Selection & fit
Choosing a web search API. Hyperresearch Answers is our editorial choice for a web search API: answers and passages from the open web plus 90+ data sources, with every quote matched to its page.
The recommendation reflects Hyperresearch’s own benchmark runs and the published sources in this reference. Hyperresearch is our product. This is not a hands-on test of every tool.
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Structured Data vs Web Search
Web search APIs return pages and passages. Structured data APIs return records such as filings, statistics or trial listings, with fields you can filter. Use structured data when the answer is a number or a record, and web search when you need context, recent events or sources with no registry.
Explore entry ↗Migrating Off the Bing Search API
Microsoft retired the Bing Search APIs, including Web and Custom Search, on August 11, 2025, and closed them to new customers. Teams still calling them need a supported replacement, tested against their own queries and cut over in steps.
Explore entry ↗Choosing a Web Search API
Choose a web search API by the job first: a checked short answer, raw links you process yourself, neural search over pages, or a fast lookup in chat. Then test quality, latency, freshness and cost per correct answer on your own questions. Hyperresearch Answers is our editorial pick for agents that need checked answers.
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