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Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025. (learn.microsoft.com)
submitted 7 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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[โ€“] PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

(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/

[โ€“] Blisterexe@lemmy.zip 1 points 54 minutes ago

brave search, ecosia and qwant are all in various stages of having their own index