Testimony during Google’s antitrust case revealed that the company may be altering billions of queries a day to generate results that will get you to buy more stuff.
I’ve been using Bing with GPT for the last month or so, and it has NEVER failed to give the info I was looking for. Shopping, carpentry, tech, coding, and even descriptions of boat parts I don’t know the name of.
All Google wants to do is sell me something. God f*cking forbid I’m looking for a part number or something that shares similarities to “literally anything” that is for sale. Crap results, 1st 1/2 page is sponsored items, the next is always Amazon or eBay, or it’s forum results from 2010. Nevermind I’ve explicitly asked for 2022, 23.
I use the Bing app on Android (click for GPT4 / verbose (or whatever)). It’s been fantastic so far. I mean I’ll be the 1st MFr to bash Microsoft, but I have to hand it to them, they’re doing this right.
DDG scrapes their results from Bing, so you are effectively already using Bing. I had to stop using DDG because it plugs MSN and other Microsoft websites so hard.
Yeah I’m pretty much exclusively on DuckDuckGo these days, which is partially based on Bing but with a lot more privacy, and never really have any trouble.
I’ve had a hard time getting good results on assembler from Ducky. I use it mostly for regular everyday results, but the more technical stuff it’s fallen a little short.
I also use their app tracking blocking VPN (built into the Android app). Works fucking fantastic.
or it’s forum results from 2010. Nevermind I’ve explicitly asked for 2022, 23.
I wish I could do the opposite. Sometimes there’s a new article about something and I want to search its history or find an article about it from a year ago to see what people were saying then. It’s all but impossible to find anything that isn’t trending. I know the info is there but no search engine I’ve used allows me to see it.
When you mean using GPT, you mean you pull that drop-down from the top and talk to the AI? How do you know the info you are getting is accurate? AI has had a terrible track record of just regurgitating popular posts or making things up and AI can mask where the info came from, lending it an air of authority to what might be forum speculation.
I’ve been using Bing with GPT for the last month or so, and it has NEVER failed to give the info I was looking for. Shopping, carpentry, tech, coding, and even descriptions of boat parts I don’t know the name of.
All Google wants to do is sell me something. God f*cking forbid I’m looking for a part number or something that shares similarities to “literally anything” that is for sale. Crap results, 1st 1/2 page is sponsored items, the next is always Amazon or eBay, or it’s forum results from 2010. Nevermind I’ve explicitly asked for 2022, 23.
Google search is all but dead to me.
I’ve switched to DDG because Google results are literal garbage, but I’ll try Bing if it’s actually working.
I use the Bing app on Android (click for GPT4 / verbose (or whatever)). It’s been fantastic so far. I mean I’ll be the 1st MFr to bash Microsoft, but I have to hand it to them, they’re doing this right.
DDG scrapes their results from Bing, so you are effectively already using Bing. I had to stop using DDG because it plugs MSN and other Microsoft websites so hard.
Yeah I’m pretty much exclusively on DuckDuckGo these days, which is partially based on Bing but with a lot more privacy, and never really have any trouble.
I’ve had a hard time getting good results on assembler from Ducky. I use it mostly for regular everyday results, but the more technical stuff it’s fallen a little short.
I also use their app tracking blocking VPN (built into the Android app). Works fucking fantastic.
I wish I could do the opposite. Sometimes there’s a new article about something and I want to search its history or find an article about it from a year ago to see what people were saying then. It’s all but impossible to find anything that isn’t trending. I know the info is there but no search engine I’ve used allows me to see it.
When you mean using GPT, you mean you pull that drop-down from the top and talk to the AI? How do you know the info you are getting is accurate? AI has had a terrible track record of just regurgitating popular posts or making things up and AI can mask where the info came from, lending it an air of authority to what might be forum speculation.
I use the Bing app on Android, less power draw using the phone than a PC (I’m on a small boat).
All the results come with links as to where the information was pulled from.
Sometimes it serves up the info with 6 or more links, but the info I was looking for is ALWAYS within those links. Always.
(Open app, click on the blue ‘B’, click Use GPT 4, select more precise response, do search.)