Bing Search API get few results

Andrea Antonaci 1

Hello, i'm performing a call on the bing search API.
On the first call (count=50,offset=0) i get an estimatedtotalmatches of about 3000 but when scrolling through pages increasing offset by 50 each time when i reach offest 300 i can't get any more results. is there a parameter to avoid this limit? I've already tried with queries with far more results(like 300/400k) but only got few hundreds results.
thanks in advance

romungi-MSFT 42,206 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2022-08-25T06:28:02.803+00:00

@Andrea Antonaci Total estimated matches is an estimated number (not exact) of webpages that are relevant to the query. It is expected that the number might differ between API calls. It is also expected that the number would change as you page through the results (using the offset parameter).

Also, The Bing Web Search API returns search results that can include webpages, images, videos, and news. When you page through search results from the Bing Web Search API, you are paging only WebPages, and not other answer types such as images or news. Search results in WebPage objects may include results that appear in other answer types as well.

Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/Bing-Web-Search/paging-search-results#paging-through-search-results

A similar query was posted by a user recently. I hope this could help.
Andrea Antonaci 1 Reputation point

2022-08-25T09:03:23.95+00:00

I'm ok with that, but I can't believe that a very common query with results in the millions range gets 300 results because of a wrong esteem