Microsoft has just announced a huge update to Bing that overhauls the search engine to put AI-powered answers first.
This means that when a search query is entered, the results page will pop up with a primary AI-generated answer detailing all the curated sources that have been tapped to get that result. You’ll still get the traditional search results on the Bing search page, but they will be presented to the side of the AI-generated material (in a smaller right-hand panel).
This change is currently rolling out to a small number of Bing users, but it’ll presumably become more widely available before too long. From what we can tell there’s no obvious way to turn off the AI results if you wanted to do so.
I don’t use bing, I use duckduckgo. If they start prioritizing AI results, I’ll change search engines again.
So do I, so it’s worth taking note since ddg ist just a bing frontend
If the description provided by the article is accurate, and it remains so in the near future, that won’t be an issue for DDG users. All that DDG would need to do is to pull the results out of the side panel, instead of the central space.
I like how Kagi does it.
You can choose to have AI answer only when ending the search terms with a question markI’ve only ever known people to use Bing for porn (or because their workplace forces it on them). There are people who actually choose it?
Well, microsoft chooses bing for you sometimes
As an ex-bing user they also basically pay you in the form of rewards
To those who are curious enough, try setting up a web scraper. Search for innocuous, perhaps popular but simple words, in a Bing image search. Now look at all the URLs and start grouping by domains.
From my experience in the field, Bing has a problem with malicious websites w/ images that pop up in these results and serve fake AV alert phishing sites.
Stay curious y’all, data analytics can be fun and enlightening
The aurhor forget that they are many other search engines
Haven’t used it for such things lately but Bing used to be the search engine for porn. Like all engines I think they start out great but then start to tweak the results to basically only serve what they want you to see. Helping you find what you want to see becomes a distant in second.
Well, damn. Now I have to continue to not use Bing. Next thing you know I’ll have to continue to not use Google.
Will this help users on Bing with their number 1 desired search destination, Google?
Or their 7th most common destination, Bing?
Wait, it didn’t do that already?
I don’t use Bing anyway. 🤷
Everyone’s hating but honestly fair enough move.
On the whole, nobody uses Bing or takes it seriously anyways and so I guess they have to find their niche. It’s certainly not aimed at us (Lemmy/Fediverse users) who are generally more privacy conscious. If it can attract some mainstream users (e.g., Google users, people like your parents, etc) or stop some users from immediately switching their search engine to Google, then it might be a good decision for them.
Bing providing the exact same service as Google but worse clearly wasn’t working for them.
Bing?
