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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.
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I'd be happy if Outlook simply respected the fucking quotes when you search for something so that searching for "Cloud Admin & Security" didn't return every fucking email with, "&" in it.
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I had to use Bing the other day for a search engine. I was playing around with an old system with a base install of Win2k SP4 on it.
But nothing else had been upgraded, so IE5.
Only search engine site that would load, was Bing.
I searched for several, what I thought were, basic ideas (win2k security patches post SP4, latest version of IE to work on Win2k, etc) and the results Bing returned were *garbage*, like BS spam sites, crack-sites, stuff that wasn't even relevant, except for keyboard bombing.
A pathetic search engine. Even Microsoft's own sites weren't in the top 2-3 hits.
I don't know how many people use Bing, but I feel sorry for them.
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
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.
More properly known as Clippit. I'm sure it'll be great!
And in cases where there are two valid perspectives, like, for example, in response to the question, "Is cholesterol bad,"
And that is the AI search example they use to boast about their new search feature? As educated as (most) of society and populations in general are these days, we know a hell of a lot more concrete general knowledge that we can all just matter-of-factly say out of our flapping lips solely because it's proven and backed by substantial scientific and application proof, why the fuck are we wasting training it with Johnny Six-pack and Sally Manicure's questions?
Back off my going-overboard rant here, but I hope we don't train a massive neural AI network with fucking stupid ass questions and it deems human population 'annoying and unnecessary'. Put this to good use for pete's sake and I realize it will --- Microsoft will definitely have some eyes-only interfaces tied into their Azure platform for serious interest groups, but it's just debilitating to watch the absolute computing behemoths and triumphs humans have created in the last 10-15 years alone in AI, HPC on the scale it's been at, in large part, to the tech giants, being reduced to re-asking, "Is fire hot?" or "What color is blue?"
So many more people be like yo bling search it. No one wants to say they binged it.
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>searching for porn
>gotten wacky results
Sounds like it worked great!
I like Bing and use it regularly. When it doesn't hit the results I need I turn to google. I too have heard it is good for porn. Probably. One of the reasons I use it though is that it doesn't filter torrent results as harshly as google. Sometimes I just want more trackers.
I have performed the following searches in bing.com (US as country):
- "Is bing bad?". There is no vs. comparison at the top and the first 4 results ("Is Bing still bad?", "Whats so bad about Bing?", "This is why you dislike Bing", "Why Bing sucks. Top 5 reasons") seem to be very clear on this front.
- "is google bad?". A vs. comparison does appear above the standard search results: "Google is evil" vs. "Why is google so good". The first 4 results below ("Google is evil", "Google: good or bad", "Is too much Google a bad thing?", "7 reasons why Google Chrome, the new Google browser, is a bad idea") aren't as clear as before.
Conclusion: according to Bing, both cholesterol and Google can be considered good or bad, unlikely Bing itself which is undoubtedly bad. LOL.
DISCLAIMER: I personally don't really care about any of them as far as only use Hooli search.
DISCLAIMER (serious version): I am currently testing Yandex (with quite a few limitations on the English search front, but pretty good for specific searches like stuff related to programming or being shared in a copyright-careless way) and will be testing Bing next. So far, Google is the one delivering the best results but I don't like quite a few of their policies; StartPage is a quite nice alternative.
Custom Solvers 2.0 = Alvaro Carballo Garcia = varocarbas.
I wonder what Bing will say?
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Bing is still a search engine? Holy shit. I thought they'd killed that thing years ago.
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
Maybe it's the way my brain works, but I prefer boolean.
"2017" AND "Honda Civic" AND "Engine Capacity" gives very precise results, far better than any imprecise conversational query. Leave the AI, give me a good means of looking things up in a database, which is really what search is.
It still is not.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Get off the Micro$oft treadmill. Also take back your privacy.
Didn't know there was one. Didn't used Bing. That explains.
Note that a search feature may not be the main feature of search engines, especially the free ones. What ? They're all free ? So, if they're free ...
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I wonder how this AI will answer to questions such as: