Microsoft will begin charging developers to use the API (application programming interface) for its Bing search engine, the company announced Thursday.

To justify these massive price increases, the Microsoft Bing Search API webpage states: “We periodically assess the value and pricing of our services to meet market demands and align the pricing ...

Every Web search in Brave Search is now served by its own index after removing all search API calls to Bing, which previously represented about 7% of query results.

Brave feared that this price hike would create undue pressure on search engines that depend on the Bing Search API, potentially disrupting their services.

Microsoft’s large investment in OpenAI has seen an expansion of AI in Bing. This appears to be reflected in new Bing API licensing.

Brave Search has been integrating the Bing API during its early stages but that's now over and it's going it alone. But its Google fallback remains.

UNITED KINGDOM, May 2, 2023/ EINPresswire.com / -- Changes to the price of Microsoft Bing’s application programming interface (API), which provides search results for a range of well-known ...

“By increasing the API prices to such a degree, Microsoft has decided pick to a fight with Google through changing the form of their search duopoly.