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Microsoft Unveils Improved AI-powered Search Features for Bing (engadget.com)
Microsoft unveiled a handful of new intelligent search features for Bing at an event held in San Francisco this week. From a report: Powered by AI, the search updates are meant to provide more thorough answers and allow for more conversational or general search queries. First, when answering a question, Bing will now validate its answers by sourcing a number of websites, not just one. And in cases where there are two valid perspectives, like, for example, in response to the question, "Is cholesterol bad," they'll be aggregated and Bing will show both at the top of the search page. Additionally, when there's more than one way to answer a query, Bing will provide a carousel of answers. The Bing team is also adding relevant analogies or comparisons to search answers that make the provided information easier to understand. [...] Bing will also help users find answers to broad or conversational queries by asking clarifying questions that will help refine the search. And Microsoft also introduced Bing's advanced image search capabilities, which will now let users search images or objects within images to, for example, help them track down a particular fashion item they'd like to purchase.
I've done some image searches where Bing produces results and Google comes up with none.
I'm pretty sure Bing has better video search (which the conspiracy theorist in me thinks might be due to Google wanting to favour YouTube results).
Why you still need Google to search for Microsoft KB articles is a mystery for the ages. You'd think that'd be a major embarrassment that Microsoft would have had as #1 on their priority list to fix.
I remember a time when search engines respected logical operators, quotes and parentheses. A time before it was decided that the algorithms knew better than I did how form a keyword search and all queries should be parsed as natural language.