Microsoft reportedly orders chatbot rivals to stop using Bing’s search data

I find this kinda amusing..

They trained their model on everyone's data, if you can scrap people, expect people to scrap you ;)

> 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.

I guess they missed being the center of attention like they were during periods of more vigorous antitrust enforcement.

Doesn't DDG pay MS for Bing results already? And their AI offering so far only summarises Wikipedia articles, the article is terribly unspecific, looks like MS is asking chatbots that include Bing data to pay or pay more

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.

To stop using Bing’s search data in their AI tools.