diff --git a/functions/[[path]].js b/functions/[[path]].js
index 1aec285..2358a2e 100644
--- a/functions/[[path]].js
+++ b/functions/[[path]].js
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ export async function onRequest(context) {
       "surreal-db": "rate_limit",
     };
 
-    // First ensure namespace and database exist
     try {
       const initSql = `DEFINE NAMESPACE IF NOT EXISTS direct_img; USE NS direct_img; DEFINE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS rate_limit;`;
       await fetch(`${env.SURREAL_URL}/sql`, {
@@ -141,8 +140,14 @@ export async function onRequest(context) {
     return env.ASSETS.fetch(new Request(new URL("/bad.webp", url.origin)));
   };
 
-  const imageUrls = await braveImageSearch(query, env.BRAVE_API_KEY);
-  if (!imageUrls || imageUrls.length === 0) return await fail("Search Failed", `Brave API returned no results for: ${query}`, "question", 3);
+  let imageUrls = await braveImageSearch(query, env.BRAVE_API_KEY);
+  
+  if (!imageUrls || imageUrls.length === 0) {
+    context.waitUntil(notify(env, { title: "Brave Search Empty", message: `No results for: ${query}. Trying Bing Fallback.`, tags: "warning,mag", priority: 3 }));
+    imageUrls = await bingImageSearchFallback(query);
+  }
+
+  if (!imageUrls || imageUrls.length === 0) return await fail("Search Failed", `Both Brave and Bing returned no results for: ${query}`, "question", 3);
 
   const GLOBAL_DEADLINE = Date.now() + 20000;
   let imgResult = null;
@@ -212,6 +217,36 @@ async function braveImageSearch(query, apiKey) {
   return data.results?.map(r => r.properties?.url || r.thumbnail?.src).filter(url => !!url) || null;
 }
 
+async function bingImageSearchFallback(query) {
+  try {
+    const res = await fetch(`https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=${encodeURIComponent(query)}&safesearch=moderate`, {
+      headers: { 
+        "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
+        "Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"
+      }
+    });
+    if (!res.ok) return null;
+    const html = await res.text();
+    const urls = [];
+    
+    // Bing encodes the image payload inside HTML entity attributes and script tags
+    const regex1 = /"murl":"(https:[^&"]+)"/g;
+    const regex2 = /"murl":"(https:[^"]+)"/g;
+    
+    let match;
+    while ((match = regex1.exec(html)) !== null) {
+      urls.push(match[1].replace(/\\\//g, '/'));
+    }
+    while ((match = regex2.exec(html)) !== null) {
+      urls.push(match[1].replace(/\\\//g, '/'));
+    }
+    
+    return urls.length > 0 ? [...new Set(urls)] : null;
+  } catch (err) {
+    return null;
+  }
+}
+
 async function fetchImage(imageUrl, timeoutMs = 5000) {
   try {
     const res = await fetch(imageUrl, {