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That's cool in the short term, but it will be news when it's sustained. I logged in to Bing for the first time in forever to play with the AI some, but it didn'

That's cool in the short term, but it will be news when it's sustained. I logged in to Bing for the first time in forever to play with the AI some, but it didn't change my default search behavior of using Google, and now it's been easily two weeks since I went to Bing at all.

Filligree 4y ago
I got access a while back, but haven't tried it yet. I don't have a windows machine to run Edge on.
- bobbylarrybobby 4y ago
  Thankfully changing your user agent is enough
  - standyro 4y ago
    successfully did this too. it's just a webapp, no real need to restrict to Edge except for Microsoft trying to push their products
- educaysean 4y ago
  You can use the Bing mobile app as well
- jasonthorsness 4y ago
  FWIW Microsoft has Edge installers for Linux and Mac as well, I am using it on Debian
  - csdvrx 4y ago
    I'm running Edge on Arch, it works beautifully with wayland
- erokar 4y ago
  Edge runs on Mac too, with the chat stuff, same as on Windows.
- jvolkman 4y ago
  I'm just using this extension (I assume it just changes the UA): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bing-unchained-use-new-bi/laldfnbbeocphnilnofhedhcjcnchbld https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bing-unchained-use...
chaostheory 4y ago
The Bing AI is too crippled. It would be nice to have the option to remove its handcuffs. The chat limit and the constant “I’m sorry but I cannot continue this line of conversation” gets annoying fast. I was also able to get better answers from ChatGpt running on gpt3 than on Bing running on gpt4 for this very reason.
- throwaway138380 4y ago
  They don't have the stomach for the bad press, which is to say they don't have the stomach to be committed innovators.
csdvrx 4y ago
If you use duckduckgo, you already use Bing results. I rarely use google, and when I do it's from duckduckgo !g I would immediately switch to bing by default if such bangs were supported as I sometimes need them for wikipedia !w or amazon !a If there was a way they could be supported Edge address through a plugin or something, I would immediately switch to bing as that's what I already use 90% of the time (between duckduckgo frontend and requesting bing directly with !b )
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petilon 4y ago
Right, I would be surprised if Bing sees any sustained benefit. The search engine still sucks, and the way they integrated ChatGPT sucks even more. I use Google a lot less these days, but the beneficiary, in my case at least, is not Bing, but chat.openai.com, where I have become a paying customer.
o8o8o8o 4y ago
I would 100% use Bing more if they offered a "minimal" or "low bandwidth" mode that cuts out all of the pictures, news, weather, etc. and just takes me to the results.
ben7799 4y ago
No matter how many hoops I've jumped through I still can't get access. Signed in, installed Edge, etc.. It seems like I'm just stuck on the waitlist.
JumpCrisscross 4y ago
> it will be news when it's sustained The weakness is revealed. Google’s stickiness now has a quantifiable wedge factor. Whether it goes to Microsoft or someone else is more a matter of time.
bazmattaz 4y ago
Duck duck go should integrate gpt-4 that could be interesting

Filligree 4y ago

I got access a while back, but haven't tried it yet. I don't have a windows machine to run Edge on.

bobbylarrybobby 4y ago
Thankfully changing your user agent is enough
- standyro 4y ago
  successfully did this too. it's just a webapp, no real need to restrict to Edge except for Microsoft trying to push their products
educaysean 4y ago
You can use the Bing mobile app as well
jasonthorsness 4y ago
FWIW Microsoft has Edge installers for Linux and Mac as well, I am using it on Debian
- csdvrx 4y ago
  I'm running Edge on Arch, it works beautifully with wayland
erokar 4y ago
Edge runs on Mac too, with the chat stuff, same as on Windows.
jvolkman 4y ago
I'm just using this extension (I assume it just changes the UA): https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bing-unchained-use-new-bi/laldfnbbeocphnilnofhedhcjcnchbld https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bing-unchained-use...

chaostheory 4y ago

The Bing AI is too crippled. It would be nice to have the option to remove its handcuffs. The chat limit and the constant “I’m sorry but I cannot continue this line of conversation” gets annoying fast. I was also able to get better answers from ChatGpt running on gpt3 than on Bing running on gpt4 for this very reason.

throwaway138380 4y ago
They don't have the stomach for the bad press, which is to say they don't have the stomach to be committed innovators.

csdvrx 4y ago

If you use duckduckgo, you already use Bing results. I rarely use google, and when I do it's from duckduckgo !g I would immediately switch to bing by default if such bangs were supported as I sometimes need them for wikipedia !w or amazon !a If there was a way they could be supported Edge address through a plugin or something, I would immediately switch to bing as that's what I already use 90% of the time (between duckduckgo frontend and requesting bing directly with !b )

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petilon 4y ago

Right, I would be surprised if Bing sees any sustained benefit. The search engine still sucks, and the way they integrated ChatGPT sucks even more. I use Google a lot less these days, but the beneficiary, in my case at least, is not Bing, but chat.openai.com, where I have become a paying customer.

o8o8o8o 4y ago

I would 100% use Bing more if they offered a "minimal" or "low bandwidth" mode that cuts out all of the pictures, news, weather, etc. and just takes me to the results.

ben7799 4y ago

No matter how many hoops I've jumped through I still can't get access. Signed in, installed Edge, etc.. It seems like I'm just stuck on the waitlist.

JumpCrisscross 4y ago

> it will be news when it's sustained The weakness is revealed. Google’s stickiness now has a quantifiable wedge factor. Whether it goes to Microsoft or someone else is more a matter of time.

bazmattaz 4y ago

Duck duck go should integrate gpt-4 that could be interesting