[Bing Search API] Weird search results

[hilmanski]

On top of the empty result, I'm also seeing weird behavior on the Bing results.

After testing it both on playground and API, I think it only happens on our playground.

For example, when I'm searching for "Apple," it shows all the results from "discussion.apple.com" which is very different from the actual results on Bing.

Search results for "Nike"

ref for empty search: #2330

• Search Inspect Apple
• Search Inspect Nike

[schaferyan]

Odd, it's as if a "site:" parameter were injected into the query.

A customer reported this issue.

One of the examples also has empty HTML, but contains results in the JSON.

Here are some examples they shared:

Search Inspector 1 | Search Inspector 2 | Search Inspector 3

I was able to replicate their example after a couple retries in the Playground:

Playground

After testing it both on playground and API, I think it only happens on our playground.

It's also worth noting that this behavior is not specific to the Playground, as the Source User Agent for the customer's examples is Ruby.

The customer mentioned that they have been noticing this issue since at least 3 days.

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