Submitted 11 hours ago by PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/search-apis/
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.
Unpopular opinion: Bing is better than Google in recommending Edge browser
I use Opera on for all my Bing-based Edge-recommending needs.
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?
Kagi
Brave Search has its own index
Shiiit, I really don’t want to go back to Google and all their sponsored/AI/tracking bullshit.
I can tell you confidently that I simply just won’t.
azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates?id=492574
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.
Oh and they suggest using ai instead
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.
I hope so, I don’t trust MAGA owned Brave.
Bing? People use Bing?
If you use DuckDuckGo, you’re essentially using Bing.
(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: www.mojeek.com
brave search, ecosia and qwant are all in various stages of having their own index
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 10 hours ago
Wonder what their reason for this is.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Something something AI
Libra@lemmy.ml 8 hours ago
Something something money.
AI is just the latest hype train they’re hopping in the hopes of making more money.