In VisualSearch, where to get the services : Bing Resources or Cognitive Services

PL Yap 26 Reputation points
2022-06-28T10:23:54.513+00:00

In the documentation for VisualSearch, we are asked to create a service for Cognitive Services :
But then we are also told that we can access VisualSearch from Bing Resources.
I have create a service for Bing Resoures which can do image search.
Do I have to create another service for Cognitive Services?
I am confused.

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  1. YutongTie-MSFT 47,991 Reputation points
    2022-06-28T21:20:19.063+00:00

    Hello @PL Yap

    Thanks for reaching out to us for this issue. Post 10/30 /2020 Customers will not be able to create new Bing Resources as Cognitive Resources, any new resource will need to be created as Microsoft Bing Resource. Existing Bing Search Instances will be supported up to next 3 years. i.e. existing cognitive customers can transition to new Bing Resources any time before that.

    I think the document you are referring to is outdate, is this one you are referring to? - https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/rest/api/cognitiveservices/bingvisualsearch/images/visual-search

    I will reach out to the content author to update the document to avoid more confusion, many thanks for reporting this to us.

    Regards,
    Yutong

    Please kindly accept the answer if you feel helpful to support the community, thanks a lot.