Microsoft shuts off Bing Search APIs and recommends switching to AI
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Summary
Microsoft has notified developers that it is discontinuing access to its Bing Search APIs after August 11, impacting third-party app developers and rivals search engines.
The software giant has suggested that developers could use ‘grounding with Bing Search as part of Azure AI Agents’ as a replacement, enabling chatbots to interact with web data from Bing.
There has been speculation that the decision is a result of Microsoft’s recent price increases to access the data, as well as the DoJ’s recent call for Google’s ad tech empire to be split up.
However, search engine DuckDuckGo, which uses Bing to power its services, has confirmed it will still have access after the cut-off.