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Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs will be retired on 11th August 2025. (learn.microsoft.com)
submitted 1 day ago by PrivacyDingus@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Libra@lemmy.ml -3 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

What's the alternative? I guess you can use chatgpt or whatever as a sort of search engine? shrug

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

searx, because it queries multiple engines that are accessible, and perhaps google frontends (whoogle, libre y, and that new mullvad thing).

but for the past years I was exclusively using duckduckgo and it would be very said if it would go away :( I started recommending it to others too

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

people who use LLMs as search engine make me go 😨

my colleagues are doing it too, and I just want to yell at them that LLMs have no idea about reality, they will confidently tell you to eat glue

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

If you tell the o3 reasoning model to just search the web and give you the top results instead of answering your query it can actually be really useful for obscure queries. I was able to find specific spec sheets for my model of monitor when a google search would only produce the specs for basically any other model the manufacturer made. Even with the model number in quotes

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

At the end of the day, it’s still an agent searching the web like a person, and its results are only good if search is decent.