Azure Bing Search API - Market parameter

Question

Lately there has been a problem with the market determination and the explicit Market parameter.

Firstly, all of a sudden, if I have no Market parameter specified, the default has been Chinese. Bing used to give me English (I don't know what region).

I decided to make the apllication's default be "Market=en-ww" (English-worldwide), as specified in the old Bing 2.0 API. It is not recognized. (en-US works...)

Is en-ww abandoned?

And based on recent problems, should I assume the new API system will NOT determine the region (or at least provide some English default)?

Thank you.

Barry Frand
Compserv

Answer 1

Hi Barry,

This seems to be incorrect behavior. Let me look this up and get back to you.

Thanks,

Max

Answer 2

This should be fixed now. Let me know if this works correctly for you.

Thanks,

Max

Answer 3

Just noticed your reply. I'll check. Thanks.

Meanwhile another question:

What is the official list of market parameters (en-US, etc...)?

I can tell you that many of the Bing search engine list country-language pairs simply DON'T work with the Azure Bing API, crash the search, and give errors!

Please advise the exact official working list.

Thanks,

Barry

Answer 4

You can see the official list while exploring the dataset: https://datamarket.azure.com/dataset/explore/5ba839f1-12ce-4cce-bf57-a49d98d29a44

Check Market selection field scroll on the right.

Thanks,

Max