Microsoft shuts off Bing Search APIs and recommends switching to AI

Microsoft is shutting disconnected entree to its Bing Search results for third-party developers. The bundle shaper softly announced the change earlier this week, noting that Bing Search APIs volition beryllium retired connected August 11th and that “any existing instances of Bing Search APIs volition beryllium decommissioned completely, and the merchandise volition nary longer beryllium disposable for usage oregon caller lawsuit signup.”

This abrupt removal of the Bing Search APIs volition interaction third-party app developers and rival hunt engines that pat into Microsoft’s hunt results to powerfulness their services. Microsoft is present recommending that developers usage “grounding with Bing Search arsenic portion of Azure AI Agents” arsenic a replacement, which lets chatbots interact with web information from Bing.

Wired reports that immoderate large customers of Bing’s APIs volition clasp entree to the work aft the August 11th cutoff. DuckDuckGo uses Bing to powerfulness its hunt engine, and it has confirmed that it volition inactive person access. Other smaller developers won’t beryllium truthful lucky, though.

Microsoft’s determination to chopped disconnected entree to Bing Search APIs comes aft the institution has been hiking prices to entree the information successful caller years, and conscionable a week earlier Microsoft’s large Build developer conference. It besides comes conscionable days aft the US Department of Justice asked a tribunal to split up Google’s advertisement tech empire.