Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services - Third Edition

Adding a custom search

Bing Custom Search gives you the opportunity to add a powerful, tailored search experience to your own applications. It allows you to search specifically for topics you care about.

By using the portal at https://www.customsearch.ai/, you can create a custom view of the web.

Typical workflow

If you want to build a custom search web page, the following steps describe the typical workflow.

1. Create a custom search instance: This can be done at the portal linked in the previous section.
2. Add active entries: This is a list of sites that should be included in the search results.
3. Add blocked entries: This is a list of sites that should be excluded from the search results.
4. Add pinned entries: If any search term should have websites pinned ...