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A comment on Bing sees 15.8% boost in visits following GPT-4 push, as Google sees a decline. Parent comment

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.
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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
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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.

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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.
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