Anid_VidAug 13, 2023

Microsoft now has implemented "compare with Bing chat" button when you visit Google Bard in Edge

https://reddthat.com/post/1709698

Microsoft now has implemented "compare with Bing chat" button when you visit Google Bard in Edge - Reddthat

When you visit the Google’s chatbot bard’s website in Microsoft Bing. A New Button pops up besides the search bar which lets you compare bard results with Bing chat’s. I have no idea why they implemented this, well maybe to show off the their chatbot is better than bard or something?

Show threadwhyAug 13, 2023
Is it me, or is that pretty anti consumer?
Show threadnxfsiAug 13, 2023
No more anti-consumer than Google saying that “the internet is best experienced in chrome” every time you open YouTube or Google search.
Show threadoutAug 13, 2023
They say that? I only use Firefox and I don’t see that.
Show threadu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)
Well, they also mangle/limit the Google Search on Firefox for Android. If you change your useragent to Chrome, it will show just fine, so it’s not issue with Firefox, it’s deliberate.
Aug 13, 2023 at 4:58pmWeb
Show threadpngAug 13, 2023
DDG has better results anyway
Show threadLemonstealingwhoreAug 13, 2023
Doesn’t DDG just use Bing?
Show threadelscallrAug 13, 2023
No, they operate their own crawlers.
Show thread_user_Aug 13, 2023

Per duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/…/sources/:

We also maintain our own crawler (DuckDuckBot) and many indexes to support our results. Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing. Our focus is synthesizing all these sources to create a superior search experience.

Where do DuckDuckGo search results come from?

DuckDuckGo is an independent internet privacy company that offers a private alternative to Google search & Chrome in one free app.

DuckDuckGo Help Pages
Show threadelscallrAug 13, 2023
Oh interesting. I’ve seen their crawlers in my server logs, didn’t know they were using it to augment Bing.
Show threadelscallrAug 13, 2023
Google’s results these days are shit. The other day I googled an exact terraform resource and included “terraform” in my search query. The first result should’ve been the page for that resource in terraform’s documentation, but that page wasn’t in the results at all. What was there was a blogspam copy of said page.
Show threadWhyDoesntThisThingWorkAug 14, 2023

Google has stop paying attention to it’s own search commands. I can +search term in my search and it will still bring up the same results it brought up in the previous search that made me include the + in the first place, even when I know results with that term exist.

Also if it decides you’ve typo’d, it often no longer gives you the option to search for the exact thing you typed. It used to say “did you mean __________?” and you could click a link to search for the exact word it thins you mistyped. It now often doesn’t give you that option anymore.

Show threadoutAug 14, 2023

Huh, does it show a popup or something or is it just speculation that they limit the search?

I haven’t used Google search regularly for years anyways, so I don’t know.

Show threadu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)Aug 14, 2023

Just gives you a limited interface. The menu on left side is completely gone, voice search is missing, Google Lens is missing, you can’t search by tags.

This add-on fixes it by changing useragent to Chrome when browsing Google: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/google-search-fixer/ which makes Firefox contribute to Chrome marketshare.

Google Search Fixer – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Google Search Fixer for Firefox. Override the user-agent string presented to Google Search pages to receive the search experience shown to Chrome.

Show threadoutAug 14, 2023
Huh, that’s odd. I found the same problem with some other user strings like some really old versions of chrome on Android and the old Android browser.
Show threadu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)Aug 14, 2023
Weird to think now that Google used to have Customized Firefox search page.
Mozilla Firefox Start Page