[AlienRobot]

I don't know what Google is going to do with it, but Bing is absolutely ruining their search engine with AI. You search for something, AI starts typing out an answer in a typewriter effect. Since AI, I can't trust anymore that the snippets shown at the top are verbatim quotes from a human-written article or something the AI came up with (not considering they could be quoting an AI-generated article!). At the bottom of the search page, where the "next page" would normally be the rightmost button, it's now the "chat" GPT button. I misclick it every time I want to see the next page. I bet that is driving up some metrics and making some engineers really confused about why people keep clicking the chat button and then not chatting.

Overall this all feels so unimaginative. With all the resources these companies have the only solution they can come up with for the search problem is "just throw AI at it." I could come up with that. It's not clever.

[nolongerthere]

Curious why you ever use bing to begin with?

[AlienRobot]

They sponsor my browser of choice, Vivaldi.

Unlike Google, I can click the second tab every time and it goes to image search. Wait, actually they put "copilot" there and image search is the third tab now. Either way point stands: no shuffling of tabs.

Image search is actually better than Google. I can search for exact image sizes. Google used to offer this! I can just type my screen width and height and find the perfect wallpaper. Wait, it says "at least" here, not "exactly," so I guess it just stores the total amount of pixels of an image and then multiplies the width and height you inputted...

Can you believe this? It's 2024 and I can't even find an image by size on the Internet. I can't even trust the second tab is going to be the images tab. And some people think AI is going to fix software. It's ridiculous. It's just laughable. And so depressing.