Microsoft Threatens to Suspend AI Rivals from Using Bing Search Index

Microsoft threatens to suspend the Bing search index due to concerns about creating the similar AI chat products

Artificial Intelligence has just been incorporated into Microsoft's Bing search engine. While ChatGPT is driven by the same cutting-edge technology that OpenAI utilized to construct ChatGPT, the integration improves its search engine. This has caused a problem with competing search engines as they access it to create their AI chat products. In light of this, Microsoft threatens to suspend the Bing search index to its rivals as it may revoke access to its internet search data for competing search engines. According to the sources, Microsoft has informed at least two clients that utilizing its Bing search index to fuel their AI conversation tools violates their contract. Bing's search index is a map of the internet that can be searched in real-time.

According to sources familiar with the disagreement, Microsoft may cancel licensing that provides access to its search index, putting the AI chat products that depend on this information in danger. The unknown of which search engines leverage Microsoft's data for AI chat solutions.

The research also claimed that smaller search engines would need help finding an alternative if excluded from the index. Google and Microsoft are the only two companies that now index the whole web. Due to Google's restrictions on using its index, Bing is now used by almost all other search engines.

Even though the new Microsoft Bing is now accessible to all users, it is still in the preview stage, so users must register to try it. Microsoft is promoting its browser, which recently attracted 100 million active users daily, by making it exclusive to Edge. Microsoft stated that the new Bing would eventually be made available on other browsers.