The Bing API does allow you to pass an optional "Market" param to  
scope results to a desired language:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e475b65c-839a-4e15-929e-d37ff24f219c

> Does it work for minority languages? (Latin, Māori, Rarotongan, etc).


However, I do not see these languages on the list.

Cheers,
- EL


On May 2, 2010, at 3:27 PM, stuart yeates wrote:

> Eric Larson wrote:
>> Bing's API is very nice.  Among many fun services, it includes a  
>> JSON  "Did You Mean" service:
>> http://www.bing.com/developers
>> Bing wins for our use case.
>
>
>
> We currently block bing from crawling our website (because they  
> seemed to systematically lie about support for throttling in  
> robots.txt), but may have to re-evaluate if they're showing real  
> love to our user community.
>
> cheers
> stuart
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