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Microsoft was caught testing way too many ads on its Bing Search results page. I saw 9 ads and only two organic/free listings on the page for a query on [garage door repair].

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[-] SaraTonin@lemm.ee 3 points 58 minutes ago

I’m sure both people who use Bing are furious

[-] b3an@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

I started using and paying for Kagi. Fuck Google and Microsoft.

I do, too, and I hope they increase their own search index to reduce the dependency on Google/Microsoft. I love the great search experience but I hate that I'm (indirectly) giving those companies my money.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 1 points 2 hours ago

I'd love to use Kagi but I'm too poor for their pro subscription (and I use too many search queries)

[-] singletona@lemmy.world 68 points 1 day ago
[-] Tea@programming.dev 39 points 1 day ago

Next up they might test making the whole first page for ads, and the pages after that for search results.

[-] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 35 points 1 day ago

Hell, why even have organic search results at all? Just rank results by how much each site owner is willing to ~~bribe~~ pay. A protection racket for the 21st century.

"That's a nice website you've got there. It'd be a shame if it got no visitors."

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago

Good idea, you now quality to mod r/anarchocapitapism

[-] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 3 points 22 hours ago

While I don't mind laissez-faire in principle, that not my favorite anarcho-flavor and I don't wanna :)

[-] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

I am empathetic to wanting to be left alone. I am disturbed by their desire to tear down systems that protect others out of some a historic notion that we would be better off with out them

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 41 minutes ago* (last edited 40 minutes ago)

Yup. I consider myself pretty laissez faire, but I too have my limits, which are way before I get within shouting distance of ancaps. I believe in Piguovian taxes and lean a bit Georgist for a tax baseline, which is already pretty far from ancapistan.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

well you'd think at some point people would stop using their bullshit search engine.

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 40 minutes ago

DDG works pretty well and is based on Bing.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 24 points 22 hours ago

Gross but also... kinda curious from an A/B testing perspective to know when the user drop off happens. Kind of like, what's the pain threshold before someone stops using shitty software. The answer really should be zero but the average user... ugh, it's probably fucking 8 or 9 and we should be ashamed.

Too bad is Bing so the sample size is too small for any meaningful results.

[-] vodkasolution@feddit.it 17 points 1 day ago

Do people actually use Bing??? Apart from the ms reward

[-] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 39 minutes ago

Yup! It provides the results for DuckDuckGo.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 21 points 1 day ago

I use its image search to study human anatomy.

[-] Pamasich@kbin.earth 3 points 23 hours ago

It's a lot better nowadays than Google, so I do, yeah.

[-] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 16 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

duckduckgo is mostly based on bing results so you could try that too.

[-] raptir@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago

Two of the ads are for the same company, and that company is also one of the two organic results.

[-] wwb4itcgas@lemm.ee 12 points 1 day ago

What a waste of bandwidth, energy and time.

[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 2 points 17 hours ago

Way to confuse adblock users

[-] Enelop@lemm.ee 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

This is what Google and Amazon already do, why are they singling out Bing?

Use an advertisement blocker on either site and the entire experience seems foreign.

[-] kepix@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

i feel bad for all the 10 bing users

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