Microsoft has just announced a huge update to Bing that overhauls the search engine to put AI-powered answers first.
This means that when a search query is entered, the results page will pop up with a primary AI-generated answer detailing all the curated sources that have been tapped to get that result. You’ll still get the traditional search results on the Bing search page, but they will be presented to the side of the AI-generated material (in a smaller right-hand panel).
This change is currently rolling out to a small number of Bing users, but it’ll presumably become more widely available before too long. From what we can tell there’s no obvious way to turn off the AI results if you wanted to do so.
I don’t use bing, I use duckduckgo. If they start prioritizing AI results, I’ll change search engines again.
I like how Kagi does it.
You can choose to have AI answer only when ending the search terms with a question markI’ve only ever known people to use Bing for porn (or because their workplace forces it on them). There are people who actually choose it?
Well, microsoft chooses bing for you sometimes
As an ex-bing user they also basically pay you in the form of rewards
genuinely asking… how do you ever find relevant results on duckduckgo? I’ve tried switching to it many times over the years but i just get too frustrated by its lack of intuitiveness.
I don’t know, it just works for me.
I use duckduckgo exclusively. It happens that I occasionally switch to Google (which is btw very easy with “!g”) but that pretty much never solves my problem.
I’ve only had a handful of searches that didn’t find what I was looking for, and about half of those weren’t any better on Google.
I hope this doesn’t affect DDG, but they’ve also added AI garbage to the page recently, so 🙁
Well, damn. Now I have to continue to not use Bing. Next thing you know I’ll have to continue to not use Google.
That’s nice. I didn’t want to use Bing anyways.
More free disinformation, good job microsoft…
Fuck I wish I could turn them off…first thing I do is scroll past the AI garbage
They too? But that with Google was a mistake on CEO level, didn’t Bing hear that?
Also not at all the point at all , but the new font is hard on the eyes
Unsurprising from the company that still hasn’t fixed the light gray on light gray scroll bar.
Weird choice. These days I’d bet the absolute best thing Bing, or any other search engine, could do to stand out in the search game would be to explicitly not use AI results. The advertising is so easy you don’t even need AI to write it for you.
Montage of a few blatantly wrong AI generated answers telling people it’s okay to cook with gasoline in your sauce or that drinking a little bit of bleach is healthy or whatever… then cut to a list of well respected sources that say otherwise. “The internet is already good enough at feeding you wrong answers. Search the way it’s meant to be.”
The aurhor forget that they are many other search engines
Haven’t used it for such things lately but Bing used to be the search engine for porn. Like all engines I think they start out great but then start to tweak the results to basically only serve what they want you to see. Helping you find what you want to see becomes a distant in second.
I don’t use Bing anyway. 🤷
