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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

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I 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?

Not since Google results became such garbage. Plus, the chats provide references. So easy to verify.

Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google

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I got access a while back, but haven't tried it yet. I don't have a windows machine to run Edge on.

FWIW Microsoft has Edge installers for Linux and Mac as well, I am using it on Debian

I'm running Edge on Arch, it works beautifully with wayland

Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google

#33

Maybe 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 se…

For those old enough to remember, it's exactly the reason why Google took Yahoo's place back when.

Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google

#34

I 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"

I'm fine with writing queries like "Where should I eat breakfast"

But I hate seeing the top half of the screen are ads for huge chains, and then the top results are blog posts about "Where are the top 10 places to eat in your city" and not a list of restaurant web pages.

Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google

#35

I 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?

Not since Google results became such garbage. Plus, the chats provide references. So easy to verify.

I love that Bing Chat actually links to references. It felt like something was missing from ChatGPT without it.

Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google

#37
Microsoft needs to integrate GPT into Windows, and make it available in every app and input box - in the mail app, in Discord, in browsers.

You would open Chrome, go to Hacker News, login, and say in the comment box - "GPT, please read this page and make a funny but insightful post about how GPT is a danger to all of us".

In the mail app: "make an excuse to the manager for why I will be late at work today".

Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google

#38

Maybe 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 se…

I love how Google mostly assumes now that I'm not looking for what I type into the search box.

If I search for something like "micropython html parser" I expect the top results to say "Missing: micropython ‎| Must include: micropython".

Yes Google, it was the first term I entered for a reason don't cha think?

Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google

#39

Maybe 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 se…

Sad but true. Google is the new altavista or yahoo.

Re: OpenAI tech gives Microsoft's Bing a boost in search battle with Google

#40

Maybe 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 se…

I just performed that search in Google and the top two results are links to PyPI and Snyk packages for micropython-html.parser. The third result is a link to python.org documentation for html.parser (not micropython).

Bing returns the result for PyPI and the one for the non-micropython python.org result.

I don't see a big difference here (except maybe me learning about Snyk through google and not Bing?).

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