aral, to DuckDuckGo
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar
kubikpixel, (edited ) to internet German
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

Jetzt wo ihr alle auf eine und offene Plattform für gewechselt seid, das , könnt ihr z.B. bei den weiter machen.

🔎 @MetaGer
🔎 @Mojeek
🔎 @monocles
🔎 https://gruble.de

Ne du, so was wie , & liefern Daten ihrer Crawler wie (M$) und/oder . Pseudonymisiert ist nicht anonym, denn die sind vertraglich dazu verpflichtet.

hosford42, to llm
@hosford42@techhub.social avatar

I am really, really, REALLY irritated by what I just saw. The function of Microsoft's is outright lying to people with vision impairments about what appears in images it receives. It's bad enough when an is allowed to tell lies that a person can easily check for veracity themselves. But how the hell are you going to offer this so-called service to someone who can't check the claims being made and NEEDS those claims to be correct?

How long till someone gets poisoned because Bing lied and told someone it was food that hasn't expired when it has, or that it's safe to drink when it's cleaning solution, or God knows what? This is downright irresponsible and dangerous. either needs to put VERY CLEAR disclaimers on their service, or just take it down until it can actually be trusted.









aral, to DuckDuckGo
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Duck Duck Go is down because Bing is down.

(Also, you saw the recent AI stuff, right?)

Folks, I know… I use Duck Duck Go also but remember they have venture capital. Enjoy it while it lasts (or let’s fund and build alternatives differently that aren’t temporary businesses with profit motives and exits but commons-owned institutions working for the common good).

vwbusguy, to ai
@vwbusguy@mastodon.online avatar

I asked if Bing is reliable.

kaffeeringe, to microsoft German
@kaffeeringe@social.tchncs.de avatar

23.5.2024 - Der Tag an dem offensichtlich wurde, dass Bing praktisch die einzige verbliebene Alternative zu Google ist. Alle anderen "Suchmaschinen" sind Bing mit Schlapphut und Trenchcoat. 🕵️

https://www.heise.de/news/Bing-DuckDuckGo-und-weitere-Suchmaschine-nicht-erreichbar-9729489.html

kubikpixel, to Ecosia German
@kubikpixel@chaos.social avatar

Die Suchmaschine Bing, jetzt mit KI, ist momentan scheinbar überbelastet und deswegen down:
👉 https://allestörungen.ch/stoerung/bing/

Doch die Auswirkung ist mehr als nur bei ihnen, auch bei "alternativen" Suchmaschinen, die Bing im Hintergrund nutzen:

  • Ecosia
  • Duck Duck Go
  • Start Page
  • Dog Pile
  • Swiss Cows
  • ...

🔎 Was als zufärlässige Alternative genutzt werden kann, seht ihr in meiner Timeline.

m0bi13, to random Polish
@m0bi13@pol.social avatar

Przy okazji padu zb3.org chciałem sprawdzić czy blogasek nie ucierpiał w wyszukiwarkach. No cóż. W tych tworzonych dla ludzi nie (, po prawej). W tych robionych dla seo i robotów jak najbardziej.

Nie korzystam z google już od jakiegoś czasu, bo zwraca bzdury 🤷‍♂️
W rozmowach z ludźmi słyszę, że g. jest słaby. Ale mamy wbite w głowy, że bez g. się nie da. Otóż da się. A jeśli szanujecie swój czas, to nawet trzeba.

P.S. Qwant.com to europejska opracowana i utrzymywana przez Francuzów. Jedyna obecnie alternatywa (z własnym indeksem) do i .

jackyan, to DuckDuckGo
@jackyan@mastodon.social avatar

Bingo! Or -go! , , , and down? I hope a ton of people are switching to @Mojeek today. https://mojeek.com

apodoxus, to random
@apodoxus@mastodon.online avatar

Any of you using the . What do you think? I just switched yesterday because got a lot worse after Microsoft downmodded Wikipedia in (probably to make space for their shitty "AI"). So far it seems pretty good in general but very poor for local things here in Sweden.

tuneintodetuned, to windows Spanish
@tuneintodetuned@mastodon.social avatar

11 usa popups propios de malware para que uses y .
Hazte un favor y pásate a .
https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/30/23851902/microsoft-bing-popups-windows-11-malware

Vivaldi, to random
@Vivaldi@vivaldi.net avatar

Vivaldi bypasses restrictions to access Chat 😉

Like to try Bing Chat without using Edge for that?
You can. We’ve taken additional steps for you to use it in Vivaldi on desktop and 💪

How and why? More about Vivaldi 6.1 ⬇️
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-6-1/

kev, to DuckDuckGo
@kev@fosstodon.org avatar

So it seems that was down for the last few hours because of a outage. That's very annoying; DDG should probably get out from under Microsoft's coat tails...

<https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/23/bing-is-down-bringing-duckduckgo-and-ecosia-down-too/>

adelgado, to DuckDuckGo
@adelgado@eu.mastodon.green avatar

Because of the current issue with Bing that affects DuckDuckGo and Qwant, I did a "research" (5 min look into https://alternativeto.net/software/google-search/?license=opensource ) and found Searx and Searxng. I'm giving a try to Searxng, so far so good finding issues with Ubuntu 24.04 and Wayland. But I keep thinking that there should be a federated way to search the Internet

devinprater, (edited ) to accessibility

Yep, having access to that Bing image recognition thing has changed things a lot for me. Imagine you can barely see without your glasses, but there are no glasses. Everything is a bit blurry to you. Would you rather see even in that situation, or be totally blind? That's what AI image recognition is for me, and it's something I doubt any sighted person can understand. You think people are gonna describe Youtube videos? How about old TV shows? Or random images on the Internet? Memes on Twitter about toilet paper and programming? People's daily surroundings? Book covers? Did you know the cover of Automate the Boring stuff is something like a robot mowing a lawn? Yeah. Or graphs in a book? All these things were given to me by AI image recognition. And as long as I can understand the general feel of the image, or the meme, or decoration, I have been given something that I have never had before. And that's why this "beta" flight, Be My Eyes access pending, on-one-device-but-not-another, rollout type stuff is so frustrating. And yes, I know this is a corporation doing what corporations do. But for me, for my accessibility needs, it's huge.

Linux_Is_Best, to Ecosia
@Linux_Is_Best@mk.absturztau.be avatar

Search Engines currently NOT returning results:

  • Microsoft Bing
  • Ecosia
  • Duck Duck Go
  • Start Page
  • Dog Pile
  • Swiss Cows

strypey, to random
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz avatar

Is it just me or is web search getting dumber? I just tried to search for a report using DuckDuckGo, with the author's name and the full title as keywords. Instead of the text of the report, ideally from the original publisher, I got a bunch of vaguely related tech press articles. DDG are basically a front-end for Bing now, so I guess they're to blame. But I tried Monocles.de (Searx instance) and the results were only marginally better.

devinprater, to ai

Okay y'all, Bing Chat's image descrption thing is now coming around to mobile! You can't share from the share sheet, but you can save images and do it that way. More precise for better descriptions. can still make stuff up though.

The image you sent is a photo realistic image of a black and orange box of an AMD Ryzen 5 processor. The box is on a gray background and has a large red and orange Ryzen logo on the front. The box also has the AMD logo and the words “Ryzen 5” and “5000 Series Processor” on the front. There is a small white sticker on the front of the box that reads “AM4 Socket” and a small orange sticker that reads “Zen 3 Architecture”.

00Aaron, to DuckDuckGo
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michael, to php
@michael@thms.uk avatar

LOL. released a version of their with a very interesting bug, and didn't fix it until about 3 weeks later 😬

Tell me you don't have without telling me you don't have tests 🤣

https://github.com/BingAds/BingAds-PHP-SDK/pull/185/commits/0a185b559010384b709987c2bd18db0095728e98

ErikJonker, to random
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social avatar

So now we can all create endless AI generated pictures with Bing chat, an example made with "Create a picture of a modern house on an exposed cliff" , quite nice.

uichelorraine, to random French
@uichelorraine@piaille.fr avatar

Ce qui me fume dans cette histoire de moteurs de recherche basés sur la technologie de (comme tout le reste de la plèbe j'ai découvert ça aujourd'hui), c'est que j'aurais jamais cru que les mecs qui ont conçu et ont persisté surtout, avec Internet Explorer pouvaient produire une techno suffisamment crédible pour qu'on veuille se reposer dessus.

nixCraft, to microsoft
@nixCraft@mastodon.social avatar

Building awful products is Microsoft's specialty. tried to sell Bing to in 2018, but search quality was so poor that Apple declined to touch the product. Lmao. Even today, with all the AI hype added to , it failed to capture market share. 🤣
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/02/24/google-says-microsoft-offered-to-sell-bing-to-apple-in-2018.html

WhyNotZoidberg, to microsoft
@WhyNotZoidberg@topspicy.social avatar

Between the speech given where literally want to cloud base Windows (calling it Windows 365), the "Callback" wife beater tool and AI eating the Bing API for half a day today almost the entire W11 subreddit seems up in arms. I have never seen so many "I am switching to " and "I am saving up for a " comments as today.

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