Hi,

As you may be aware the BING search services in Omniscope (web search, news search, image search and video search) will no longer be available from the 1st August 2012. On or after this date any searches undertaken will no longer return results. This will effect any Omniscope files that use a "Web search", "News search", "Image search" or "Video search" either as a source or inside a DataManager.

The reason it will no longer be available is because Microsoft have moved all their search services to the Azure Marketplace.

In Omniscope 2.8 you WILL be able to continue to use these searches, but you will need to sign up to the Azure datamarket and create an application key, which you will need to enter every time you make a search. To obtain an application key:

- Go to https://datamarket.azure.com/ and signup.
- Subscribe to the Bing search API and create an application key. There are various subscription options available. Up to 5000 searches a month is free, but you need to pay a monthly fee if you need to run more searches.

After signing up you will need to enter your application key into the search options panel in order to execute a search. All the other options remain the same, but there may be some differences in the fields in the result data.

We will NOT be back-porting this change to Omniscope 2.7, so if you wish to continue using this functionality you must use Omniscope 2.8. Omniscope 2.8 is available now to Alpha partners. If you wish to use Omniscope 2.8 and you are not an alpha partner please contact us at support@visokio.com.

Please let us know if you need any help with any part of this process, or if you have any questions.