Bing’s API is down, taking Microsoft Copilot, DuckDuckGo and ChatGPT’s web search feature down too
"In this particular case, it’s interesting to see the increasingly important role of Bing’s API. While Google still dominates when it comes to web search, many services are now reliant on Bing’s API."
Relying on one company doesn't seem like a smart idea.
#AI and #MachineLearning models are shifting a number of core assumptions on which the various Web stakeholders have been relying on for years.
In this presentation at the @w3c member meeting in #Hiroshima 🇯🇵, @dontcallmeDOM reviews the systemic impact and possible mitigation the Web community should consider to ensure the long term prosperity of the #Web in the face of these changes.
Yes CSS is more then only a design and colors and have today cool functions to select specific HTML components and pleace web designer think in different screen spaces.
Ne du, so was wie #DuckDuckGo, #StartPage & #Ecosia liefern Daten ihrer Crawler wie #Bing (M$) und/oder #Google. Pseudonymisiert ist nicht anonym, denn die sind vertraglich dazu verpflichtet.
🧵 …wenn ihr nach wissenschaftliche Web-Dokumente sucht, kann ich euch neben den oben erwähnten Suchmaschinen noch @base empfehlen, denn diese ist genau darauf optimal fixiert. Dabei sind ~60% sind volltextlich frei zugänglich von über 11'000 Datenlieferanten.