Required Parameters

The following parameters are required for all requests:

• SearchRequest.AppId Property (Bing, Version 2.0)
  
  
• SearchRequest.Query Property (Bing, Version 2.0)
  
  
• SearchRequest.Sources Property (Bing, Version 2.0)
  
  

Note
To get results from a given SourceType, you must specify it in a SearchRequest.Sources statement.

Optional Parameters

The following response fields are common to all source types:

• SearchResponse.Version Property (Bing, Version 2.0)
  
  
• Query.SearchTerms Property (Bing, Version 2.0)
  
  

The following response fields are specific to the RelatedSearch SourceType:

• RelatedSearchResult.Title Property (Bing, Version 2.0)
  
  
• RelatedSearchResult.Url Property (Bing, Version 2.0
  
  

For examples of requests and responses for this SourceType specific to a given protocol, see:

• JSON Implementation for RelatedSearch SourceType
  
  
• XML Implementation for RelatedSearch SourceType
  
  
• SOAP Implementation for RelatedSearch SourceType
  
  

For examples of code that sends a request that specifies this SourceType and parses the response, see RelatedSearch SourceType Code Samples.

For information about error messages, see Error Handling (Bing, Version 2.0).

Concepts