diff --git a/adapters/research/search_connector.go b/adapters/research/search_connector.go
index a3dc1d4..422cb3b 100644
--- a/adapters/research/search_connector.go
+++ b/adapters/research/search_connector.go
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ var ErrSearchRejected = errors.New("web search request rejected")
 var (
 	searchLinkPattern    = regexp.MustCompile(`(?is)<a[^>]+class=["'][^"']*result__a[^"']*["'][^>]*>(.*?)</a>`)
 	searchSnippetPattern = regexp.MustCompile(`(?is)<a[^>]+class=["'][^"']*result__snippet[^"']*["'][^>]*>(.*?)</a>`)
+	bingLinkPattern      = regexp.MustCompile(`(?is)<li[^>]+class=["'][^"']*b_algo[^"']*["'][^>]*>.*?<h2><a[^>]*>(.*?)</a>`)
+	bingSnippetPattern   = regexp.MustCompile(`(?is)<li[^>]+class=["'][^"']*b_algo[^"']*["'][^>]*>.*?<p[^>]*>(.*?)</p>`)
 	tagPattern           = regexp.MustCompile(`(?s)<[^>]*>`)
 )
 
@@ -69,6 +71,10 @@ func (c SearchConnector) Collect(ctx context.Context, request epistemics.WebSear
 	}
 	links := searchLinkPattern.FindAllSubmatch(body, c.limit())
 	snippets := searchSnippetPattern.FindAllSubmatch(body, c.limit())
+	if len(links) == 0 {
+		links = bingLinkPattern.FindAllSubmatch(body, c.limit())
+		snippets = bingSnippetPattern.FindAllSubmatch(body, c.limit())
+	}
 	if len(links) == 0 {
 		return nil, nil
 	}
diff --git a/deploy/docker-compose.prod.yml b/deploy/docker-compose.prod.yml
index 84e0169..9b1bfcc 100644
--- a/deploy/docker-compose.prod.yml
+++ b/deploy/docker-compose.prod.yml
@@ -195,8 +195,8 @@ services:
       LISTEN_ADDR: :8087
       RESEARCH_SOURCE_ROOT: /var/lib/research-sources
       RESEARCH_HTTP_ALLOWED_HOSTS: assistant.cin.su,git.cin.su
-      RESEARCH_SEARCH_URL_TEMPLATE: ${RESEARCH_SEARCH_URL_TEMPLATE:-https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q=%s}
-      RESEARCH_SEARCH_ALLOWED_HOSTS: ${RESEARCH_SEARCH_ALLOWED_HOSTS:-html.duckduckgo.com}
+      RESEARCH_SEARCH_URL_TEMPLATE: ${RESEARCH_SEARCH_URL_TEMPLATE:-https://www.bing.com/search?q=%s}
+      RESEARCH_SEARCH_ALLOWED_HOSTS: ${RESEARCH_SEARCH_ALLOWED_HOSTS:-www.bing.com}
       POSTGRES_HOST: postgres
       POSTGRES_PORT: "5432"
       POSTGRES_DATABASE: ${POSTGRES_DB:-assistant}
diff --git a/dev/ACTIVE_TASK.json b/dev/ACTIVE_TASK.json
index 17f3ba5..ab3c5e4 100644
--- a/dev/ACTIVE_TASK.json
+++ b/dev/ACTIVE_TASK.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "task_file": "dev/tasks/DEV-000275-semantic-web-research-routing.json",
-  "task_id": "DEV-000275",
+  "task_file": "dev/tasks/DEV-000276-research-search-provider-fallback.json",
+  "task_id": "DEV-000276",
   "task_revision": 1
 }
diff --git a/dev/tasks/DEV-000276-research-search-provider-fallback.json b/dev/tasks/DEV-000276-research-search-provider-fallback.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a446e7f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev/tasks/DEV-000276-research-search-provider-fallback.json
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+{
+  "task_id": "DEV-000276",
+  "task_revision": 1,
+  "architecture_revision": "ADR-0018",
+  "base_repo_revision": "c09be4c",
+  "risk_tier": "E",
+  "intent": "Replace the blocked default search provider with an available configured HTML search endpoint while preserving bounded parsing and truth-first failure behavior.",
+  "requirement_ids": ["research provider fallback", "no fabricated evidence", "optional external channel"],
+  "allowed_change_scope": {"modules": ["research-runtime", "deployment"], "paths": ["adapters/research/search_connector.go", "deploy/docker-compose.prod.yml", "tests/research_runtime/search_connector_test.go", "dev/ACTIVE_TASK.json", "dev/tasks/DEV-000276-research-search-provider-fallback.json", "docs/PROJECT_STATUS.md", "docs/evidence/**"]},
+  "forbidden_change_scope": {"paths": ["architecture/**", "security/**", "database/**", "contracts/**", "LLM-local/**"]},
+  "allowed_architecture_delta": {"new_cross_module_dependencies": 0, "new_canonical_owners": 0, "new_privileges": 1, "new_third_party_dependencies": 0, "new_database_owner_roles": 0},
+  "contracts": {"consume": ["existing WebSearchRequest and evidence chain"], "may_change": ["bounded provider response parsing"]},
+  "semantic_owner": "research runtime owns source collection and evidence preservation",
+  "canonical_state": ["existing epistemics source snapshot and citation chain"],
+  "state_transitions": ["configured provider response -> bounded excerpts", "provider challenge/no result -> unknown evidence"],
+  "side_effects_and_privileges": ["read-only HTTPS fetch to operator allowlist"],
+  "persistence_and_migrations": ["none"],
+  "failure_retry_restart": ["provider failure never becomes a supported finding"],
+  "assumptions": ["operator may override search URL and host allowlist", "search results are source excerpts, not generated answers"],
+  "acceptance_scenarios": ["Bing-style bounded result is collected", "unallowlisted endpoint is rejected", "provider challenge yields no evidence", "no entity-specific query logic exists"],
+  "required_tests": ["go test ./...", "go vet ./...", "preflight", "check-diff", "check-architecture", "independent", "git diff --check", "CI", "production research-runtime smoke"],
+  "terminal_gap_states": ["BLOCKED_BY_MISSING_CAPABILITY"]
+}
diff --git a/tests/research_runtime/search_connector_test.go b/tests/research_runtime/search_connector_test.go
index 08da9ad..8596fbc 100644
--- a/tests/research_runtime/search_connector_test.go
+++ b/tests/research_runtime/search_connector_test.go
@@ -39,3 +39,16 @@ func TestSearchConnectorRejectsUnallowlistedEndpoint(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("expected allowlist rejection, got %v", err)
 	}
 }
+
+func TestSearchConnectorParsesConfiguredBingStyleResults(t *testing.T) {
+	server := httptest.NewTLSServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`<li class="b_algo"><h2><a href="https://source.example">Source title</a></h2><p>Current source excerpt</p></li>`))
+	}))
+	defer server.Close()
+	request := epistemics.WebSearchRequest{Plan: epistemics.ResearchPlan{ID: "plan", Question: "q", SourceClasses: []string{"web-search"}, FreshnessPolicy: "current"}, PropositionKey: "p", Query: "q"}
+	connector := researchadapter.SearchConnector{EndpointTemplate: server.URL + "?q=%s", AllowedHosts: map[string]struct{}{"127.0.0.1": {}}, Client: server.Client(), MaxResults: 3}
+	candidates, err := connector.Collect(context.Background(), request, 10)
+	if err != nil || len(candidates) != 1 || candidates[0].Statement != "Source title — Current source excerpt" {
+		t.Fatalf("unexpected Bing-style evidence: candidates=%+v err=%v", candidates, err)
+	}
+}