diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/amazon.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/amazon.py
index e33f945748..28c42602e7 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/amazon.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/amazon.py
@@ -1221,7 +1221,9 @@ class Amazon(Source):
         matches = []
         se = search_engines_module()
         urlproc = se.bing_url_processor
-        for result in se.bing_search(terms, site, log=log, br=br, timeout=timeout):
+        results, qurl = se.bing_search(terms, site, log=log, br=br, timeout=timeout)
+        br.set_current_header('Referer', qurl)
+        for result in results:
             if abort.is_set():
                 return matches, terms, domain, None
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/search_engines.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/search_engines.py
index 76399c1af8..288e7c88ef 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/search_engines.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/metadata/sources/search_engines.py
@@ -129,12 +129,12 @@ def ddg_search(terms, site=None, br=None, log=prints, safe_search=False, dump_ra
     ans = []
     for a in root.xpath('//*[@class="results"]//*[@class="result__title"]/a[@href and @class="result__a"]'):
         ans.append(Result(ddg_href(a.get('href')), tostring(a), None))
-    return ans
+    return ans, url
 
 
 def ddg_develop():
     br = browser()
-    for result in ddg_search('heroes abercrombie'.split(), 'www.amazon.com', dump_raw='/t/raw.html', br=br):
+    for result in ddg_search('heroes abercrombie'.split(), 'www.amazon.com', dump_raw='/t/raw.html', br=br)[0]:
         if '/dp/' in result.url:
             print(result.title)
             print(' ', result.url)
@@ -177,12 +177,12 @@ def bing_search(terms, site=None, br=None, log=prints, safe_search=False, dump_r
         cached_url = 'http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q={q}&d={d}&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w={w}'.format(
             q=q, d=d, w=w)
         ans.append(Result(a.get('href'), tostring(a), cached_url))
-    return ans
+    return ans, url
 
 
 def bing_develop():
     br = browser()
-    for result in bing_search('heroes abercrombie'.split(), 'www.amazon.com', dump_raw='/t/raw.html', br=br):
+    for result in bing_search('heroes abercrombie'.split(), 'www.amazon.com', dump_raw='/t/raw.html', br=br)[0]:
         if '/dp/' in result.url:
             print(result.title)
             print(' ', result.url)
@@ -220,12 +220,12 @@ def google_search(terms, site=None, br=None, log=prints, safe_search=False, dump
         c = div.xpath('descendant::div[@class="s"]//a[@class="fl"]')[0]
         cached_url = c.get('href')
         ans.append(Result(a.get('href'), tostring(a), cached_url))
-    return ans
+    return ans, url
 
 
 def google_develop():
     br = browser()
-    for result in google_search('heroes abercrombie'.split(), 'www.amazon.com', dump_raw='/t/raw.html', br=br):
+    for result in google_search('heroes abercrombie'.split(), 'www.amazon.com', dump_raw='/t/raw.html', br=br)[0]:
         if '/dp/' in result.url:
             print(result.title)
             print(' ', result.url)