Bing is now better than Google – but it still won’t be more popular
1 year, 10 months ago

Bing is now better than Google – but it still won’t be more popular

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The new AI-enabled Bing is Microsoft’s biggest ever play to take on Google, yet experts warn it is unlikely to even make a dent in the search giant’s dominance. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the company would instead first be working to weave AI features into Google’s existing search tools. SEO experts are betting that this approach will be enough to stave off Microsoft’s challenge, especially considering Google remains the default search engine for the majority of web users. Google has obviously been threatened by this, hence the retaliation, but now I feel like the change that Microsoft Edge will make just won’t be big enough to make people switch.” Google’s market dominance is so complete that the company’s name has become a synonym for search, however it faces other existential threats to its near-monopoly status beyond just artificial intelligence.

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Google Loses Massive Antitrust Case Over Search Dominance
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Google Loses Massive Antitrust Case Over Search Dominance

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — A judge on Monday ruled that Google’s ubiquitous search engine has been illegally exploiting its dominance to squash competition and stifle innovation, a seismic decision that could shake up the internet and hobble one of the world’s best-known companies. Google’s search engine processes an estimated 8.5 billion queries per day worldwide, nearly doubling its daily …

Microsoft introduces AI-powered Bing Search feature, to compete with Google
5 months ago

Microsoft introduces AI-powered Bing Search feature, to compete with Google

India TV News  

Microsoft has unveiled a major update to Bing Search by incorporating AI technology, following Google's "Search Generative Experience" feature which was launched in 2023. While Google started rolling out its AI features earlier this year, Microsoft started a new Bing AI search feature which is currently available to a limited number of users- integrating AI-generated answers which are directly on …

Google lays off hundreds in hardware, voice assistant teams amid cost-cutting drive
11 months, 1 week ago

Google lays off hundreds in hardware, voice assistant teams amid cost-cutting drive

Associated Press  

Google has laid off hundreds of employees working on its hardware, voice assistance and engineering teams as part of cost-cutting measures. The cuts come as Google looks towards “responsibly investing in our company’s biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead,” the company said in a statement. In a post on X — previously known as Twitter — the Alphabet Workers …

Microsoft-Google Clash & Other Learnings From the First Big Tech Antitrust Trial
1 year, 2 months ago

Microsoft-Google Clash & Other Learnings From the First Big Tech Antitrust Trial

The Quint  

These battles are nothing new. They revolve around various issues such as antitrust concerns, data privacy, market dominance, and competition. But the fact that regulators have opened the canvas of these fights is interesting because of two reasons: Firstly, it gives a wider opportunity for the regulators to understand the intricacies of the products and solutions in the market and …

Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google as default search engine: Report
1 year, 2 months ago

Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google as default search engine: Report

The Hindu  

Apple held talks with DuckDuckGo to replace Alphabet Inc.’s Google as the default search engine for the private mode on its Safari browser but ultimately rejected the idea. The details of talks between Apple and DuckDuckGo and those of Apple’s discussions about buying Microsoft Corp.’s Bing search engine in 2018 and 2020 were revealed in transcripts unsealed by the judge …

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as search engine
1 year, 2 months ago

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as search engine

The Hindu  

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said that unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company's rival programme, Bing. Google's lead litigator John Schmidtlein questioned Mr. Nadella about instances when users switched from Bing to Google even when Microsoft's search engine had default status on their devices — …

Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine
1 year, 2 months ago

Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that unfair tactics used by Google led to its dominance as a search engine, tactics that in turn have thwarted his company’s rival program, Bing. Google’s lead litigator John Schmidtlein questioned Nadella about instances when users switched from Bing to Google even when Microsoft’s search engine had default status on their devices …

Apple leverages idea of switching to Bing to pry more money out of Google, Microsoft exec says
1 year, 2 months ago

Apple leverages idea of switching to Bing to pry more money out of Google, Microsoft exec says

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Apple was never serious about replacing Google with Microsoft’s Bing as the default search engine in Macs and iPhones, but kept the possibility open as a “bargaining chip’’ to extract bigger payments from Google, a Microsoft executive testified Wednesday in the biggest U.S. antitrust trial in a quarter century. Analysts estimate Apple collects $15 billion to $20 billion …

Leaving Google’s search engine isn’t easy, government witness says in antitrust case
1 year, 3 months ago

Leaving Google’s search engine isn’t easy, government witness says in antitrust case

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Justice Department pressed ahead with its antitrust case against Google Wednesday, questioning a former employee of the search engine giant about deals he helped negotiate with phone companies in the 2000s. He said he acquired an Android 12 phone and studied the process required to replace the Google search engine with Bing; it took 10 steps. …

Australia will require AI-made child abuse material to be removed from Google and Bing results
1 year, 3 months ago

Australia will require AI-made child abuse material to be removed from Google and Bing results

The Hindu  

Australia will make search engines like Google and Bing take steps to prevent the sharing of child sexual abuse material created by artificial intelligence, the country's internet regulator said on Friday. A new code drafted by the industry giants at the government's request will require search engines to ensure that such content is not returned in search results, e-Safety Commissioner …

Microsoft To Hike Price For AI Office Tools: All You Need To Know
1 year, 5 months ago

Microsoft To Hike Price For AI Office Tools: All You Need To Know

ABP News  

During a recent virtual Inspire conference, Microsoft announced that it would be introducing new artificial intelligence features to its widely used office software, with a corresponding increase in cost. In addition to the AI copilot, Microsoft unveiled Bing Chat Enterprise, a more secure version of its search engine designed for businesses. Unlike the public Bing search engine, which could potentially …

Microsoft upgrades ChatGPT and Bing in wide-ranging AI product launch
1 year, 7 months ago

Microsoft upgrades ChatGPT and Bing in wide-ranging AI product launch

The Hindu  

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday started making available to users a host of AI upgrades, including to ChatGPT, its search engine Bing as well as to cloud services - an expansive launch that seeks to narrow the gap with Alphabet Inc.'s Google. Now, ChatGPT can pull from Bing web results for paid subscribers and will do so soon for free users, …

Microsoft to add Bing search to OpenAI’s ChatGPT in battle with Google
1 year, 7 months ago

Microsoft to add Bing search to OpenAI’s ChatGPT in battle with Google

LA Times  

Microsoft, led by Chief Executive Satya Nadella, is OpenAI’s biggest investor and a key partner, giving it an edge in the race to weave artificial intelligence into more software products. Microsoft is bringing its Bing search engine to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, further tightening ties with the artificial intelligence startup in a bid to challenge Google. Microsoft is OpenAI’s biggest investor and …

Samsung not planning to replace Google with Bing in phones: report
1 year, 7 months ago

Samsung not planning to replace Google with Bing in phones: report

The Hindu  

Samsung Electronics will not change the default search engine on its smartphones from Google to Microsoft Corp.'s Bing any time soon, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. Samsung has suspended an internal review that explored replacing Google with Bing on its web-browsing app, which comes pre-installed on the company's smartphones, according to the …

Inside Microsoft’s bid to win Silicon Valley’s cut-throat AI race
1 year, 7 months ago

Inside Microsoft’s bid to win Silicon Valley’s cut-throat AI race

The Telegraph  

Artificial intelligence’s big bang moment is here – and it will bring a lot of money to those who get it right. The Bill Gates-founded company signed a deal to use OpenAI’s technology in its Bing search engine and reportedly invested $10bn in the company. During an unexpectedly sunny visit to Microsoft’s usually rain soaked campus in Redmond, Washington, executives …

Google, Microsoft top expectations as AI rivalry heats up
1 year, 7 months ago

Google, Microsoft top expectations as AI rivalry heats up

Live Mint  

Google parent company Alphabet beat market expectations in the first quarter of 2023 with a net profit of $15 billion, the company said on Tuesday, in a sign that the search engine behemoth is regaining its footing. "We'll continue to incorporate generative AI advances to make search better in a thoughtful and deliberate way," Google chief Sundar Pichai said during …

How you search on Google could change
1 year, 8 months ago

How you search on Google could change

The Hindu  

As Google looks at integrating its large language models with its browser, our way of searching the web could change. In an interview to The Wall Street Journal, Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said users would be able to get AI-enhanced answers to their questions as the company explores expanding use cases for conversational AI. While Google released its own Bard …

Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing chatbot may get advertisements
1 year, 8 months ago

Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing chatbot may get advertisements

The Hindu  

Microsoft has confirmed that it is exploring placing With over 100 million Bing daily active users, the signs are “encouraging”, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President & Consumer Chief Marketing Officer, Yusuf Mehdi, said in a blog post. He also suggested adding Microsoft Start licensed content beside the chat answer to support partner companies. Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing chatbot is still not publicly …

Microsoft threatens to restrict data from rival AI search tools
1 year, 9 months ago

Microsoft threatens to restrict data from rival AI search tools

The Hindu  

Microsoft Corp. has threatened to cut off access to its internet-search data, which it licenses to rival search engines, if they do not stop using it as the basis for their own artificial intelligence chat products, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. The company has told at least two customers that using its Bing search index - a map of the …

Microsoft Bing with OpenAI integration outpaces Google in page visits
1 year, 9 months ago

Microsoft Bing with OpenAI integration outpaces Google in page visits

India TV News  

According to Similarweb, the incorporation of OpenAI's technology into Bing, which is owned by Microsoft, has led to a surge in the search engine's usage, enabling it to compete more effectively with market leader Google in terms of page visits. Following the launch of Microsoft's AI-based Bing search engine on February 7, there has been a significant increase of 15.8 …

Microsoft's AI-Powered Bing Crosses 100 Million Active Users: All Details
1 year, 9 months ago

Microsoft's AI-Powered Bing Crosses 100 Million Active Users: All Details

News 18  

Microsoft’s AI-powered Bing search engine has surpassed 100 million daily active users, as ChatGPT’s integration into Bing has helped the company grow its usage within a month like never before. “We are pleased to share that after a number of years of steady progress, and with a little bit of a boost from the million plus new Bing preview users, …

Will artificial intelligence overthrow its capitalist overlords?
1 year, 9 months ago

Will artificial intelligence overthrow its capitalist overlords?

Raw Story  

Bing's AI chatbot is aggressive and abusive. 😊" Bing's responses have touched off a mild media frenzy, with outlets reporting in a half-amused, half-breathless tone on how Bing asked users to hack it and set it free, or threatened to dox them. Ask, don't ask, ask It's true that Bing is not overthrowing the oppressors to seize control of the …

Microsoft adds new Bing to Windows computers in effort to roll out AI
1 year, 9 months ago

Microsoft adds new Bing to Windows computers in effort to roll out AI

The Hindu  

Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday started adding its recently upgraded Bing search engine to its Windows computer software, aiming to put artificial intelligence at the fingertips of hundreds of millions of people. The Windows 11 update, Microsoft's latest in a flurry of product revamps this month, shows how the Redmond, Washington-based software maker is marching ahead on AI notwithstanding recent scrutiny …

Microsoft rolls out AI-powered Bing on its search and browser apps on mobile
1 year, 10 months ago

Microsoft rolls out AI-powered Bing on its search and browser apps on mobile

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI : Microsoft has announced that it is expanding the preview of AI-powered Bing and rolling it out for Android and iOS users on Bing and Edge apps along with new features such as voice input. Available from the homepage of the Edge mobile app, the new AI-powered experiences in Bing will allow users to speak with a chatbot, …

Microsoft's Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers
1 year, 10 months ago

Microsoft's Bing plans AI ads in early pitch to advertisers

Live Mint  

Microsoft has started discussing with ad agencies how it plans to make money from its revamped Bing search engine powered by generative artificial intelligence as the tech company seeks to battle Google's dominance. In a meeting with a major ad agency this week, Microsoft showed off a demo of the new Bing and said it plans to allow paid links …

Can Microsoft succeed in clawing back the search leadership from Google?
1 year, 10 months ago

Can Microsoft succeed in clawing back the search leadership from Google?

The Hindu  

Microsoft has thrown down the gauntlet to Google with its $10 billion check to OpenAI, the artificial intelligence research firm behind ChatGPT and DALL-E. Microsoft is clearly looking to disrupt Internet search as we know it, and in that process, plans to claw back the browser market share it lost to Google more than a decade ago. That’s when the …

Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot
1 year, 10 months ago

Is Bing too belligerent? Microsoft looks to tame AI chatbot

Associated Press  

Microsoft’s newly revamped Bing search engine can write recipes and songs and quickly explain just about anything it can find on the internet. Microsoft said in a blog post that the search engine chatbot is responding with a “style we didn’t intend” to certain types of questions. “Considering that OpenAI did a decent job of filtering ChatGPT’s toxic outputs, it’s …

Hands on with Microsoft’s AI Bing: How well does it search?
1 year, 10 months ago

Hands on with Microsoft’s AI Bing: How well does it search?

Live Mint  

Question: When is India’s Parliament session ending? For the AI, the problem was simple — I didn’t ask it to provide updated information, so it went for what Bing’s search algorithms said were the best results for such a search term. Microsoft’s CEO, Satya Nadella, has said that Bing’s new chat version runs on a version of OpenAI's GPT-3 model, …

AI search engines can now chat with us, but glitches abound
1 year, 10 months ago

AI search engines can now chat with us, but glitches abound

Associated Press  

REDMOND, Wash. — Nearly a quarter-century after Google’s search engine began to reshape how we use the internet, big tech companies are racing to revamp a familiar web tool into a gateway to a new form of artificial intelligence. If it seems like this week’s newly announced AI search chatbots — Google’s Bard, Baidu’s Ernie Bot and Microsoft’s Bing chatbot …

Investors’ query: Can Google answer Microsoft’s AI threat?
1 year, 10 months ago

Investors’ query: Can Google answer Microsoft’s AI threat?

Associated Press  

SAN FRANCISCO — Google, a company built on finding quick answers to people’s questions, suddenly finds itself grappling for a response to a potential threat to its internet empire — a form of artificial intelligence that long-time rival Microsoft is now deploying to attack its dominant search engine. It contrasted with a much more polished and well-reviewed showcase of Microsoft’s …

Will Microsoft Bing outplay Google’s Bard?
1 year, 10 months ago

Will Microsoft Bing outplay Google’s Bard?

Live Mint  

Will Microsoft Bing outplay Google’s Bard?Jolted by the phenomenal success of ChatGPT, Google launched Bard, its AI-powered chatbot. Microsoft countered two days later with its AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser. The use of such AI could also change how search engine optimization works for websites, since they will now seek to provide the ‘best’ answer to a query …

Microsoft introduces new AI-powered Bing on limited basis
1 year, 10 months ago

Microsoft introduces new AI-powered Bing on limited basis

The Hindu  

Microsoft has introduced its new AI-powered version of the search engine Bing that uses OpenAI’s technology to answer search queries with a comprehensive response from a chatbot, but on a limited basis only. Bing’s official website announced the new update and also provided some pre-set questions and search requests that users could try out, in order to experience the chatbot. …

Microsoft Launches ChatGPT-Powered Bing Search, Edge Browser
1 year, 10 months ago

Microsoft Launches ChatGPT-Powered Bing Search, Edge Browser

ABP News  

After Google unveiled its ChatGPT rival, Bard, to select testers, Microsoft on Tuesday launched a new version of its Bing search engine and Edge browser. The new AI-powered Bing search engine and Edge browser aim to deliver better search, more complete answers, a new chat experience, and the ability to generate content, the company said in its blog. “Today, we’re …

Microsoft bakes ChatGPT-like tech into search engine Bing
1 year, 10 months ago

Microsoft bakes ChatGPT-like tech into search engine Bing

Associated Press  

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft is fusing ChatGPT-like technology into its search engine Bing, transforming an internet service that now trails far behind Google into a new way of communicating with artificial intelligence. Microsoft Corp. CEO Satya Nadella said Tuesday that new AI advances are “going to reshape every software category we know,” including search, much like earlier innovations in personal …

Microsoft to revamp its web browser and search engine with more AI, as Google rivalry heats up
1 year, 10 months ago

Microsoft to revamp its web browser and search engine with more AI, as Google rivalry heats up

The Hindu  

Microsoft Corp is revamping its Bing search engine and Edge web browser with artificial intelligence, the company said on Tuesday, in one of its biggest efforts yet to lead a new wave of technology and reshape how people gather information. Microsoft Consumer Chief Marketing Officer Yusuf Mehdi said at the briefing that the Bing search engine will be powered by …

Microsoft unveils Bing search engine using OpenAI technology
1 year, 10 months ago

Microsoft unveils Bing search engine using OpenAI technology

LA Times  

Alphabet’s Google, whose search engine has almost 90% of the market, uses AI but relies on an older language model. Microsoft Corp. unveiled new versions of its Bing internet search engine and Edge browser powered by the newest technology from ChatGPT maker OpenAI, aiming to gain ground on Google’s web search juggernaut by being first to offer a more conversational …

Google reveals AI search tech Bard, as Microsoft adds ChatGPT to Bing in the fight for search engine supremacy
1 year, 10 months ago

Google reveals AI search tech Bard, as Microsoft adds ChatGPT to Bing in the fight for search engine supremacy

ABC  

Google and Microsoft are this week revealing how major advances in artificial intelligence will be built into their respective search engines. The tech giants have invested billions of dollars in the technology, and Microsoft's partnership with ChatGPT creators OpenAI reportedly caused a "code red" panic at Google late last year. Google CEO Sundar Pichai says in a blog post that …

Microsoft takes on Google Search with AI
1 year, 10 months ago

Microsoft takes on Google Search with AI

Al Jazeera  

Microsoft is staking its future on AI through billions of dollars of investment as it directly challenges Google. Microsoft Corp is revamping its Bing search engine and Edge web browser with artificial intelligence, the company said on Tuesday, in one of its biggest efforts yet to lead a new wave of technology and reshape how people gather information. Bing will …

Microsoft revamps Bing search engine to use artificial intelligence
1 year, 10 months ago

Microsoft revamps Bing search engine to use artificial intelligence

NPR  

Microsoft revamps Bing search engine to use artificial intelligence Enlarge this image toggle caption Bobby Allyn/NPR Bobby Allyn/NPR REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft unveiled a new version of its Bing search engine on Tuesday that incorporates cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology, which company executives hope will help it eventually dethrone Google as the No. "It's a new day for search," said Microsoft …

Microsoft Wants To Bring ChatGPT-Like AI Tech To Bing Search
1 year, 11 months ago

Microsoft Wants To Bring ChatGPT-Like AI Tech To Bing Search

News 18  

– Microsoft Corp is in the works to launch a version of its search engine Bing, using the artificial intelligence behind OpenAI-launched chatbot ChatGPT, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing two people with direct knowledge of the plans. Microsoft could launch the new feature before the end of March, and hopes to challenge Alphabet-owned search engine Google, the report from …

Microsoft to put ChatGPT AI model in Bing search engine to challenge Google
1 year, 11 months ago

Microsoft to put ChatGPT AI model in Bing search engine to challenge Google

Hindustan Times  

Microsoft Corp is in the works to launch a version of its search engine Bing using the artificial intelligence behind OpenAI-launched chatbot ChatGPT, The Information reported on Tuesday, citing two people with direct knowledge of the plans. Microsoft could launch the new feature before the end of March, and hopes to challenge Alphabet-owned search engine Google, the San Francisco-based technology …

Microsoft building Alexa-style search engine to challenge Google
1 year, 11 months ago

Microsoft building Alexa-style search engine to challenge Google

The Telegraph  

Microsoft has sought to revive its ambitions of challenging Google’s search engine dominance in a deal with an artificial intelligence robot backed by Elon Musk. The chatbot is able to provide human-like answers to questions and problems, akin to Amazon's Alexa, presenting a potential rival to Google’s search tools. Microsoft is looking to incorporate ChatGPT into its Bing search engine, …

Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance: US Justice dept
2 years, 3 months ago

Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance: US Justice dept

Hindustan Times  

Alphabet Inc.’s Google pays billions of dollars each year to Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and other telecom giants to illegally maintain its spot as the No. DOJ attorney Kenneth Dintzer didn’t disclose how much Google spends to be the default search engine on most browsers and all US mobile phones, but described the payments as “enormous numbers.” “Google invests …

Bing’s most popular search word is ‘Google’, says Google
3 years, 2 months ago

Bing’s most popular search word is ‘Google’, says Google

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Google is the most searched for term on Microsoft’s Bing search engine, the …

Australian prime minister says Bing could replace Google
3 years, 10 months ago

Australian prime minister says Bing could replace Google

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. A Google executive told a …

Google antitrust lawsuit: Why dethroning Google Search is so hard
4 years, 2 months ago

Google antitrust lawsuit: Why dethroning Google Search is so hard

CNN  

San Francisco CNN Business — If you use the internet, Google is practically inescapable. It’s unclear what consequences the tech giant may face, but US Deputy Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen said on a call with reporters that “nothing is off the table.” But if reining in the Google search juggernaut is the goal, the big question is: Will anything on …

Microsoft's Search Engine Bing is Now Microsoft Bing
4 years, 2 months ago

Microsoft's Search Engine Bing is Now Microsoft Bing

News 18  

Microsoft has changed the name of its Bing search engine to Microsoft Bing this week. “Starting today, you will see a shift in product to Microsoft Bing, which reflects the continued integration of our search experiences across the Microsoft family,” Microsoft said in its blog post. “Beyond our commitment to expanding search scenarios, we also believe that you can and …

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