Microsoft recommends using publicly available real-time web data when building answers with large language models. However, Grounding with Bing Search is not a real alternative to the Bing Search API.

Microsoft is now shutting down this service, with “any existing instances” being “completely” shut down on August 11 of this year. Bing Search APIs will be retired on August 11, 2025.

According to StockMKTNewz, Microsoft (MSFT) is shutting off access to its Bing Search results for third-party developers, as reported by The Verge on May 15, 2025. This move could disrupt AI-driven ...

Microsoft’s move to cut off access to Bing Search APIs comes after the company has been hiking prices to access the data in recent years, and just a week before Microsoft’s big Build developer ...

Microsoft, which testified that the quality of Bing results has been hampered by limited usage and data, may be one of the first companies to line up for access.

Microsoft is going to do away with the Bing Search and Bing Custom Search APIs as of August 11, 2025. Microsoft posted a notice on its API documentation pages with this news.

Brave Search, which was launched in June 2021, initially relied on Bing for a portion of its search queries. However, over time, this reliance has been gradually reduced.

Several search engines and programs relying on Bing's API, including DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Microsoft Copilot, and ChatGPT Plus, are facing outages due to a Bing API issue.

Bing makes Microsoft money, if not quite profit yet. It's in Microsoft's interest to keep its search index stocked and API open, even if its focus is almost entirely on its own AI chatbot version ...

Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, was working improperly for several hours on Thursday in Europe. At first, we noticed it wasn’t possible to perform a web search at all.