[Bing Search API] Irrelevant/poisoned search results returned intermittently

Summary

SerpApi says its Bing Search API is intermittently returning irrelevant or poisoned search results, a problem it has observed over the last few weeks. The incident is currently in the investigating state, and the provider says its team is working on a fix on priority.

Written by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 from SerpApi's own updates.

What to do

• Check whether you use SerpApi Search API. Check your stack

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• Switch to another region or a fallback provider while it is open, if you have one.

  Otherwise back off retries and queue work, so you don't add load while it recovers.

• Watch SerpApi's own updates; this page re-reads them every minute.

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Updates from SerpApi 1

1. investigatingNov 6, 2026, 1:06 AM UTC

   We have been observing Bing return irrelevant/poisoned search results intermittently over the last few weeks. Our team is working on fixing this on priority. Apologies for the inconvenience caused due to this. We will be sharing further updates as more information becomes available.

   provider

Corrections

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