[HN Gopher] Microsoft reportedly orders chatbot rivals to stop u...
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       Microsoft reportedly orders chatbot rivals to stop using Bing's
       search data
        
       Author : mfiguiere
       Score  : 20 points
       Date   : 2023-03-25 20:21 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | Oras wrote:
       | To stop using Bing's search data in their AI tools.
        
       | rvz wrote:
       | > As noted by Bloomberg, Microsoft licenses out Bing's search
       | data to several search engines, including DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, and
       | the AI search engine You.com. While DuckDuckGo, for example, uses
       | a combination of Bing and its own web crawler to provide search
       | results, You.com and Neeva also pull some of their results from
       | Bing, helping to conserve some of the time and resources that
       | come along with crawling the entire web.
       | 
       | So the search engine lock-in begins. If a search engine uses Bing
       | for search results whilst also using it to scrape for their AI
       | chatbot(s), it is against Bing's ToS and their access to Bing
       | will be revoked.
       | 
       | Either use Bing as a search engine, no scraping on its data for
       | your AI chatbot or lose access to Bing and scrape elsewhere.
        
       | anigbrowl wrote:
       | I guess they missed being the center of attention like they were
       | during periods of more vigorous antitrust enforcement.
        
       | nohat wrote:
       | This is a shame as bing search api was much better documented,
       | and supported (at least as of a few years ago). Google switched
       | api specs and dropped features at an even faster rate than their
       | consumer facing products.
        
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