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Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025.
(learn.microsoft.com)
Wonder what their reason for this is.
this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
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Something something AI
Something something money.
AI is just the latest hype train they're hopping in the hopes of making more money.
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?
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 with confidence that I simply just won't.
Unpopular opinion: Bing is better than Google in recommending Edge browser
I use Opera on a Mac for all my Bing-based Edge-recommending needs.
Edge: when getting molested by sundar the creep ain't enough
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
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.
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: https://www.mojeek.com/