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Diffstat (limited to 'searx')
| -rw-r--r-- | searx/engines/bing.py | 27 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/searx/engines/bing.py b/searx/engines/bing.py index 385c973cb..0f85c7036 100644 --- a/searx/engines/bing.py +++ b/searx/engines/bing.py @@ -1,10 +1,31 @@ # SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later # lint: pylint -"""Bing (Web) +"""This is the implementation of the Bing-WEB engine. Some of this +implementations are shared by other engines: -- https://github.com/searx/searx/issues/2019#issuecomment-648227442 -""" +- :ref:`bing images engine` +- :ref:`bing news engine` +- :ref:`bing videos engine` + +On the `preference page`_ Bing offers a lot of languages an regions (see section +'Search results languages' and 'Country/region'). However, the abundant choice +does not correspond to reality, where Bing has a full-text indexer only for a +limited number of languages. By example: you can select a language like Māori +but you never get a result in this language. + +What comes a bit closer to the truth are the `search-APIs`_ but they don`t seem +to be completely correct either (if you take a closer look you will find some +inaccuracies there too): +- :py:obj:`searx.engines.bing.bing_traits_url` +- :py:obj:`searx.engines.bing_videos.bing_traits_url` +- :py:obj:`searx.engines.bing_images.bing_traits_url` +- :py:obj:`searx.engines.bing_news.bing_traits_url` + +.. _preference page: https://www.bing.com/account/general +.. _search-APIs: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/search-apis/ + +""" # pylint: disable=too-many-branches, invalid-name from typing import TYPE_CHECKING |