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OpenAI’s next product could try to challenge Google's search supremacy
After ChatGPT's success, search could be the next frontier
It didn’t take long for other big players in the artificial intelligence space to shoot back at Google. Just last week, Google unveiled Gemini, which is really Bard AI with new clothes. Google rebranded its AI chatbot (Bard), which ran off of the Gemini large language model, to encourage synergy across its AI features (but, if we’re being honest, it just shows Google’s inability to brand properly once again). OpenAI, which gained recognition for its ChatGPT chatbot, is reportedly working on a direct competitor to Google in AI-powered search.
The year has only started and I'm already sick of hearing about AI
Marketing is predictably running the term AI straight into the ground
I didn't buy into the AI hype in late 2022. After all, I was still invested in the VR hype. Remember the metaverse? You know, the great new buzzword that replaced crypto and web3. Never mind, I was told the metaverse is dead. Long live AI! Microsoft slapped AI into everything the moment it partnered with ChatGPT, and Google quickly followed suit with Bard. Samsung, Intel, and even Apple are falling over themselves to create AI...stuff. It's only been a year, and I'm already sick of hearing about AI and how it's shipping in everything. The buzzword has worn out its welcome.
What is Bing Image Creator?
Discover Bing Image Creator's AI power, turning your words into beautiful visuals
A picture is worth a thousand words, but what if you could generate thousands of pictures with one sentence? Almost every area of our lives has been affected by artificial intelligence (AI), reshaping how we create and interact with digital content. If content is king, visual content is the emperor, and now everyone can make stunning AI-based visual content.
It's no secret that Google rules when it comes to search engines. Its competitor, Microsoft, has been trying to keep up, and its latest attempt is integrating AI into Bing to create Bing AI Chat. The AI chatbot, powered by OpenAI's ChatGPT, accepts text input for help with research, coding, and writing essays. It also accepts image input, meaning you can upload any image and ask Bing AI Chat for more information about the picture. It doesn't matter whether you use a laptop, PC, one of the best Samsung phones, a Google Pixel, or another Android phone. Bing AI Chat works on all devices.
Bing AI finally works on Google Chrome, but it's still better on Microsoft Edge
The ChatGPT-powered AI experience is rolling out to Google Chrome with some caveats
The digital technology arena, dominated by giants like Google and Microsoft, is a hotbed of competitive innovation, especially when it comes to artificial intelligence. This competition has produced notable events like the advent of Bing's AI Chat on Android phones and the incident where Bing inaccurately generated an AI response for a Google Chrome search. Amidst this backdrop of rivalry and innovation, Microsoft has expanded the availability of their Bing AI chat experience, powered by ChatGPT and previously only available on the Edge browser, to now include Google Chrome.
How to use Bing AI Chat on your Android phone
Use SwiftKey's Bing AI Chat integration to write emails and office documents in just a few taps
AI is the hottest buzzword in the tech industry right now. Using OpenAI's ChatGPT, you can boost your productivity and offload many mundane tasks to the AI tool. Microsoft has been quick to integrate ChatGPT across its products, including SwiftKey, which is among our favorite Android keyboard apps. Dubbed Bing AI Chat, you can use the tool to compose emails or messages, rephrase the tone of what you've written, get new ideas surrounding a topic, chat with the AI about a topic, and more.
Microsoft Bing Rewards will pay your for searching the web. Here's how it works
Make money while giving Google the side-eye
When doing a quick search for a query, you whip out your top-of-the-line 5G phone, launch your browser, and type the question. And you get the answer pretty much instantly. While you don't pay much attention to it, a search engine behind the scenes pulls up the results you see and in the order they're arranged.
Bing briefly faked an AI response when searching for Google Chrome
This doesn't look generative, Microsoft
Despite Microsoft's best efforts to make Edge the best web browser, it's still used by many as a means to download their actual browser of choice, Google Chrome. Over the years, we've seen and cringed at, Microsoft's best efforts to keep users from using its competitor's products, which has been going on for years. The browser, the search engine, and even the actual operating system will practically beg you to please keep using Microsoft's products. Now, using Bing's new AI-fueled experience to look up a download link for Google Chrome has yielded a new result.
Microsoft wants Firefox to make Bing its default search engine
Not even by switching browsers will you be able to escape Bing
Historically, Microsoft's Bing has always played second fiddle to Google. Chances are that if you used it, it was because you fired up a Microsoft-made browser (Internet Explorer back in the day or Edge now) and either quickly replaced it or changed its default search engine to Google. With Microsoft diving right into the AI craze with its ChatGPT partnership, though, Bing experienced a small renaissance, and the company is riding that wave to make sure people actually start using Bing. One strategy? Microsoft might go after Firefox in an attempt to make Bing the browser's default search engine.
Microsoft supercharges SwiftKey Beta with Bing Chat AI integration
The chatbot can rephrase your text or browse the web for you
With the AI arms race heating up, it's no surprise that tech behemoths like Microsoft are refocusing their efforts on incorporating AI into all of their products. In February, Microsoft integrated Bing AI smarts into the Bing Mobile app and Skype, aiming to be the first tech titan to bring massive language models to the mainstream. To that end, the Bing chatbot is now being integrated into another Microsoft product, SwiftKey Beta.
Microsoft plots superpowered Bing app to break the dominance of Apple and Google
How well could a WeChat work outside of China?
Microsoft unceremoniously flopped out of the mobile ecosystem wars in late 2019 with the death of Windows Mobile. The company has tried to make up for it by offering its services on the platforms it tried to compete against while also embracing a number of integrations with Android. Still, it seems the company has ambitions to give customers of Apple and Google another compelling choice for online search, shopping, payments, and a lot more. Microsoft could do so by turning to a strategy that's seen success in Asia.
Who even uses Bing? Google, apparently — when it needs to weasel out of massive fines
Drops a nice stat, but it may be irrelevant
Google's claiming pure superiority over other search engines as the reason why it should not pay $5 billion to the European Union. The company is in the middle of appealing the commission's record fine from 2018 when it was deternined that the online search giant was able to ensure the dominance of its services over competing ones through the popularity of Android devices.
Bing to the rescue: Microsoft happy to step in if Google pulls out of Australia
This marks the first time anyone's actually looked forward to Bing
Google threatened to leave the Australian market if the local government pulls through with a law that would require search engines to pay publishers for linking to news articles. The threat hasn't gone down well, and in a turn of events that shouldn't surprise anyone, smaller competitors are ready to step in should Google pull through with its decision if the law is passed. Microsoft is ready to agree and work with the Australian government going forward, just like DuckDuckGo.
DuckDuckGo not pleased that Bing and Yandex won big in latest Android search choice screen auction
Says Google's slot auction model is not a solution to E.U. compliance
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Google has announced the winners of this quarter's auction for default search engine options on Android devices in the Europe. In most of the EEA plus the U.K., users setting up their new phone or tablet starting October 1 will likely have to choose between using Google, Bing, GMX, Info.com, or Yandex.
Microsoft caught sneaking Bing search onto phones with the Outlook app
This is not the right way to get me to use Bing
Microsoft might be the market leader when it comes to desktop operating systems, but its aspirations for search have remained depressingly dismal. Currently, less than 3% of online searches are conducted via Microsoft's Bing search engine, but the company is trying to bump that number up by any means necessary... apparently even spammy additions to its Outlook app on Android.
Bing Wallpapers app launches with daily updates to your background (APK Download)
New photos every day from some fantastic photographers
While the search engine wars haven't been particularly kind to Bing, fans of the service often praise it for updating the home page with beautiful and interesting background photos each day. It has been so popular that it has sparked a small following, and there are several wallpaper apps dedicated to pulling the images from Bing's homepage to use as wallpapers on our phones. Microsoft has even delivered the same functionality a couple times in the past with its Bing search app and a now-defunct lockscreen app; but if you don't want all of the extra weight that comes with those, Bing now has a new app dedicated to just doing wallpapers.
Yahoo was an internet heavyweight during the early years of the internet—before Google, of course. Today, Yahoo is a shell of its former self as a subsidiary of Verizon with no real search product of its own. It's trying to build one, though. The company's new One Search is available on the web and via an Android app. It's just Bing with some added features, but Yahoo promises it's really secure.
Late last year, SwiftKey keyboard added a built-in search feature, much like Gboard's web search. Since SwiftKey is owned by Microsoft, it naturally used Bing as the search engine. However, the company quietly added Google as a search engine option in a recent update.
Much like Gboard and its Google Search integration, Microsoft-owned SwiftKey added Bing as a search feature in its last big release, which we're sure wasn't a popular addition. Thankfully, a new update is now available that changes Bing search to a small button in the toolbar and allows you to remove it if you don't want it.
Your keyboard probably spends more time up on your screen than most apps, so it's only natural that developers have sought to make it more useful. For example, Gboard has search and translation integration. SwiftKey is still playing catch up when it comes to service integration, but it's taking a big step today with Bing search. Why Bing? Because Microsoft owns SwiftKey.