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Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025. (learn.microsoft.com)
submitted 7 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This is a very low-information announcement here but if this is taken to the extreme, it means that DuckDuckGo, Qwant, and many other so-called "alternative" search engines are going to either have to look for a new provider of results, or die.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Shiiit, I really don't want to go back to Google and all their sponsored/AI/tracking bullshit. Any other privacy-focused search engines out there that don't rely on this?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago

Brave Search has its own index

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Shiiit, I really don't want to go back to Google and all their sponsored/AI/tracking bullshit.

I can tell you with confidence that I simply just won't.