Bing

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Bing is a web search service by Microsoft that you can use to implement delegated personal site search.

IndieWeb Examples

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IndieWeb sites that use Bing for delegated personal site search results.

None so far. If you add one, add yourself!

Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Features

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Bing Search has many typical web search engine features such

text search
image search
featured snippets

And a few advanced features like

date range search

Featured Snippets

Though initially named for showing a “snippet” of portion of a search result, Bing sometimes shows a generated snippet or other summary display, e.g. of calendar months.

E.g. here is a Bing search for: dec 2024 that shows a very readable generated snippet for the month of December 2024, before any “organic” search results or ads:

Criticism

2026-01-27 Neocities: Neocities Is Blocked by Bing (archived)

We have repeatedly attempted to resolve this through Bing’s official webmaster and support channels, and a few internal channels. Despite these efforts, Bing has declined to reverse the block or provide a clear, actionable explanation for it. At this point, we have exhausted all reasonable avenues for remediation except public disclosure.

Brainstorming

How to add personal site search

Bing search URLs are of the form:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=SEARCHTERM

A Bing site-specific search (e.g. for EXAMPLE.COM URLs) looks like this:

https://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3AEXAMPLE.COM+SEARCHTERM

If you want to use Bing for your personal site search, you can add a form like this to your site:

<search role="search">
 <form class="search" action="https://www.bing.com/search" method="get"><div>
 <input type="search" value="site:EXAMPLE.COM " name="q" style="max-width:15em"/>
 <button type="submit">Search</button>
 </div></form>
</search>

be sure to replace EXAMPLE.COM with your domain name!

Optional: change the max-width:15em to whatever width you want by default for your search box.