The sudden announcement by Microsoft to retire Bing Search APIs on August 11, 2025 represents a pivotal shift not only for developers but for the broader search ecosystem that has long depended on open web data access. Since their inception, Bing Search APIs have provided a critical...
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Microsoft’s recent announcement to retire the Bing Search APIs on August 11 marks a watershed moment in the evolution of search as a service and underscores the tech giant’s unyielding pivot towards artificial intelligence as the new backbone for information discovery. For years, Bing Search...
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For years, the question of why Google dominates the web search landscape has intrigued economists, regulators, and ordinary internet users. Recently, a novel academic study attempted to shed light on this issue by directly investigating user preferences and the forces driving market share in web...
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