replace bing grounding in azure ai foundry with serpapi!
i needed web search in an ai agent. sounds simple. it's not anymore. microsoft killed the standalone bing search api in august 2025. if you had an app calling it, it just stopped working. the official replacement is "grounding with bing search" inside azure ai foundry. i tried it, got frustrated, and ended up with serpapi instead. here's why. the foundry way you create a bing grounding resource in azure, connect it to your foundry project, add it as a tool to your agent. the agent…
