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.
(some) alternative search engines use Bing because building an index is hard and the only project I know of doing this work from base is Mojeek: https://www.mojeek.com/
Bing? People use Bing?
If you use DuckDuckGo, you're essentially using Bing.
I did not know this. I find duckduckgo to be more useful than Google most times now. It's crazy how bad Google has become.
(some) alternative search engines use Bing because building an index is hard and the only project I know of doing this work from base is Mojeek: https://www.mojeek.com/
brave search, ecosia and qwant are all in various stages of having their own index