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Azure Bing Search

Score8.1 out of 10

15 Reviews and Ratings

What is Azure Bing Search?

Microsoft Azure hosts a range of Bing Search tools for enterprise applications. These include:

-Bing Custom Search

-Bing Autosuggest

-Bing Entity Search

-Bing Image Search

-Bing News Search

-Bing Video Search

-Bing Visual Search

-Bing Web Search

Categories & Use Cases

A good platform for performing searches and search API integration

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Searching is a common tool in today's world to solve problems. If any problems occur in our organization, we search for the same problem in the search engines available so that we can get solutions as another person somewhere in the world may have had the same problem at any time before and had already found the solution. Similarly, our organization has adopted Azure Bing Search as a search engine to solve our problems. If we don't understand the clients' requirements or we are stuck in a particular problem while developing solutions for our clients, we make use of the product. The use of this product is completely internal to our organization. Likewise, the Bing Search API provided by Azure solves our problem of integrating the searching in our own products.

Pros

  • Searching
  • API for custom search integration
  • Recommending solutions for our products
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO) options

Cons

  • Pricing of Azure Bing search API is a lot more
  • UI of web search is not so good
  • Takes too much of browser cache space on long use

Most Important Features

  • Easy API integration
  • Faster and quick search response
  • Awesome customer service

Return on Investment

  • Increase in productivity
  • Better yield in income
  • Satisfied customers

Other Software Used

Shopify, GitLab, Canva

Safe and steady!

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Good search, reliable, steady- straight to the point and gives us the results we need. Really high quality, and fidelity, and our team use it in a safe way to search for stocks related to game development, game design, game production, stocks, images, videos, development, general placeholder, and also for the marketing pipeline. It is a sideline for our main studio, as it's a safe engine we can rely on without any NSFW content or anything that would disturb our current quality.

Pros

  • Safe
  • Steady
  • Reliable
  • Fast
  • Good results

Cons

  • Amount of results
  • Marketing (still not really used)
  • Algorithms regarding safe x non-safe x work safe

Most Important Features

  • Safety
  • Filtered Content
  • Stability
  • 24/7 on
  • Great results

Return on Investment

  • Safe
  • Steady
  • Safe for work
  • Good content

Alternatives Considered

Google Search Console, GlobalSearch and Homesearch

Other Software Used

Jira Software, ClickUp, Bing Maps

Build your own web search service with Bing Search...

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Using Azure Bing Search has been an interesting experience for several reasons. The best part about Bing Custom Search is that it gives me the power of a major search engine (Bing) with the reliability and ease of use I've come to expect from a multinational company like Microsoft. By asking a question I can receive structured answers and in addition, I can also configure a customized solution to search specifically for what I need, it is even easier to find what I want.

Pros

  • Stable results
  • A lot of customization and targeting of the search
  • Searching is quite good and fast

Cons

  • The price, it is expensive.
  • Filters could be more intuitive.
  • Pagination could be improved.

Most Important Features

  • Customize search
  • Integration with api
  • Suggest search terms in real-time
  • Filter and restrict image results

Return on Investment

  • Ease of conducting research using the feature Crop, resize, and display thumbnails.
  • Use the multiples endpoints available through the Bing Image Search API, this saves lives.
  • I really appreciate the possibility that customize a search for trending images from around the world.

Alternatives Considered

Azure API Management, Bing Maps and Bing Webmaster Tools

Other Software Used

Google App Engine, Bing Webmaster Tools, Azure API Management