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Use bing searches #387

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
http://www.bing.com/maps/?where1=miami,fl

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?
We currently rely on google for searches if it does not work user gets an error 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by heldersepu on 22 Jul 2013 at 2:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
I've been using Bing Searches on another project and they do have quite a good 
search with a good API, so implementing this shouldn't be a big problem.
Also their search seems to work quite well with arbitrary searches, seems to 
work a lot better than Google in that case.

Original comment by kipenros...@gmail.com on 22 Jul 2013 at 2:56

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
Not sure about the API there are restriction on Transactions/month will be 
better to just get what we need from the URL:
http://www.bing.com/maps/?where1=miami,fl

Original comment by heldersepu on 22 Jul 2013 at 6:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
The restriction is 50k searcher per month if I remember correctly, so it 
shouldn't be that big of a problem. Also it would be a legal way to get the 
data ;)

Original comment by kipenros...@gmail.com on 23 Jul 2013 at 9:18

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
Also, the API isn't subject to changes as frequently, so no need to release 
fixes every time the page layout changes.

Original comment by kipenros...@gmail.com on 23 Jul 2013 at 9:19