The rise and fall of Microsoft’s new Bing
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The rise and fall of Microsoft’s new Bing
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#3Bing Search is actually not bad if you use it through duckduckgo. It has much less ads than Google and seems to deliver better search results on the first page (mainly because Google's results are now mostly paid ads, not real results)
But I'd never use it directly. Before I'll even try their new chatbot someone will have to offer a privacy condom service for it like what duckduckgo does for search.
Always use protection when dealing with partners of questionable integrity :)
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#4It's too soon to call it the fall. The chatbot is surprisingly effective. They've been fixing it so it's become less effective, but I imagine over time there will be variations.
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#5Let the dream be alive
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#6Totally fair and objective conclusion after one week by someone who’s totally not engaged in a crusade against deep learning
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#7Totally fair and objective conclusion after one week by someone who’s totally not engaged in a crusade against deep learning
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#8I don't know if it's just me but Bing and Google feel very corporate in their design. Overload of information, often not relevant and a lot of links and unnecessary things on the screen that distract you.
I so prefer Brave Search, DuckDuckGo, Startpage over these. Using the alt-tech is like moving from a polluted city to the calm mountains of Switzerland. Everything just makes more sense and is easier to find.
Brave Search in particular has been surprisingly amazing. I never thought I could leave Google but I haven't had the need for Google Search in a year and that speaks volumes. Going to Google these days is like recalling a really bad memory, it's awfully bloated.
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#9I switched 100% to edge now with Bing search as my default page. I use this URL https://www.bing.com/search?q=1&showconv=1, that q=1 is arbitrary cause It doesn't seem to work without the q.
I also point the home button to the same page.
But since I can't customize the new tab page URL, I just personalized it and turned off all default content and ads in the settings.
Its super clean now with just the search bar. People are using Bing chat for entertainment, and you get silly articles like this. I use it for productivity and programming along with ChatGPT Plus. Its soo empowering!
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#10Call it a fall when people stop using it, not when it fails on some queries.
ChatGPT is very effective as long as you keep in mind that this is not a sentient all knowing being. Being wrong sometimes is not a bing deal because people being wrong on the internet is old as the internet.
Also, if people were going to stop using it when it acts as a passive aggressive drama queen people wouldn't be using Reddit, Twitter or Meta properties too.