[firecall]

> Google as a search engine is far better than Bing and that’s just a fact.

It was better than Bing...

Two things:

1) HN and elsewhere constantly point out how bad Google Search is lately 2) The introduction of ChatGPT and DALL-E powered Bing into Edge, the new Windows Sidebar and elsewhere has changed the game.

The new Windows 11 Bing/ChatGPT/DALL-E sidebar is so good that my hot-take is that it's going to put a dent into Google's Search dominance at a depth that Bing and others never have.

My final wild out-there prediction: MS ditch the Bing brand and pivot to using Copilot as their search and discovery brand.

[vishnugupta]

I switched over to DDG couple of years ago. When I recently used Google search for something I was shocked to see just how bad the entire UI had become, maybe the search result quality hasn’t taken a similar hit but the UI was extremely jarring.

Perhaps it’s coz I’ve minimized my footprint in Google ecosystem but then it just goes to show to what extent Google now relies on personal data to serve search results.

[mjan22640]

1) HN and elsewhere constantly point out how bad Google Search is lately

The internet is bad. There is a constant amount of good stuff and an exponentially increasing amount of garbage.

[em500]

> 1) HN and elsewhere constantly point out how bad Google Search is lately

I've been reading this on Slashdot back in the days, before HN or Reddit even existed.