I am trying to use Bing Custom Search over certain Wikipedia pages. However, I am finding that there are many pages that don't return any results in Bing Custom Search (or on Bing Search).
For example, you can search Bing for site:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington name
and get a response back for that one web page. However, if you choose from any of the following dog breed names (really almost any dog breed from this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dog_breeds):
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_Fox_Terrier
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishu
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Cocker_Spaniel
as the site, searching site:{site_from_list_above} dog
(for example site:https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_Fox_Terrier dog
) there are no results. Am I searching wrong, or does Bing just not cache these pages?
To answer my own question: after talking with Bing Support and playing with the URLs myself, I found that there were two issues:
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishu
takes you tohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kishu
.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_(dog)
need to be replaced (this means “(“ with “%28” and “)” with “%29”, etc.). More details on escaping can be found here: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.aspHope this helps someone else!