Introducing PoshBing – The PowerShell library for Microsoft’s Bing Search Engine

Microsoft released their new search engine called “Bing” at, aptly named, https://www.bing.com .

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The Bing API has the concept of “ SourceTypes ” which are essentially data sources that you can search into. My script library provides access to the Image , InstantAnswer , News , MobileWeb , Phonebook , RelatedSearch , Spell , Web , Translation , and Video SourceTypes with the following functions:

Get-BingImage – Search the Image SourceType for a list of images including properties about the media files.

Get-BingInstantAnswer – Get single, authoritative answers to questions.

Get-BingNews – Provide news specific to a topic, a ___location, or breaking news.

Get-BingMobileWeb – Returns mobile web results, primarily relevant XHTML or WML pages.

Get-BingPhonebook – Enables you to view details about a business for which you are searching as if they were a phonebook entry.

Get-BingRelatedSearch – View searches that provide information in which you might be interested, based on your current search.

Get-BingSpell – Query alternative spellings for a given word or phrase.

Get-BingWeb – Get pages relevant to the queried terms.

Get-BingTranslation – Translate a term from one language to another.

Get-BingVideo – return a list of videos and their properties relevant to the query terms.

The whole article is here : https://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/Joe/archive/2009/06/03/introducing-poshbing-ndash-the-powershell-library-for-microsoftrsquos-bing-search.aspx

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2009
  Thanks for sharing the news about PoshBing! -Joe

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  July 15, 2010
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