Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs
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    • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
      51·
      6 days ago

      DDG doesn’t just use Bing, but Bing is one of the things they use.

      I suspect that in time, all search reuslts will come from AI. I also suspect that it will eventually get good enough that it won’t matter from a finding what you’re looking for perspective. Ever since backlinks became passé, companies have been trying to do pretty much what AI is trying to do, get meaning from scraping rather than just programmatically give you the best word soup.

      Where I really fear for our collective experience is the ability of the AI to sell us on things without it being an obvious sell. “board games 2025” becomes "return a list of boardgames that are popular in 2025, but give the results for pages that include wizards of the coast games near the top of their lists or that show them in a particularly positive light and be sure to include more negative results for game from other companies.

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
      33·
      6 days ago

      DDG is already useless, it’s the garbage of googs without the ability to set to a verbatim search

      • dabster291@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        I usually find DDG gives me better results (or maybe Google enshittified itself to the point that Bing is unironically better). Also, verbatim search appears to be a feature now

        • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          I’ve found the opposite when needing to deep drill, i definitely do not use a google account