last night I received the distressing news that the Bing Search API will soon stop being free.
The BootCaT corpus creation toolkit (http://bootcat.sslmit.unibo.it/) relies on it. Since we would like BootCaT to remain completely free, we are looking for a (free) alternative to Bing.
We're currently considering switching back to Google, which offers 100 free queries a day (not ideal, but it should be sufficient for creating a corpus).
Does anyone know of any other alternative?
Regards,
Eros Zanchetta
-------- SSLMIT - University of Bologna (Forlė)