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--- help:search_engine_key [2012/01/17 18:24] – [Where's my AppId?] eros
+++ help:search_engine_key [2012/04/19 10:32] – [Why do I need an AppId?] eros
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 ====== Bing AppId ======
+==== Soon BootCaT will stop working! ====
+Please read this [[news:important announcement]].
 ==== Why do I need an AppId? ====
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 On August 5, 2011 version 0.6 of the BootCat front-end (which includes version 0.16 of the toolkit) was released. Starting from this version, the [[http://www.bing.com/|Bing]] search engine is used to retrieve URLs. Bing's service is not as generous as the one the now defunct Yahoo Search API used to provide, but it's the next best thing: you can use the service for free but an [[help:search_engine_key#what_s_an_appid_and_how_do_i_get_one|AppId]] is required for the system to work. To obtain an AppId you just need to register (for free) on the Bing website.
-We realise this is not ideal, but there's really no alternative (that we know of, if you know of an alternative, please [[http://bootcat.sslmit.unibo.it/?section=contacts|contact us]]): Google and Yahoo now require paid accounts to provide the kind of service BootCaT needs, Bing is free (at least for now).
+We realise this is not ideal, but there's really no alternative (that we know of, if you know of an alternative, please [[http://bootcat.sslmit.unibo.it/?section=contacts|contact us]]): Google and Yahoo now require paid accounts to provide the kind of service BootCaT needs, Bing is free (at least for a little longer, [[news:important_announcement|see this announcement]]).
 ==== BootCaT and Bing are two very different things ====