Disappointing, but I understand. I use the Bing APIs, probably only 4K to 5K calls per year, but useful. I don't think it is worth $40/month to me.
Same here. I wish they had a free quota of around 1-2K calls per month.
Microsoft will charge $40/mo for 20K queries for access to the Bing Search API
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Re: Microsoft will charge $40/mo for 20K queries for access to the Bing Search API
#12This is too bad. The Bing API was a great service. I wish they would keep a free plan for hobbyists. A side project of mine is a search engine for coders (www.gigglebang.com) which I'll now have to take down or put ads on.
I am with you there. http://searchco.de/ uses the Bing API as a fallback when the main index cannot find anything. I was halfway through blending the results but will now have to fall back to my own indexing.