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Bing is dieing and DuckDuckgo depends on it

Over the years, the APIs fueled both general search engines such as DuckDuckGo, Brave, and You.com, as well as more specialized tools used by companies and internet researchers to search specific corners of the web. The quality of the results often wasn’t as high as standard Google search results, but Google’s comparable API has a number of limitations that has made it unattractive to would-be rivals.

After ChatGPT debuted in 2022, Microsoft increased prices for the Bing APIs by as much as 10 times, citing upgrades it had made to the quality of results. That prompted many users to begin investing in their own indexes of the web, an exercise that had become less costly over time thanks to new technologies. The person familiar with the matter estimated that the Bing APIs still continued to have thousands of customers.

https://www.wired.com/story/bing-microsoft-api-support-ending/