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Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by gambiting on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:09PM (#35294009)
Not for me. That website isn't anywhere on the first page of results.
Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by adriancr on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:18PM (#35294122)
Try ublock origin / searching without account then, I'm getting the same result as everyone else

The ads are personalised to you though

Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by gambiting on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:21PM (#35294151)
Yeah I just vpn'ed to my machine at work and I'm getting results about micropyhton too. But on my personal machine it absolutely thinks I'm interested in buying some generic programming courses and nothing about micropython.
Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by sufficer on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:12PM (#35294054)
Maybe you got some Spyware or something interfering with Google queries
Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by throw10920 on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:14PM (#35294073)
Um, no. Google "bubbles" their search results, meaning that they customize them based on their profile of you. This is not new - it's been implemented and known publicly for years.
Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by kgen on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:33PM (#35294317)
Right, and what the person above is saying is that spyware/bad extensions can be making random searches which muddy your profile's search data
Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by Dylan16807 on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:33PM (#35295046)
It is? That's not how I would normally interpret "interfering".

And why should random searches make my results significantly worse than the default? That doesn't exactly absolve google of screwing up.

Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by spullara on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:49PM (#35294496)
I'd say the results are bad enough that something is interfering.
Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by gambiting on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:15PM (#35294078)
Or maybe google tailors what it shows to what it thinks I want to see based on my user profile :P
Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by yieldcrv on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:44PM (#35294431)
I love how this is also an example of how well censorship works

People just invalidating each other instead of the third party because a third party creates different experiences

Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by lwhi on Friday March 24, 2023 @03:29PM (#35294260)
I see exactly the same.

Google provides exactly what you're looking for ..

Re:Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as ... by graeme on Friday March 24, 2023 @04:31PM (#35295018)
First result for me too