many of the features of the new Bing service. That earlier announcement for Live Search 2.0 has the highlights: ...

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