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Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine
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Re: Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine
#521) "It will reportedly be known as Project ‘Magi’ and is said to provide a far more personalized experience than the company’s current service." That is super creepy. Google knows a lot about you, and now it is using that knowledge to really put you in a filter bubble. Imagine this plus engagement metrics. 2) So much for that monopoly a lot of people thought Google had. Turns out they're still as exposed to market pr…
The last thing anyone should ever want from a search engine is different results from the next person over.
I'm actually not entirely sure about that. For example, if I know a lot about a particular topic and the search engine knows that I know a lot about that particular topic, then when I search for something, it should give me a condensed result and not introductory-level material. Or if I have certain preferences for the format of material I'm given. For example, if I prefer college-level outline material versus eighth-grade reading level text, for example.
So it seems entirely reasonable to me that you would get different results.
If I had a personal assistant that was performing the search for me, I would expect customized results from them. I don't know why I should not expect the same from a machine.
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#53What's Sundar's goal for Google? They seem to be aimless since he took the helm.
Sundar is a McKinsey consultant who is very pleasant and agreeable and can keep a boat steady while maximizing shareholder return. Unfortunately there isn’t much innovation happening .
Google needs a Larry Page or Musk like character back at the helm.
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#55I've been using Bing for a few weeks now it is not all the way there yet but so far the experience is more gratifying than Google. The results seem to be better and there is less ads on top the search results. Their AI integration is also well accomplished. No complains there...
I use bing via duck duck go and it's total dog shit but I don't want to use Google so I just suffer through it. And even Google's 1st page results are pretty useless nowadays
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#56What's Sundar's goal for Google? They seem to be aimless since he took the helm.
>They seem to be aimless I would argue for 95% of Google's existence they have been pretty much aimless.
Right. They develop services, see which ones attract a large audience, and close those that don't. https://killedbygoogle.com.
I like it, personally speaking. Google has a lot of power, and it's an approach that minimise the use of that power to push people around.
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#57I always thought that Google made a big blunder by not encroaching upon Microsoft's turf more aggressively. They should have tried to make a better desktop OS (just buy Canonical or something) and then eat into Microsoft Office market share by releasing Google Office for Desktop. Wait for an opportunity to emerge and then pounce. This is precisely what Microsoft did to Google. They had Bing running in the background…
I can't tell if your sarcasm is top notch, but isn't Chromebooks and GSuite (docs, sheets, slides) exactly the thing you describe?
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#58I've been using Bing for a few weeks now it is not all the way there yet but so far the experience is more gratifying than Google. The results seem to be better and there is less ads on top the search results. Their AI integration is also well accomplished. No complains there...
I'd use Bing's chat feature if it wasn't only available on Edge... I can't seem to get any Chromium browsers working well on my Fedora install. I already want to use Microsoft's search engine, why do they need me to use their browser too?
There’s an extension that enables it for all browsers
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'd use Bing's chat feature if it wasn't only available on Edge... I can't seem to get any Chromium browsers working well on my Fedora install. I already want to use Microsoft's search engine, why do they need me to use their browser too?
When MS switches on bing chat on chrome it will be a huge blow to google
Doubt it. Not enough people even know about it or will discover it to be a "huge blow" to google
Re: Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine
#60This is basically Samsung asking Google to pay up. Google needs to pay Apple / iOS for Default Search Engine, and paying Samsung for staying on Android with Google Search. Basically Google is being squeezed left and right. So the only way to increase revenue or profits to satisfy the money they spend on Apple and Samsung? More Ads on Youtube and Google Search. The more Ads they serve, the worse UX they have. All whil…
google still owns android
True, but Android is open-source and suppliers can replace default search engine - and other services - on it...