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Microsoft Will Soon Start Charging $40/Month And Up For Its Bing Search API

Ever since Microsoft launched the Bing API a few years ago, this service was available for free to developers who wanted to use data from the company’s search engine in their own products. Today, however, Microsoft announced that it will soon start charging for access to the Bing Search API. The subscription price will start at around $40 per month and will include 20,000 queries. As part of this change, Microsoft will also start using its Windows Azure Marketplace to manage access to this service.
While Microsoft announced these general changes today, it did not release any specific information about the transition timeline and pricing structure for users who need more than 20,000 queries per month.
According to the Bing team, this change will give developers “access to fresher results, improved relevancy, and more opportunities to monetize their usage of the Search API.”
Until now, free access to its API gave Microsoft’s search engine a bit of a competitive advantage, as Google’s free custom search API only includes 100 queries per day.
It seems like charging for API access is becoming quite the trend among the major search players, though. Google, for example, also just started charging its high-volume users for access to its Maps API. Google’s Translate API, too, transitioned to a paid model late last year.

Wolfram Presents an Idea to Make Search Engine Based on Search Habbit

Google launched Google Instant in 2010 for saving its user time durig search online. With Google Instant, user could get an automatic suggestion just as they type a search query, which Google claimed saved them two to five seconds per each search as there was no need to hit the “Enter” button in order to get the search results, but one can directly click on any of the matching suggestions to a query intended.

The idea is very interesting and useful. It taken into account a user’s search history, it could even be faster to generate search results for a query. This is something that Wolfram Alpha’s CEO, Stephen Wolfram also believes in. He wants the world ‘instant’ to have a literal meaning and application when it comes to search results generation. he is terming his concepts as”preemptive delivery of information” and his data company is working toward it.

Wolfram has found in his own personal experience that his personal analysis online has outlined data that he keeps track of in his life. He wants to come up with a computational history that will work as a human memory for a user who does not has to recollect everything at the time it is needed. But rather, a user would be informed about anything he or she wants to know, specially something that a person has been though already searching online.

Wolfarm Alpha’s computational search engine will deliver not just a list of links according to search queries, but would actually deliver complete reports about them. It is still to be seen what becomes of this idea.