Chinese internet search giant Baidu appears to have started blocking the online search engines of Alphabet’s Google and Microsoft’s Bing from scraping content derived out of the mainland firm’s Wikipedia-style service, a Post survey found. A recent update of Baidu Baike’s robots.txt – a file that tells search engine crawlers which uniform resource locators, commonly … Read more
Judy Sanhz / Digital Trends Microsoft hasn’t been shy about pushing first-party services and apps in Windows, but this time, it’s getting a little ridiculous. As reported by Windows Latest, the Microsoft application PC Manager claims you can “fix” your computer simply by changing Bing to be the default search engine. The change was spotted … Read more
ChatGPT isn’t the only AI chatbot in town. One direct competitor is Microsoft’s Copilot (formerly Bing Chat), and if you’ve never used it before, you should definitely give it a try. As part of a greater suite of Microsoft tools, Copilot can be integrated into your smartphone, tablet, and desktop experience, thanks to a Copilot … Read more
Google, in a recent court filing, revealed that Microsoft offered to sell its Bing search engine to Apple in 2018, but the deal wasn’t accepted due to concerns about Bing’s search quality. The documents, which are part of Google’s filings, indicated that Microsoft made several attempts to encourage Apple to make Bing the default search … Read more
A recent study found that searching for “Dokdo” on Bing in English from the US and Japan returned results primarily using terminology favoured by Japan, which disputes South Korean sovereignty over the Dokdo islets. This finding has raised questions about potential bias in Bing’s search algorithm. A study by Professor Seo Kyoung-duk of Sungshin Women’s … Read more
The new Bing – powered by OpenAI’s generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology – dazzled internet users with conversational replies to queries asked in a natural way. But Microsoft’s search engine ended 2023 with just 3.4 per cent of the global search market, according to data analytics firm StatCounter, up less than 1 percentage point since … Read more
Pint-sized bottles of wine will be hitting the shelves of Britain’s supermarkets after a recent Brexit review, the Department for Business and Trade announced today. The UK government claim that the new beverage sets out to boost innovation, increase business freedoms and improve customer choices. This news comes after a recent report slammed British women … Read more
