Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025.
Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025.
Official developer documentation for Bing Search Services. Learn how to build web-connected apps and services that find webpages, images, news, videos, and more without advertisements.
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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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.
I hope so, I don't trust MAGA owned Brave.