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Re:Microsoft will charge $40/mo for 20K queries for access t... by nextparadigms on Thursday April 12, 2012 @01:30PM (#3833366)
Let's see what happens to DuckDuckGo now, since it's dependent on Bing.
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Re:Microsoft will charge $40/mo for 20K queries for access t... by zackfern on Thursday April 12, 2012 @02:35PM (#3833641)
DuckDuckGo uses more than just Bing for it's search backend [1], however I wonder if their other sources are enough to compensate for the potential loss of Bing.

[1] http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...

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Re:Microsoft will charge $40/mo for 20K queries for access t... by rbanffy on Thursday April 12, 2012 @03:06PM (#3833753)
This is an important lesson about basing your business on someone else's APIs.

I am confident, however, the folks at DDG planned for events like this.

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