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Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025. (learn.microsoft.com)

submitted 10 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] 25 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Wonder what their reason for this is.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Something something AI

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago

Something something money.

AI is just the latest hype train they're hopping in the hopes of making more money.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 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] 4 points 5 hours ago

Kagi

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

Brave Search has its own index

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Unpopular opinion: Bing is better than Google in recommending Edge browser

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I use Opera on a Mac for all my Bing-based Edge-recommending needs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

Edge: when getting molested by sundar the creep ain't enough

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates?id=492574

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/pricing

So all tiers are getting discontinued.. Unless there is an unlisted custom tier? It's hard to imagine duckducgo only processing 250 requests per second. But then maybe that is enough and didn't they make their own index anyways? Maybe that was to ease the load

Oh and they suggest using ai instead

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 hours ago

DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Qwant, Ecosia... the last two have been working together to make their own index, hopefully it's going to be usable by then.