Only 15%? I would have expected 1000% increase or so
OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google
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Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google
#22That's cool in the short term, but it will be news when it's sustained. I logged in to Bing for the first time in forever to play with the AI some, but it didn't change my default search behavior of using Google, and now it's been easily two weeks since I went to Bing at all.
I got access a while back, but haven't tried it yet. I don't have a windows machine to run Edge on.
I'm just using this extension (I assume it just changes the UA): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bing-unchained-use...
Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
I got access a while back, but haven't tried it yet. I don't have a windows machine to run Edge on.
Thankfully changing your user agent is enough
successfully did this too. it's just a webapp, no real need to restrict to Edge except for Microsoft trying to push their products
Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google
#24Currently in Bing Chat:
- when scrolling down the page goes to Bing Search
- when typing predictive suggestions show up
I would use Bing even more if I knew how to disable these things. Does anyone know if this is possible?
Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google
#25I went right back to Google. It just had better results.
Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google
#26I feel like I’m missing out on something but other than to summarize text or fill pointless and lazy homework assignments I don’t have much of a use of gpt search. I think I have a trust issue with it and I rather get the raw result and process it myself than to believe that what this model “understood” is right. Anyone else feels this way?
Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google
#27I am one of the people that installed the Bing app because I was told that it would bump me up the waitlist for Bing Chat. I have not used it at all, and this is a reminder that I should probably uninstall it. I have access to ChatGPT, Bard, Alpaca etc. and there’s very little reason at this point to pretend to use Bing in order to get a crack at Chat.
ChatGPT doesn't have the browsing plugin enabled yet.
Bing can both search/browse the web and generate images interactively by using DALL-E API.
There are several drawbacks like a more strict system pre-prompt, 15 messages limit for conversations, and some kind of 24 hours ratelimiting if you use it too often.
Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google
#28Maybe because Google is actual trash and it went from being the best search engine to being an SEO-infested desert of a search, where your query is interpreted however they want not how you want.
Latest example from today - search for "micropython html parser" - 100% of results are about normal python not micropython, with the first 4 results being for generic paid programming courses. It's completely useless as a search engine now.
Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google
#29That's cool in the short term, but it will be news when it's sustained. I logged in to Bing for the first time in forever to play with the AI some, but it didn't change my default search behavior of using Google, and now it's been easily two weeks since I went to Bing at all.
If you use duckduckgo, you already use Bing results.
I rarely use google, and when I do it's from duckduckgo !g
I would immediately switch to bing by default if such bangs were supported as I sometimes need them for wikipedia !w or amazon !a
If there was a way they could be supported Edge address through a plugin or something, I would immediately switch to bing as that's what I already use 90% of the time (between duckduckgo frontend and requesting bing directly with !b )
Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google
#30I feel like I’m missing out on something but other than to summarize text or fill pointless and lazy homework assignments I don’t have much of a use of gpt search. I think I have a trust issue with it and I rather get the raw result and process it myself than to believe that what this model “understood” is right. Anyone else feels this way?
Yup, and maybe we're just getting old. There are still people on HN complaining about Google removing the OR and AND modifiers, meanwhile the younger generations write queries like "where should I eat breakfast today"