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Bing has been revamped to prioritize AI search results – whether you like it or not (www.techradar.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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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.

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[–] NocturnalMorning 55 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I don't use bing, I use duckduckgo. If they start prioritizing AI results, I'll change search engines again.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So do I, so it's worth taking note since ddg ist just a bing frontend

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

If the description provided by the article is accurate, and it remains so in the near future, that won't be an issue for DDG users. All that DDG would need to do is to pull the results out of the side panel, instead of the central space.

[–] Imhotep 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I like how Kagi does it.
You can choose to have AI answer only when ending the search terms with a question mark

[–] alquicksilver 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I'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?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well, microsoft chooses bing for you sometimes

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As an ex-bing user they also basically pay you in the form of rewards

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I've gambled it all away and got... nothing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

My workplace also forces me to do all my porn searches on Bing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] hperrin 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Bing got really good really recently, and since DDG is to a large extent a frontend for Bing presumably it recently got really good