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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.
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.
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
American company though. Not supporting that
Yeah I'm far too used to getting my search for free to pay for it. I'll fuckin' use chatgpt before I pay a subscription fee for that shit, even if it is a substantially better option.
Look at you having standards.
That's what I said before I used it, you can try it free for 30 days
I looked at it briefly, the only free option I saw was 100 free searches, which will not last your average user anywhere near 30 days. Shit that might not last me 3 days depending on what I'm doing.
I think you overestimate the average user
3 searches a day? Most people probably clear that just satisfying idle curiosity while sitting on the damned toilet.
This is why tech communities suck.
Too many shills and useful idiots trying to viral market bullshit.
Answers still Kagi. You get use of the basic tiers for all the big ai services.
You ever wanted to blacklist Quora from search results? You can do that too.
Not unless you have some way to get me a free lifetime membership, cause I've already made it pretty clear I'm not paying for it, and it wouldn't even let me use it without making an account when I checked it out.
Yeah buddy, i have answers i don't like too. Sucks sometimes.
It's less that I'm unhappy with the answer and more that I'm confused about why you would give an answer that I've already said I won't use. But if screaming into the void is your jam then you do you.
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.
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Try using Startpage.
That anonymizes Google results. It's Google, all the way down.
You think Microsoft gives you privacy?
They make billions on targeted ad revenue.
No, I use duckduckgo which is powered by Bing's API. Hence why I said other privacy-focused search engine.
Mullvad Leta is at least google minus the tracking.
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Thurott's article on this implies that "big customers like DDG will be unaffected". Though he also says information is scarce.
So..... let's see what we can work with→
- Swisscows
- Mojeek
- Gibiru
- PriEco
- Wiby
I have no clue TBH, but there needs to be a community-funded initiative to have a (De)Centralized repository of search-indices
Swisscows I don't believe has an index, Mojeek does.
I've heard that Swisscows does, although you won't find any 18+ stuff.
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