Why am I not getting local results from my Bing Search?

Question

I am using the DataMarket bing search API, with a query like

https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Data.ashx/Bing/Search/Composite?$format=JSON&Sources='web'&Query='restaurant'&Adult='Strict'&Latitude=36.949448&Longitude=-121.874279

Here, the longitude and latitude are my location.

If I search for 'restaurant' or 'coffee' I am expecting to get matches for my location (restaurants near me?), but I seem to get just a general coffee match, nothing local about them.

What do I need to do for local search results?

Answer 1

Hi,

That's what Bing Map API does for finding location I think.

Thanks,

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Answer 2

I still cannot find a publicly accessible Bing API that does a local search for say coffee shops. There is the spatial search but that is apparently for enterprises. It's kind of embarrassing, I know you have the data, but where is the API? I am using Yahoo to demo local search in my tutorials, I don't know why MS wants to make it impossible to use Bing to do this?

Answer 3

Hi,

It is beyond what I can answer why it doesn't support it. Now Bing search API only returns web, image, news and video types. As I said above Bing Map API supports it, so why don't you try that.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff701715.aspx

Thanks,

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Answer 4

That API does not return nearby coffee shops, or so, which is the kind of search I am looking to do. It does geocoding, like turning an address into a long, lat.

The only Bing API that I can find is Spatial Data Services, which requires an Enterprise Key.