API

Microsoft has announced that it will move the Bing Search API to Microsoft’s Windows Azure Marketplace and going to charge for it’s search API calls.

Some Notes:

approximately $40 (USD) per month for up to 20,000 queries.
transition will begin in several weeks and will take a few months to complete.
After the transition period, Bing Search API 2.0 will no longer be available for free public use
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