Microsoft adds generative search to its Bing engine

Microsoft is adding generative search to Bing despite the search engine's market share showing no increase after prior AI tech additions. The technology, currently being rolled out to a small percentage of Bing users, bears a striking resemblance to Google's AI Overviews. It builds summaries in response to search queries …

[Rich 2]

Can you turn it off?

That’s all I need to know

[Anonymous Coward]

"What is a spaghetti western?"

So it is just summarising the Wikipedia page?

[veti]

Already seen it

So, a couple of days ago I searched for "Napoleon's greatest victories". My search engine was set to Bing.

The top result gave me a list, which wasn't seemingly attributed to any specific web page. The top three answers were 1. Austerlitz (fair enough), 2. Friedland (ok, arguable at least), 3. Waterloo (hmmm).

[navarac]

Why the f**k would I use BingBong? Give it up Microsoft, you've lost it, unless you also make the search engine choice difficult, like the browser choice and everything else of your faulty offerings.

[veti]

Bing is fine, it's probably better than Google these days (though that's as much because Google has come down to meet it as that Bing has improved).