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Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025. (learn.microsoft.com)
submitted 2 months 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] 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Bing? People use Bing?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If you use DuckDuckGo, you're essentially using Bing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I did not know this. I find duckduckgo to be more useful than Google most times now. It's crazy how bad Google has become.

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

Qwant is also good. And it's building their own index together with Ecosia.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

qwant is region locked

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months 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/

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Brave bought their index. The other two did a PR announcement that they are gonna build one, you seen much else? Point very much still stands.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You don't? It is by far the best search engine for porn in existence, especially Bing Video.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

This is true. Omg. I forgot! I haven't searched for porn in so long! I just to live shows now.