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What’s stopping them from performing an offline IP location lookup and requesting location specific search results without sharing the IP with Microsoft?
by danskeren 7y ago
What’s stopping them from performing an offline IP location lookup and requesting location specific search results without sharing the IP with Microsoft?
- thekyle 7y agoI'm not sure if that is a feature that the Bing API supports. I couldn't find anything about looking up coordinates in the docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/bing-web-search/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/bi....
- danskeren 7y agoYeah their documentation is dreadful, but they could just append loc:countryCode to the query before making the API request: e.g. ‘attractions loc:dk’.. at least that works for me despite some people mentioning this filter is no longer supported. Not sure how DDG and other search engines that rely on Bing does it, but it’s certainly possible without sharing the users’ IP with Microsoft.