HOW TO use Bing Search v5 API with JavaScript

Taking off from the single basic JavaScript sample on the newly minted version 5 of Bing Search API, I put together a couple of samples of my own. You'll have to sign-up for a free key from Microsoft Cognitive Services to replace in the code samples to try them & also experiment with all the other APIs that are available

Bing Search API gets not just web search results but also image, news, & videos results for a given query and allows up to 1,000 free transactions per month across all Bing Search APIs

Google Custom Search API has a few additional steps & provides 100 search queries per day for free

This comparison of version 2 and 5 highlights the improvements -

Category Feature		v2	v5
Web Search	REST API	x	x
	Related searches	x	x
	Ranked Answers (image, video, news, math, time)		x
	Deep links (for first web page result)		x
	Adult intent signal		x
Image Search	REST API	x	x
	Enhanced filters: image size, license, style		x
	Visually similar images and products		x
	Merchant and recipe sources (for product and food images)		x
	Trending images		x
	Entity recognition (for people)		x
	Computer-generated captions		x
Video Search	REST API	x	x
	Video previews (motion thumbnails)		x
	Enhanced video metadata (creator, resolution, view count)		x
	Free / Paid video filter		x
	Trending videos		x
News search	REST API	x	x
	News articles by category or market	x	x
	Trending news (general or by category)		x
	Enhanced article metadata, including featured entities
Spell Check	REST API		x
Autosuggest	REST API		x
General	Location and market awareness	x	x
	Spelling suggestions	x	x
	Safe search	x	x
	Related searches	x	x
	Continuous relevance improvements		x
	Ongoing support and feature improvements		x

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