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Study: Bing search results suck in entirely new and profound ways
Bing continues to surprise in all the wrong ways.
The Microsoft search engine has long been the butt of jokes for its perceived failings as, you know, a search engine, but a new Stanford study suggests its true faults are significantly more troubling. Specifically, according to the report, Bing returns disinformation, conspiracy theories, and white supremacist content at an alarming rate.
Bing's popularity as a search engine has waxed and waned over the years, with its 2017 global market share of 9 percent declining to a solid 5.27 percent in more recent days. But don't get it twisted, as 5 percent of global market share still represents a sizable chuck of users. And those users, note study authors Daniel Bush and Alex Zaheer, are being fed a disproportionate amount of crap. Read more...
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