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   AI6YR Ben (ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 07:41:03 JST AI6YR Ben

   Uh oh

   The Verge: Microsoft shuts off Bing Search APIs and recommends switching to AI

   "Microsoft is shutting off access to its Bing Search results for third-party developers. The software maker quietly announced the change earlier this week, noting that Bing Search APIs will be retired on August 11th and that “any existing instances of Bing Search APIs will be decommissioned completely, and the product will no longer be available for usage or new customer signup.”

   ... Wired reports that some big customers of Bing’s APIs will retain access to the service after the August 11th cutoff. DuckDuckGo uses Bing to power its search engine, and it has confirmed that it will still have access. Other smaller developers won’t be so lucky, though."

   https://www.theverge.com/news/667517/microsoft-bing-search-api-end-of-support-ai-replacement

   #ai #aipocalypse #search

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 07:41:02 JST Rich Felker

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     @ai6yr LMAO this is gonna be hilarious when all the "independent underdog search engines" suddenly go dark because they were just reselling Bing shit. 🍿

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 07:52:07 JST Rich Felker

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     @ai6yr Hot take: Shutting off APIs for interoperability is bad. Shutting off APIs for "be a reseller of our monopoly so it looks like we have competition and aren't a monopoly" is extremely good and a lovely self-own for monopolists.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 10:17:51 JST Rich Felker

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     @ai6yr Just noticed: "Other smaller developers..." 🤡

     No, stop. These are not "developers". They're "resellers".

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