Microsoft Unveils Improved AI-powered Search Features for Bing (engadget.com) 38
Microsoft unveiled a handful of new intelligent search features for Bing at an event held in San Francisco this week. From a report: Powered by AI, the search updates are meant to provide more thorough answers and allow for more conversational or general search queries. First, when answering a question, Bing will now validate its answers by sourcing a number of websites, not just one. And in cases where there are two valid perspectives, like, for example, in response to the question, "Is cholesterol bad," they'll be aggregated and Bing will show both at the top of the search page. Additionally, when there's more than one way to answer a query, Bing will provide a carousel of answers. The Bing team is also adding relevant analogies or comparisons to search answers that make the provided information easier to understand. [...] Bing will also help users find answers to broad or conversational queries by asking clarifying questions that will help refine the search. And Microsoft also introduced Bing's advanced image search capabilities, which will now let users search images or objects within images to, for example, help them track down a particular fashion item they'd like to purchase.
The users will be thrilled! (Score:1)
Both of them.
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>searching for porn
>gotten wacky results
Sounds like it worked great!
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I like Bing and use it regularly. When it doesn't hit the results I need I turn to google. I too have heard it is good for porn. Probably. One of the reasons I use it though is that it doesn't filter torrent results as harshly as google. Sometimes I just want more trackers.
It looks like you're writing a letter (Score:4, Funny)
Outlook (Score:3)
I'd be happy if Outlook simply respected the fucking quotes when you search for something so that searching for "Cloud Admin & Security" didn't return every fucking email with, "&" in it.
Re:Outlook (Score:4, Insightful)
I remember a time when search engines respected logical operators, quotes and parentheses. A time before it was decided that the algorithms knew better than I did how form a keyword search and all queries should be parsed as natural language.
Somewhat on-topic (Score:2, Interesting)
I had to use Bing the other day for a search engine. I was playing around with an old system with a base install of Win2k SP4 on it.
But nothing else had been upgraded, so IE5.
Only search engine site that would load, was Bing.
I searched for several, what I thought were, basic ideas (win2k security patches post SP4, latest version of IE to work on Win2k, etc) and the results Bing returned were *garbage*, like BS spam sites, crack-sites, stuff that wasn't even relevant, except for keyboard bombing.
A pathetic s
Sometimes Bing is better than Google (Score:4, Insightful)
I've done some image searches where Bing produces results and Google comes up with none.
I'm pretty sure Bing has better video search (which the conspiracy theorist in me thinks might be due to Google wanting to favour YouTube results).
Why you still need Google to search for Microsoft KB articles is a mystery for the ages. You'd think that'd be a major embarrassment that Microsoft would have had as #1 on their priority list to fix.
Clippy Search...? (Score:2)
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Actually "Is cholesterol bad?" is probably a rather good query to train AI. The answer to this question isn't a straight forward yes or no. There is good cholesterol and bad cholesterol. Does the search engine just show all the sites that state it is bad/good or does it give a more nuanced result showing that there is good cholesterol and bad cholesterol?
Rename it to Bling. (Score:1)
So many more people be like yo bling search it. No one wants to say they binged it.
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What is the best browser to download Firefox? (Score:2)
I wonder what Bing will say?
Bing is still a thing? (Score:2)
Give me boolean... (Score:2)
Maybe it's the way my brain works, but I prefer boolean.
"2017" AND "Honda Civic" AND "Engine Capacity" gives very precise results, far better than any imprecise conversational query. Leave the AI, give me a good means of looking things up in a database, which is really what search is.
Sadly, no one will notice (Score:4, Funny)
It still is not.
Disregard Bing, use DuckDuckGo instead (Score:2)
A Search Feature In The Bing Search Engine ? (Score:1)
Didn't know there was one. Didn't used Bing. That explains.
Note that a search feature may not be the main feature of search engines, especially the free ones. What ? They're all free ? So, if they're free ...
AI vs controversial information (Score:2)
I wonder how this AI will answer to questions such as: