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RSS feedOctober 2020
Bing Search APIs will transition from Azure Cognitive Services to Azure Marketplace on 31 October 2023
Target retirement date: October 31, 2023
Continue to create new instances of Bing Search APIs under the Azure Marketplace.
August 2019
Cognitive Services - Azure Active Directory authentication and custom subdomains are now in preview
Target availability: Q4 2019
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) authentication allows you to authenticate to Cognitive Services using Azure AD or user principals. This capability provides greater flexibility for managing access to Cognitive Services and makes it easier to use existing policies for credential rotation and to enforce custom password standards.
May 2018
Microsoft Cognitive Services | Bing Custom Search API
Bing Custom Search API is an easy-to-use, ad-free search solution that lets you build a search experience and query content on your website or across a selected set of websites or domains.
May 2017
Microsoft Cognitive Services – Bing Custom Search
Bing Custom Search, soon to be in preview, will let you create a highly customised web search experience that will deliver better and more relevant results through a commercial-grade service. Featuring a straightforward user interface, Bing Custom Search will enable you to create your own web search engine without a line of code.
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