InstantAnswer SourceType (Bing, Version 2.0)

The InstantAnswer SourceType enables you to get single, authoritative answers to questions such as:

What is 789*12?
What is the value of x in 19x=63?
How many seconds are in a year?
What does “salient” mean?

Request Parameters

Required Parameters

The following parameters are required for all requests:

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

Optional Parameters

The following optional parameters are applicable to this SourceType.

Response Fields

The following response fields are common to all source types:

The following response fields are specific to the InstantAnswer SourceType:

Content Types

Depending on the value you specfy for SearchRequest.Query, the InstantAnswer SourceType returns a response containing either the Encarta or the FlightStatus ContentType. For examples of requests and responses of these requests and responses specific to a given protocol, see:

Code Samples

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