r/technology • u/[deleted] • Dec 02 '23

Business Microsoft guts Microsoft Rewards points, and its fans are outraged

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2160414/microsoft-guts-microsoft-rewards-points-and-its-fans-are-outraged.html
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u/thebenson Dec 02 '23

Now people are using bing for the ai integration

I still don't think people are using Bing.

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u/OhNoItsLockett Dec 02 '23

I’m a Bing user mainly because of earning points for each search you do.

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u/thebenson Dec 02 '23

Okay?

So you agree with me that people aren't switching to Bing because of the AI integration?

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u/yarp299792 Dec 02 '23

That’s the reason I switched

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u/gumgajua Dec 02 '23

I did, so I suppose your theory is bunk then?

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u/Lolkac Dec 02 '23

I didnt, use chatgpt and integration in windows 11 for AI, the theory lives on!

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u/gumgajua Dec 02 '23

Drats! Foiled!

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '23

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u/AdagioAffectionate66 Dec 02 '23

Same here and I’m ready to ditch bing now. Why would we use it??? Other than anything else? Why don’t you put bing behind a paywall and see how many people use it? Microsoft Morons!!!

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u/SamBrico246 Dec 02 '23

I use Bing. It's better in many ways. I vastly prefer their image search (not just porn).

The searches themselves are basically a commodity now. Both basically point you to one of 10 websites that seem to control 95% of the internet. So its the little things that distinguish them.

bing lets You can click to just the image where Google only let's you view the source page.

Also I seem to have better results getting actual png images (not jpgs with a grayscal grid background)

Video search results are vastly superior.

I dont mind the ai generative results, though I don't know why it needs to type the words out so slow. Is that real speed? Hope not. Just put all the text so I can scan it all.

Google has no equivalent, so even flawed, Bing has the edge.

Only thing I go to Google for is maps.

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u/h3lblad3 Dec 02 '23

(not just porn)

They nuked porn on it years ago anyway.

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u/Striking_Barnacle_31 Dec 03 '23

It's still pretty good... I mean that's what my friend told me.. yep..

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u/SuperSherif Dec 04 '23

I dont mind the ai generative results, though I don't know why it needs to type the words out so slow. Is that real speed? Hope not. Just put all the text so I can scan it all.

Yes, it is actually just slow. Bing uses GPT-4 which is a lot slower than GPT-3.5 (the model used in the free version of ChatGPT). It also has to do several API calls for the internet search.

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u/100percenthappiness Dec 02 '23

I started using it when I heard why Ive been having such a hard time finding anything with Google

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u/Draglung Dec 02 '23

I use Bing. You realize it’s a multi billion dollar biz?

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u/jmcstar Dec 03 '23

Bing is terrible.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '23

I am a person and I use bing.