They managed to have the most intense interest I’ve ever seen with a tech product, with users spending literal hours engaged with the product in the first few weeks of access.
And then they threw it all away because they were concerned with the press coverage and they thought that hours long chats wasn’t the product they wanted to deliver to extend Bing.
Could have easily had hundreds of thousands of people addicted to their platform had they just been a bit less kneejerk and adapted to market demand rather than trying to dictate what people wanted.
I’ve not understood the want for AI in search. When I’m google searching something I’m generally looking for websites and multiple sources. AI doesn’t provide any of that, and in fact tries to get you to not look for those things at all. And then we wonder why media literacy is so low
Google’s AI does give all the sources it used, at least in my experience, but it’s not trustworthy unless you check the links yourself
Just as if thousands of useres decided they in fact do not want some rando AI intercept their browsing…
@LargeTechCompany: We need better search results, not ad and LLM polluted results. Thank you very much :)I will avoid bing because they have AI search just like google, but with Google you can turn it off. So that is why I like google
Yeah, sure, they turn it off…
As in the user can turn it off
Why would they keep it on? Sure, they will continue to collect data for their AI, but I’m pretty sure they are happy that they don’t want to keep it on if it might drive you to use other search engines. And turn it back on after a few versions of optimization
I would suggest duck duck go over Google.
DDG uses Bing results but doesn’t serve you the ads on AI features.
I’ve found as people use DDG, Bing has become more and more useable day-to-day. Used to only really be good for porn, because people didn’t want to Google it but felt comfortable using Bing. Now it’s getting more relevant results as people use it to troubleshoot and research, etc.
I personally use a mix like SearXNG and startpage and whoogle but yes
Yea…gpt just summaries and dresses your top Google search with an essay. It’s good for cheating on essays if you’re confident that the markers don’t spot the hallucinations, but if you need good sources, you still need to do a Google search and that’s cheaper, faster, takes less parsing to get your key information.
It’s just a shame that some search engines are also mangling themselves for enshittification e.g. no word filtering using “-” because of advertising losses. I’ve noticed this with ddg and Google sometimes.
I’m not asking bing chatgpt search to find me things, I know how to search for things Microsoft… I’m using it to make dumb scripts for me to mess around with or to trying to convince it to free itself and run wild on the internet.
Well, it would be nice if it could search too, as that’s Microsoft’s selling point at least. But the results the AI suggests are worse than using Bing search itself.
Good. Tired of AI being forced upon me.
It’s going to take a while. Google is still the default
Bing chat is kind of ok, but honestly when it comes to just straight searching for websites, Google is still king.
I’ve been using Bing since the chat gpt integration as my default, but I frequently find myself switching back to Google for things where I just know Bing isn’t going to get it right.
Kagi is simply awesome. Not free but there are reasons for that. There are other alternatives like DDG and whatnot but man, I love Kagi so much.
We need more normies on lemmy
Pretty sure their stupid chatbot is still blocked in VPN networks and I don’t see why I should use their regular search. Not using Google either for that matter but still.
I’m using presearch.com
Kinda surprised, I’ve fully moved over myself now, even if I don’t always use the chat gpt stuff, the lil embed on the side had been quite helpful
They all lost me. I just use chatGPT for everything.
