Microsoft Cuts Off Access to Bing Search Data as It Shifts Focus to Chatbots
Microsoft is Limiting Access to Tools that Boosted its Rivals, but Larger Customers Like DuckDuckGo Say They Won’t be Affected
Microsoft quietly announced earlier this week that it plans to shut down a long-standing tool supplying search engine startups and other software developers with a raw feed of Bing search results. The Bing Search APIs, or application programming interfaces, were once vital to many niche Google alternatives, but fell out of favor more recently as Microsoft hiked fees for the service and restricted its use.
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