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by kriswill 4571 days ago
bing doesn't do SSL. Possible reasons:

1. Microsoft is cheap. SSL/TLS encryption of content requires a little more processing power. 2. The Bing API doesn't support HTTP/S. Could be a JSONP limitation. 3. Conspiracy Theory: Microsoft wants to fill up NSA's snooping storage archive, so they can sell them more Windose and SQL servers.