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- ghacks Tech News: Microsoft increases Bing Search API pricing by up to 1000%
It is unclear right now if third-party search engines like DuckDuckGo are impacted directly by the change. Large organizations may have custom agreements with Microsoft to utilize search APIs...
- Techzine Europe: Microsoft increases Bing API prices by 1000%, problems for DuckDuckGo?
In addition to Google and Bing, there are other search engines, often aimed at greater privacy. Think, for example, of DuckDuckGo. These search engines generally do not have their own index and crawlers, but use Google and Bing’s APIs. With this price increase, that may well cause problems. If DuckDuckGo sees its costs increase by 500%, it remains to be seen if they can stay afloat.
- Hacker News: Bing Search API Pricing Update
@nerdponx: I assume this is a deliberate strategic shift to push out a large portion of their customers while extracting more value from the remaining customers
@sebazzz: As DuckDuckGo uses Bing, is this the end of that search engine?
@NayamAmarshe: Seems like it. I don't see how the price increase could be sustainable for anyone. It's almost as if Microsoft is deliberately trying to sabotage them...
Bin mal gespannt, wie sich das entwickelt. Ab Mai wird man mehr wissen. Ich gehe mal davon aus, dass DuckDuckGo, Qwant und oben genannte über keinen ernst zu nehmenden eigenen Bot und Index für die Websuche verfügen, sonst würde/sollte man diese in den Serverlogs wahrnehmen.