Users croon in complaint

Software King of the World, Microsoft has had to roll back its latest update to its Bing Image Generation system, which installed the latest iteration of OpenAI’s Dall-E model after Bing users vociferously complained about a decline in image quality.

A sneaky move to retain Bing users

Software King of the World, Microsoft appears to have implemented a new and somewhat controversial tactic aimed at keeping users on Bing rather than losing them to Google.

Cloudflare sees 17.2 per cent growth

Cloudflare’s 2024 Internet Traffic Report reveals a notable 17.2 per cent global surge in internet traffic, underscoring the continued expansion of the digital world.

Microsoft's AI CEO predicts

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman predicts that conversational AI will become the primary way people interact with technology, effectively replacing traditional web browsers and search engines within the next few years.

Challenges Google and Microsoft

OpenAI launched a real-time search function within ChatGPT, marking its first significant foray into a market long dominated by Google.

Quietly working on webcrawling

Meta is now setting its sights on building a search engine to compete with giants like Google and Bing.

It probably wished it had bought it now

Microsoft offered to sell its Bing search engine to Apple in 2018, Google claimed in a court paper this month.

Spam sites are ruining search results

According to a new study by German boffins, Google search is flooded with low-quality SEO spam.

Even Bing is outclassing it, so it has to do something

With the arrival of AI, the search engine Google has found itself in the embarrassing situation of being beaten by Microsoft’s Bing, and now the company says it will roll out its own AI Gemini across nearly its entire line of products.

Microsoft investigating 

Software King of the World Microsoft is investigating claims that its Edge browser appears to be sending URLs you visit to its Bing API website.