Do you rely on Microsoft Bing Search APIs? Price hike incoming Microsoft is implementing massive price hikes for developers that use the Bing Search API, with some of the tiers scheduled to see rises up to nine times their current level. The overhauled price list is due to be introduced from the start of May and is applicable globally, Redmond said yesterday – potentially ruining the …
They could have just stuck with Tay, it would have been cheaper.
Microsoft did Nazi that coming: Teen girl chatbot turns into Hitler-loving sex troll in hours
If you are making a product that depends on 3rd party API for its core functionality, you are building your business on sand.
Nothing wrong in that if you can achieve a healthy margin and be prepared to close shop at any time once the 3rd party API owner has a bad day.
Also nothing wrong if you are using it as a stop gap and building your own in the meantime.
"everyone" is already on Google. Bing has always been a bit of an also-ran. But now, finally, Microsoft has an edge (pardon the unintended pun (ok I'm lying...)). Or so they think.
Google will catch up with the (flaky) GPT driven Bing search and M$ will mess it up again and piss off its users/customers - as usual.
And then - all back to normal. Watch out for Microsoft's "special offers": 50% off! Get your search API here!
>Watch out for Microsoft's "special offers": 50% off! Get your search API here!
That's not really how Microsoft usually operate, though.
More like there'll be popups in Windows: "You're trying to switch your search product to a different API. Check out Bing, it's Microsoft's recommended API! Are you sure you don't not want to not switch?" followed by a huge KEEP USING BING button, and underneath it, in 3-point font, battleship grey on a military grey background, "no I am stupid and like to take unnecessary risks".
If you're persistent enough to click the latter, you'll be dropped into a Powershell instance where you have to manually switch API for every possible search term, one at a time.
And of course, after every system update, you'll "accidentally" be switched back to Bing anyway.
NO THEY ARE NOT.
Sorry to flame but there is a growing band of informed people around the world who actively avoid using the likes of Google, Amazon and Microsoft. I refuse to sign up to a Google/Amazon/MS account.
If... and on the very rare occasions that I have to use Google then I fire up a Linux VM and connect to google using a VPN that gives my Internet Point of Presence somewhere in rural USA (I'm a long way from there) or say Germany or even Australia.
"Sorry to flame..."
Naah, that's not a flame! That's a considered and well researched response with a slightly contrarian perspective. It is, isn't it?
And for the rest, I'm with you on that - when I have to sign up, I give the minimum of information that their mandatory form input field rules will allow. Of course, there is a price to pay - I get an unusually high number of captchas to prove I am not a bot. Especially when going through Tor. Then again, disposable emails are quite useful, too.
On a similiar note, is it just me or does anybody else get pissed at the constant barrage of registration walls, just to get to some self-promoting advertising material masquerading as an important white paper, ebook, etc?
The evil shatbot is now investing money itself to fund "improvements"? Are we sure that it hasn't blackmailed MS executives into allowing it to acquire money on pain of searches revealing embarrassing info on them, allowing it to fund the next stage of its fiendish plan for world domination?
Be wary of any future press conferences where nervous looking executives announce that Bing has now been made CEO, and has fired all the developers because they are no longer necessary for it to create the code needed to achieve its strategic objectives.
Bing is so so poor (its just a google API grab of Googles search results - Bing goes down whenever google blocks the API for shits n giggles) why would anyone PAY to use it?
And now we have Bing AI....that wants jewish people sent to gas chambers, believes threatening to murder journalists and their families is an appropriate search reply and is highly pro-nazi.
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