[Bing Search API] `cached_page_link` sometimes missing for `organic_results`

[martin-serpapi]

A user reported that cached_page_link are missing for organic_results in the response from our Bing Search API. I was able to reproduce it in the Playground for some of the searches:

Playground | Inspect

The cached page links are available in the actual Bing Search engine:

Bing Search

The cached_page_link URLs are sometimes available in the response for the same search, after executing it multiple times with no_cache=true parameter:

Playground | Inspect

Intercom

[dsojevic]

Have spent a bit of time trying to dig into this and have been unable to replicate it at all today.

I managed to find the following tweet from a product manager at Microsoft/Bing a few months ago (screenshots below so you can see the context of the tweet) that has effectively confirmed that they've been experimenting with removing the link, so this behaviour seems to be in line with that.

It may just be worth indicating in our documentation that the link may be unavailable at times / may be removed without notice depending on if Bing makes it a permanent change or not.

Tweet:

[aciddjus]

Google removed it at the beginning of the year. Bing might be doing the same.