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Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

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Re: Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

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Bing has never been a relevant search engine to earn a reputation, in my opinion. Microsoft has a bad reputation, but I'd say it changed a LOT in the past 10 years and has earned back a non-negligible chunk of trust.

Bing does have a reputation, people know what Bing is, and generally it is not a positive impression. Microsoft can change that, but so can Google improve their reputation.

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Re: Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

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The best experience I've had so far is sort of asking for what I should be searching for. For example, starting a project in a new and unfamiliar domain. I tried searching for what I wanted and kept getting drowned in similar but unrelated responses. I explained what my problem was to ChatGPT and asked what the industry names and terms were. Using the response, my searches were instantly relevant.

It's even more helpful to configure webpack config.

I don't really get how it would be easier for this.

If you need a standard Webpack config that supports X, Y, and Z. There are tools that do this already much better than ChaptGPT (the Webpack CLI will do it for you).

If you need some esoteric config for your highly custom setup, I highly doubt that ChatGPT would be useful in anyway.

Re: Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

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Microsoft's lazy ass approach to a search engine may finally pay off!

Bing has actually gotten better in recent years. I like the results and UI, the integration with 365 makes it nice for work. I mainly use Duckduckgo and Startpage but sometimes Bing, especially in Edge.

Their strategy was just to copy as much as they could from the leading product and direct all their traffic there.

Re: Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

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I guess I'm old-fashioned. I'd prefer a search engine interface with all the bells and whistles for doing complex queries instead of relying on the search engine to guess what it is I really want to see. I would trust a technical interface with lots of options and boolean logic not to give me whatever the company behind it wants me to see instead of what's really out there.

Re: Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

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bing.com/new is supposed to work from their slides, but may not be live yet.

Is anyone having success with the https://bing.com/new link? I'm not seeing it, but I'm not sure if that's because I'm on a Mac (via both Chrome and the OSX version of Edge)

It wasn't working earlier for me, but is now. I'm using Firefox on a Mac in Los Angeles.

Re: Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

#577

The Edge integration announced today also looks very impressive. I chuckled at the thought that MS is probably about to make a daily Edge user out of me and a lot of other people, but of course Edge is Chrome under the hood now. So Google beat MS to browser market dominance, and now MS is using their browser as a platform to go after Google's core business. Neat. I think this tech is going to be transformative for ev…

I'm using Edge full time since it switched to chromium. Have absolutely no problems with it.

It’s my go-to browser for porn, and Bing is also the best porn search engine.

Re: Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

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Tiktok succeeded because it offered something that the public wanted. I don't know that a chat bot is something that the public wants. I know I have no use for it.

It is astonishing to me for someone to find no uses for it. We've been reading three custom made children adventure stories to our kids every night. My wife made custom black history month trivia, quizzes and posters I learned more about basic financial terms, music theory, caught up on concussion treatment and myriad other things We created quick rhymes for school And I feel there are astonishing things I haven't ev…

I spent hours on ChatGPT asking questions about black holes. Like really dumb ones. I learned a lot!

Re: Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

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Even if all this does is convinces people to try Bing for the novelty of using the ChatGPT features, it may cause a significant inroad to Google's dominance from whatever percentage then discover they are just fine with Bing as their search engine. Will be fascinating to see what happens.

Re: Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI

#580
Never under estimate Microsoft's ability to screw a "first mover advantage up" they have done this many times before. They really need to keep this thing focused and not try and use it to try and switch everyone to edge, push bing news, and install weird browser extensions....
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