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[Pelta88]

This made me laugh out loud.

It's 'really the Google web': Microsoft CEO testifies about how hard it is to break into search

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified about competing with Google in digital search during the federal antitrust trial against Google in Washington, D.C.

www.cnbc.com

 

[German Hops]

not gonna lie, I've done this on more than one occasion, lol

 

[BennyBlanco]

 

[Kilau]

 

[March Climber]

I miss Windows Phone and Zune.

 

[Daneel Elijah]

When you go to bing with your PC and want to take chrome,Bing will repeatedly ask you not to. Great and funny video about it:

 

[StueyDuck]

I wonder what gave it away

 

[ResilientBanana]

When you go to bing with your PC and want to take chrome,Bing will repeatedly ask you not to. Great and funny video about it:

Meanwhile, incognito or not, all that history gets cloud saved.

 

[EverydayBeast]

Google could claim to be the only search engine, bing is that neighbor that doesn’t do their yard work.

 

[DrFigs]

I try to use it for the rewards. it's just so bad.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

LOL. Thats got to be among the dumbest product placements ever. Might as well add to it..... "Hey chick, make sure your default search engine is Bing too"... "How?".... "Go to settings...."

 

[TransTrender]

Aside from the $100B in spend, Google being the top search result is not anything new. This has been the case they have stated publicly years and years.

 

[diffusionx]

The thing is, in a lot of ways, Bing is a better search engine. Google is not what it used to be, and it is very censored on political/controversial topics. I think there is a "comfort" that people have in using Google, in that Google search results are the default, and if they dont use Google, they are missing something. And this was true when Bing came out, but it's really not anymore. It is the opposite if anything.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

I use bing for rewards and now they have the AI stuff built into it, it's actually pretty good.

But, inexplicably, I will sometimes search for something and not get anything useful, so do the same thing in Google and it just works immediately.

To some degree, catching up to the data that Google have is the kind of task that presumably costs billions, but I wonder if it can be caught.

Similarly, I read that China's extreme data gathering means they have so much data to exploit, that it should make their AI endeavours world leading.

 

[drganon]

 

[Atrus]

Frankly, I liked the Zune one.

 

[Mistake]

I use bing for rewards and now they have the AI stuff built into it, it's actually pretty good.

But, inexplicably, I will sometimes search for something and not get anything useful, so do the same thing in Google and it just works immediately.

To some degree, catching up to the data that Google have is the kind of task that presumably costs billions, but I wonder if it can be caught.

Similarly, I read that China's extreme data gathering means they have so much data to exploit, that it should make their AI endeavours world leading.

Nah, china internet is filtered and full of shitty ads. Any AI they come up with will be worse than chat gpt with its programmed biases.

Or, ya know, they'll just take an existing one and call it something else

 

[Dice]

I use Bing because they bribe me with MS points that turn into Gamepass (more of them burning money on it)

But there have been countless times I flip through 3-4 pages of results that have jack shit to do with anything I’m looking for then I go to Google and it finds it top result.

Hey MS maybe if you spent 1 billion on making it work instead of on bribing people then you wouldn’t have to bribe people.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

I miss Windows Phone and Zune.

They had a Zune that looked better than the Ipod, back in the day, forgot what it was. But, I think it partially failed because of its name. Zune. Lol. Reminds me of the failed Zima!

 

[FullMetalx117]

Google is like Apple - what they made may not have been the first, it may no longer be all that innovative, but it just works. And it works super well. If it wasn’t working well I would start using something else. I can tell the difference when I’ve accidentally used bing or yahoo a few times. And all the other additions like flights, shopping, etc. I’ve started using versus the traditional websites like Priceline/orbitz.

Google is just damn good at what they do. Yes Google is making money and getting my data. But I’m also finding what I was looking for. And if I’m being tricked, I can’t tell

 

[Kadve]

Bing's image search is way, way better than googles but its mostly the same thing otherwise.

 

[HoodWinked]

FUCK SEO, google has gotten progressive worse. Its why now when you actually want the right result you have to put reddit at the end of your search query.

But also fuck the project manager at Google that turned image search into complete dogshit. No one gives two fucks about google lens.

 

[MidGenRefresh]

I'm using Bing daily now.


to generate AI 'art'

 

[Tams]

I've used Bing for years now.

The results used to be pretty bad, but they've improved a lot. Images was the first to get better. I switched to DuckDuckGo and Escosia for a while, but learnt that they just use Bing anyway, just with added social fluff.

Since ChatGPT came out, I've used that (sometimes via Bing Chat) for a lot of queries, especially ones that aren't critical.

 

[Halcyon]

I actually strongly dislike googles search algorithm anymore. If the query is not something about a product or a purchase and is about information, the serp is garbage. Either it's terrible blog content or it's shit mainstream news. I mostly use it to find reddit posts on things although I also generally don't like reddit. *old man yells at cloud*

 

[Roxkis_ii]

I use Bing every once in a while and always end up going back to Google. The results are just better for my searches.

It's pretty telling when they have to bribe people to use Bing...

 

[winjer]

I have been using DuckDuckGo for a few years now. Also tried Brave search, but I prefer the Duck.
For the most part it has been very reliable. Rarely do I have to search of anything on Google.
Google search has been getting noticeably worse. And Youtube search is absolute trash, to the point of being borderline unusable.

 

[Z O N E]

I switched to Bing YEARS ago after Google became absolute garbage.

Plus, the Microsoft Rewards is the cherry on top. Think I made a previous post how I got a lot of stuff through the points.

Also, pays off Game Pass Ultimate for me too. So, no brainer.