• 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.

    • LinkOpensChest.wav@lemmy.one
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      1 year ago

      I will admit that I used it for years for the rewards, and it worked well for me. Once I started using a VPN though, it decided I could only redeem my rewards in Canada (I live in the US). I could have probably fixed it, but it caused me to have one of those “what am I doing anyway” moments and switch to using a SearXNG instance instead.

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      1 year ago

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