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Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025. (learn.microsoft.com)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Look at you having standards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's what I said before I used it, you can try it free for 30 days

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think you overestimate the average user

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

3 searches a day? Most people probably clear that just satisfying idle curiosity while sitting on the damned toilet.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

This is why tech communities suck.

Too many shills and useful idiots trying to viral market bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah buddy, i have answers i don't like too. Sucks sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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.