When you visit the Google’s chatbot bard’s website in Microsoft Bing. A New Button pops up besides the search bar which lets you compare bard results with Bing chat’s. I have no idea why they implemented this, well maybe to show off the their chatbot is better than bard or something?

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      1 year ago

      No more anti-consumer than Google saying that “the internet is best experienced in chrome” every time you open YouTube or Google search.

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          Well, they also mangle/limit the Google Search on Firefox for Android. If you change your useragent to Chrome, it will show just fine, so it’s not issue with Firefox, it’s deliberate.

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              Google’s results these days are shit. The other day I googled an exact terraform resource and included “terraform” in my search query. The first result should’ve been the page for that resource in terraform’s documentation, but that page wasn’t in the results at all. What was there was a blogspam copy of said page.

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                Google has stop paying attention to it’s own search commands. I can +search term in my search and it will still bring up the same results it brought up in the previous search that made me include the + in the first place, even when I know results with that term exist.

                Also if it decides you’ve typo’d, it often no longer gives you the option to search for the exact thing you typed. It used to say “did you mean __________?” and you could click a link to search for the exact word it thins you mistyped. It now often doesn’t give you that option anymore.

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            Huh, does it show a popup or something or is it just speculation that they limit the search?

            I haven’t used Google search regularly for years anyways, so I don’t know.

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        Don’t you think it’s different if Google says this on their own sites vs Microsoft showing this when visiting their competitors?

        Both isn‘t good. But I feel like one of those is clearly worse.

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      at that point i consider it a microsoft tradition to do the “hey, i see you’re using Y, we have a similar product called Z and it’s better, do you want to try it?”-routine no one asked for.

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        “No one asked for this” should be Microsoft’s tag line. Rather than fix problems that have been around for years - decades in some cases - they just keep adding crap that no one wants or asked for.

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      1 year ago

      Being offered a second option and not having a monopoly is as consumer friendly as it gets, may I suggest a dictionary?

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        Except they are using the power they have with people using their browser to divert people away from the alternative to their product.