Microsoft has announced it is to retire access to its Bing Search APIs on 11th August. “ Any existing instances of Bing ...

Recently, Microsoft quietly announced its plan to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs (application programming interfaces).

Microsoft is limiting access to tools that boosted its rivals, but larger customers like DuckDuckGo say they won’t be ...

Third-party app developers won’t be able to access Bing Search data from August 11th onwards. Third-party app developers won’t be able to access Bing Search data from August 11th onwards.

Microsoft will shut down Bing Search APIs by August 11, urging developers to switch to AI-based solutions through Azure AI Agents ...

The increasing costs and uncertainties around Bing’s API access were significant motivators ... As Brave keeps coming up with new ideas, it could change how we find information online.

According to Bloomberg, Microsoft also told two unnamed search engines that it doesn’t want their chatbots to leverage its index in March, threatening to remove their API access. Companies ...

threatening to remove their API access. Microsoft’s new price tier for customers “presenting Bing API results with their own large language models” starts at $28 per thousand requests. Quite evidently ...

So if you were a casual, non-subscribing Bing Chat user, the only difference is the name and domain change. You still get access to OpenAI's GPT-4 and DALL-E 3 models, but you must be mindful ...

Now it seems search results are loading properly. This outage also affected Bing’s application programming interface (API), which means that other services that relied on Bing weren’t working ...