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Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025. (learn.microsoft.com)
submitted 1 month 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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[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 27 points 1 month 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 19 points 1 month ago

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

[–] hamsterkill@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 month ago

Thurott's article on this implies that "big customers like DDG will be unaffected". Though he also says information is scarce.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

So..... let's see what we can work with→

  1. Swisscows
  2. Mojeek
  3. Gibiru
  4. PriEco
  5. Wiby

I have no clue TBH, but there needs to be a community-funded initiative to have a (De)Centralized repository of search-indices

[–] PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Swisscows I don't believe has an index, Mojeek does.

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I've heard that Swisscows does, although you won't find any 18+ stuff.