Microsoft shows off Bing with OpenAI's ChatGPT installed
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Blue eyes is back

Microsoft has announced a new version of its search engine Bing, which incorporates OpenAI's ChatGPT technology posing the greatest threat to Google in years.

Bing gets ChatGPT
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Friday, 06 January 2023 11:49

Bing gets ChatGPT


Hope it will make Pennies from Heaven

Software King of the World Microsoft is to launch a version of Bing using the artificial intelligence behind ChatGPT.

Microsoft’s Bing censors “politically sensitive” Chinese names
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Don’t mention prominent Chinese dissidents


Software King of the World Microsoft is in hot water after its Bing search engine was caught censoring the names of prominent Chinese dissidents, and national political leaders.

Angry database administrator jailed for seven years
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Bing deleted data after his security warnings ignored

Han Bing, a former database administrator for Lianjia, a Chinese real-estate brokerage giant, has been sentenced to 7 years in prison for logging into corporate systems and deleting the company's data.

Microsoft back to tricking users to use Bing
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Claims if they follow they will save time and money

Software King of the World and former antitrust lag Microsoft might be in hot water again after it started getting a little aggressive in its methods to trick users into using its search engine Bing.

Microsoft rebrands Bing
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Tuesday, 06 October 2020 11:41

Microsoft rebrands Bing


It is Microsoft Bing now

Microsoft is rebranding its Bing search engine to "Microsoft Bing" which seems to us to be a bit of a wasted marketing budget.

Bing is no longer a joke
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Monday, 03 June 2019 12:05

Bing is no longer a joke


It took ten years but now makes big money

It is the tenth birthday of Microsoft’s Bing search engine and Bloomberg wants to point out that it has gone from a joke to a money spinner for Redmond.

Bing not banned in China
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Monday, 28 January 2019 12:42

Bing not banned in China


Technical issues

It turns out that reports last week that Bing was blocked by the Chinese censors might have been untrue and that last week's outage was caused by a good old fashioned server outage.

Bing switched off in China
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Thursday, 24 January 2019 10:30

Bing switched off in China


Blocked by the censors

Microsoft's search engine Bing appears to have been switched off by the censors in mainland China.

Bing favoured neo-Nazi conspiracy stories
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Friday, 12 October 2018 12:36

Bing favoured neo-Nazi conspiracy stories


Microsoft clamps down on horrifying search results

Software King of the World Microsoft has discovered that its Bing search engine had a nasty habit of favouring neo-Nazi conspiracy stories when dealing with sensitive race issues.