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    copied!<p>I have an application that is using the new Bing API from the Azure Datamarketplace. I used to be able to query the Bing API using a simple syntax using OR AND, etc. That doesn't seem to work in the new API.</p> <p>Old syntax:</p> <p>"Jacksonville Jaguars" OR "NFL Jaguars" OR "Atlanta Falcons"</p> <p>That would give me a query with any of those phrases (I am making a rt_Sports query for news).</p> <p>I am calling HttpEncode on the query first, but am still not getting results. It works if I remove all the " marks, but then I am getting results sometimes for news about Falcons and Jaguars (the animals)... Not what I wanted.</p> <p>Anyone have any idea how you can form a query that takes multiple phrases?</p> <p>I have tried to not use the OR, not use the ', use a ", use the | instead of OR. All of these work against BING the website, just not in the API.</p> <p>I just tried this via Bing and got 36 Million results:</p> <p>NFL Football | Seattle Seahawks | New York Giants | Dallas Cowboys | New Orleans Saints | New England Patriots | Jacksonville Jaguars</p> <p>Same thing in the API returns 0.</p> <p>I got an email from a friend who I also emailed this question out to and his thought was that I was going about it wrong. That there should be a way to form a LINQ query off the Bing object with multiple where clauses.</p> <p>But I don't see how that would be possible. You allow a BingSearchContainer and then call the News method on the container. The News method has only a single Query parameter.</p> <pre><code>var bingContainer = new Bing.BingSearchContainer(new Uri("https://api.datamarket.azure.com/Bing/Search")); bingContainer.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(App.BingAPIAccountKey, App.BingAPIAccountKey); string unifiedQuery = "NFL Football | Jacksonville Jaguars | Atlanta Falcons"; var newsQuery = bingContainer.News(unifiedQuery, null, "en-US", "Strict", null, null, null, "rt_Sports", "Relevance"); newsQuery.BeginExecute(BingNewsResultLoadedCallback, newsQuery); </code></pre>
 

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