[atum47]

Bing is kinda desperate it seems. I went to install GPT on my device yesterday and the first app result was a sponsored one - bing - telling can you can earn prizes by using the app.

Don't know if they are more interested in growing the number of users or collecting that sweet data. Probably both.

[abraham]

Bing Rewards was launched in 2010 so apparently it's working enough to keep it around.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bing#:~:text=Bing%20....

[rchaud]

Google pays Apple $20b every year to remain the default search engine on iOS. Now that's desperate. Where were people going to go, Bing?

[greenyoda]

Google may be afraid that Apple would develop their own search engine, just like they developed their own maps engine and iCloud for email/photos. Apple, with their massive piles of cash, would have the resources to do that.

[zamadatix]

Or that Apple simply changes the default Bing, offering something less but greater than 0, and Google loses out on >20 billion in ad revenue.

[asadotzler]

Or buy one, like Bing, and take it from middling to solid.

[karakot]

yes, the same way they went with Siri.

[dgellow]

Bing brought 12 billion in revenue in 2022. Just saying.

[hadlock]

Whatsapp has their own version of ChatGPT. It's an arms race right now