Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as Google sees a decline

Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by eddieroger on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:36PM (#35293568)

That's cool in the short term, but it will be news when it's sustained. I logged in to Bing for the first time in forever to play with the AI some, but it didn't change my default search behavior of using Google, and now it's been easily two weeks since I went to Bing at all.

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by Filligree on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:39PM (#35293608)

I got access a while back, but haven't tried it yet. I don't have a windows machine to run Edge on.

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by educaysean on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:40PM (#35293628)

You can use the Bing mobile app as well

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by jasonthorsness on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:43PM (#35293664)

FWIW Microsoft has Edge installers for Linux and Mac as well, I am using it on Debian

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by csdvrx on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:54PM (#35293820)

I'm running Edge on Arch, it works beautifully with wayland

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by erokar on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:43PM (#35293675)

Edge runs on Mac too, with the chat stuff, same as on Windows.

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by bobbylarrybobby on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:45PM (#35293705)

Thankfully changing your user agent is enough

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by standyro on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:47PM (#35293740)

successfully did this too. it's just a webapp, no real need to restrict to Edge except for Microsoft trying to push their products

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by jvolkman on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:47PM (#35293736)

I'm just using this extension (I assume it just changes the UA): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bing-unchained-use...

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by chaostheory on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:46PM (#35293712)

The Bing AI is too crippled. It would be nice to have the option to remove its handcuffs. The chat limit and the constant “I’m sorry but I cannot continue this line of conversation” gets annoying fast. I was also able to get better answers from ChatGpt running on gpt3 than on Bing running on gpt4 for this very reason.

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by throwaway138380 on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:02PM (#35293923)

They don't have the stomach for the bad press, which is to say they don't have the stomach to be committed innovators.

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by csdvrx on Friday March 24, 2023 @02:53PM (#35293808)

If you use duckduckgo, you already use Bing results.

I rarely use google, and when I do it's from duckduckgo !g

I would immediately switch to bing by default if such bangs were supported as I sometimes need them for wikipedia !w or amazon !a

If there was a way they could be supported Edge address through a plugin or something, I would immediately switch to bing as that's what I already use 90% of the time (between duckduckgo frontend and requesting bing directly with !b )

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by petilon on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:08PM (#35293997)

Right, I would be surprised if Bing sees any sustained benefit. The search engine still sucks, and the way they integrated ChatGPT sucks even more. I use Google a lot less these days, but the beneficiary, in my case at least, is not Bing, but chat.openai.com, where I have become a paying customer.

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by o8o8o8o on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:14PM (#35294811)

I would 100% use Bing more if they offered a "minimal" or "low bandwidth" mode that cuts out all of the pictures, news, weather, etc. and just takes me to the results.

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by ben7799 on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:51PM (#35295276)

No matter how many hoops I've jumped through I still can't get access.

Signed in, installed Edge, etc.. It seems like I'm just stuck on the waitlist.

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by JumpCrisscross on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:51PM (#35295290)

> it will be news when it's sustained

The weakness is revealed. Google’s stickiness now has a quantifiable wedge factor. Whether it goes to Microsoft or someone else is more a matter of time.

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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by bazmattaz on Saturday March 25, 2023 @05:45AM (#35301058)

Duck duck go should integrate gpt-4 that could be interesting

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