• hltdev@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    does anyone actually ever use Bing, when not either tricked/manipulated into using it or under some sort of bribe/incentive via ms rewards ?..

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      1 year ago

      I got super tired of google a few months ago. “Ah, you searched for these terms. But I am going to ignore that and instead show you results for these diffetent ones, because fu.”

      So I started using bing instead, I wouldn’t say it is worse. Just differently bad. Some search things are much worse, some are much better.

      Quite annoying how they keep pushing for “AI” all the time though, so might go back to google soon anyway.

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        1 year ago

        Just so you know - it’s nowhere near as good as the “real” gpt-4. Maybe try paying for a month and see how it compares.

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        1 year ago

        Huh. I had no idea! And I use DDG… But I feel like all search engines are shit these days. 50% of the hits are autogenerated translations with AI creating false .[country] domain (I’m in Denmark) which are just advertisements. I miss the old days of search engines. Fuck, even Alta Vista gave more right answers back in the Netscape days!

    • Vilian@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      you can search anonynous in bing, that’s why Ecosia and DDG use it backend