<ul><li>Microsoft may cut off access to its Bing search index data to rival search engines using it for their AI chat products.</li><li>Microsoft licenses the data to other search engine companies, including Yahoo and DuckDuckGo.</li><li>Smaller search engines would struggle to find an alternative if they were cut off from Microsoft's index.</li><li>Microsoft and Google are the only companies that index the entire web, and Google's limitations on the use of its index have led most other search engines to use Bing.</li></ul>

Microsoft threatens to restrict data from rival AI search tools

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