X-Search-Location Header not working

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Thomas Watson 0

https://api.bing.microsoft.com/v7.0/news/search using this endpoint and using the header X-Search-Location I'm not receiving location based results when placing a lat, long, and a radius. User's image

Rohit Mungi 49,126 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-05-15T08:43:37.1366667+00:00

@Thomas Watson What is the search query that is used along with this header? As per the reference, Bing ignores this header if the query includes a location. For example, if this header reflects the user’s location as San Francisco, but the query is restaurants seattle, Bing returns restaurants located in Seattle, Washington.

Also, Lat/Long in the header isn’t a strict filter, but rather a signal. In addition, the API will take into account other signals like IP address, user intent, etc. Finally, if there are few to no results because of the chosen scope/query, it will try to return results to the user that is relevant.
Thomas Watson 0 Reputation points

2023-05-15T12:57:46.7766667+00:00

I used the search query police, while using a lat/long within Austin TX, my IP is in TX and the first few results were from Seattle or other areas not within Austin.

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Rohit Mungi 49,126 Reputation points Microsoft Employee Moderator

2023-05-15T08:43:37.1366667+00:00

@Thomas Watson What is the search query that is used along with this header? As per the reference, Bing ignores this header if the query includes a location. For example, if this header reflects the user’s location as San Francisco, but the query is restaurants seattle, Bing returns restaurants located in Seattle, Washington.

Also, Lat/Long in the header isn’t a strict filter, but rather a signal. In addition, the API will take into account other signals like IP address, user intent, etc. Finally, if there are few to no results because of the chosen scope/query, it will try to return results to the user that is relevant.
Thomas Watson 0 Reputation points

2023-05-15T12:57:46.7766667+00:00

I used the search query police, while using a lat/long within Austin TX, my IP is in TX and the first few results were from Seattle or other areas not within Austin.