How are pages counted in Bing search API?

Question

Bing Search API pages state:

Each page of results returned for a query uses a single transaction and will count toward your transaction limit.

and:

A transaction is one request that returns one page of results. Retrieving multiple pages will result in multiple transactions executed.

I am unable to find any place where it tells how pages are calculated. Is it amount of results returned (what if I ask for top 10) or it depends on sources requested (web+image+video+news+spell)? Anyone working on it or knowledge on it, please provide some details.

Answer 1

Hi,

It seems Bing won't return the exact the number of total result. Using "Next" button after numeric button now. You can open the Bing page and try to do a search to see the paging template. Use this to get paging:  /feed/link[@rel=’next’].

For the Transaction issue, refer this thread. It explains:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/DataMarket/thread/fa533e96-b0b7-4162-8246-5b914fbe6816

Thanks,

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Answer 2

Thanks. Great help.