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[-] cupcakezealot 4 points 6 months ago

because it's not google we're gonna make it look exactly like google

[-] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Remember when they proved that bing was just providing google search results?

Like it straight up sent your search query to google search and fed back the results in the bing skin.

Edit: i am uncertain that this is true, after a search i found this article from 2011

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12343597#:~:text=%22We%20noticed%20that%20URLs%20from,or%20the%20Bing%20Search%20toolbar.

This is what i was referring to. I explicitly remember reading this story, either on bbc or somewhere else, back then but i didnt look into it any further at the time.

I have had a quick look around (im in work) and there is a possibility that it was never proven. But i dont have a reliable source to show that at the moment. If anyone wants to fact check, be my guest. But please dont, as another poser did downvote my comment and post images of a google and bing search you did just now as evidence that my claim is false without looking into the validity of my claim.

The link above is from 2011, as i said, and shows what i was claiming.

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Just try yourself, the claim is obviously false.

https://www.bing.com/search?pc=MOZI&form=MOZLBR&q=bullshit
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=bullshit

The results here are nothing alike.
Her I have the first result on Google being "Prime video", which does not occur on the first page of Bing.
On Bing the first result is Wikipedia English, where Google has Wikipedia Danish as 2nd result, and the English not occuring on first page.

spoiler


[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 6 months ago

Remember how much they just announced they were plowing into AI? The Machine Hungers

[-] spicehoarder@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

Eh who cares? You guys act like Google is some helpless infant

[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

Don't worry, "the mushroom will eat the fungus". It may be the other way around, but whatever.

[-] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 6 months ago

I wonder if Google would even bother to do the reverse. Is anyone searching for bing?

[-] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

Google has such bad results, they would probably figure you wanted the Palmer’s candy.

[-] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago
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[-] airportline@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

They should probably just make that the default homepage at this point

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