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I use bing mostly.
... Is a sentance I never thought I would read in a million years
Ditto. I mostly use it when Google (search, not Bard) fails me. I find it's really good at answering questions of the ilk: "I swear there's a function for this in the library I'm using, what's it called again?", or telling me that it doesn't actually exist.
Agreed. I find Bing chat is really good when I know almost nothing about what I'm searching, or when I know a whole lot about what I'm searching. Like in your example, if I know exactly what I need but can't remember its name Bing will read all the spammy beginners' guides for me and get the answer. And on the opposite end, if I'm looking to buy a gift in a hobby I don't remotely understand Bing does a pretty good job of holding my hand through the search process.
Weirdly, medium knowledge questions seem to still do better as a basic Google search. If I need to fix an appliance I've fixed before, but it's been a long time so I really need a full walkthrough, the first few results on Google are faster than waiting for Bing to talk through it.
I don't have the time to find this right now but there was an example at launch where it very badly summarized pet vacuums or some such, giving blatantly incorrect information about them.
bing chat is pretty great, not only do you get the benefits of search and gpt4 but also summarizing/answering questions on the webpage you have open or pdfs if you open them in edge. Only issue is that it is slower
Now are these companies stealing everything and possibly opening up a cesspit that their platforms will fall into? Absolutely. These tools are literally removing the ability for them to advertise because they are leading to less link traffic that would have google ads or otherwise and also the degradation of search tools... but by god its super useful for now
only real problem for me personally is that it gives low barrier to entry to ask about any question that pops in my ADHD brain, so I keep having more and more questions that never stop. Learning a lot tho
Having it do a search then summarize the content from the search in one step is really handy. Basically skips the step of regular search oping a bunch of the links looking for relevant info.
AND it provides the source / references so you can easily click and read the actual page the info came from.
Google's built-in chatbot search "experiment" seems to do the same thing. It's kind of neat.
Not available in Canada apparently (bard version).. however bing is...
You enable it here: https://labs.google.com/search/experiments (You may have already found this but just in case you didn't.)
Ya on desktop it states it is not available in Canada, I am not seeing any option in the mobile app.
Fairly sure they have limited it to the US only.
It recently opened up to other countries, I'm just kind of surprised Canada wasn't one of them.
From the FAQ / About page.. I think they only opened it up to MORE in the US not other countries.