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Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025. (learn.microsoft.com)
submitted 12 hours ago by PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 28 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Wonder what their reason for this is.

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 42 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Something something AI

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 8 points 10 hours ago

Something something money.

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

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 hours ago (5 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?

[–] toastmeister@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 minutes ago

You think Microsoft gives you privacy?

They make billions on targeted ad revenue.

[–] philpo@feddit.org 1 points 41 minutes ago

Mullvad Leta is at least google minus the tracking.

[–] mooncake@lemm.ee 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Kagi

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

Yeah I'm far too used to getting my search for free to pay for it. I'll fuckin' use chatgpt before I pay a subscription fee for that shit, even if it is a substantially better option.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

What's the alternative? I guess you can use chatgpt or whatever as a sort of search engine? shrug

[–] skynet@feddit.cl 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Brave Search has its own index

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

Is that something built into the browser? i dropped Brave when I heard Google was forcing the adblock-gimping shit in Manifest V3 into Chomium. Also I was never entirely keen on their crypto-hawking bullshit.

[–] kaeurennetwo@lemmy.world 26 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

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

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 3 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 13 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 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

[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 12 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 hours ago

I hope so, I don't trust MAGA owned Brave.