The day before, Microsoft launched the new Bing on the web and within it’s Edge browser, which is powered by a mix of a new OpenAI GPT model and Microsoft’s own Prometheus model. This means that Microsoft has jumped past Google when it came to bringing this type of search experience into the general public, but we’ll probably witness the competition gaining momentum within the coming months. We’ve had the chance to test the new Bing and, as Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said in his press event, “It’s a new day for search.”
In the moment, Microsoft is gating access to the brand new Bing along with its AI features through an unofficial waiting list. You can sign-up for it on this page. Microsoft claims it will provide the next experience the world to many millions of people over the next few weeks. I’ve also used it with the new development version of Edge for both Mac as well as Windows.
First thing that you’ll be able to notice once you begin to use Bing is that Bing now has a more extensive query prompt, as well as an additional set of details for users who might not be keeping up to date with all the changes in Bing. Bing now asks users to “ask me anything” -that’s what it says. If you’d like to continue searching with keywords, then it’ll gladly employ them however you’ll get the most results if you ask an open-ended question.
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I believe Microsoft has found the perfect equilibrium between old-fashioned search results, which are linked-centric, and the newest AI features. If you’re asking it for an answer that is based on fact the majority of times, it will show the results that are powered by AI right at page one of results page. If you’re looking for more detailed, longer responses, it’ll show them to the sidebar. Typically, it’ll display three possible chat questions beneath the result pages (they look a bit like Google’s Smart Chips in Google Docs) that will then take users to the chat interface. The animation is short that removes the chat interface off the front of your page. You can also move your finger upwards and down to change between the chats.
Sometimes, this can be not always the case, because Bing can sometimes seem to overlook that this experience is even available, such as recipes, which Bing has showcased in its demos (“give me an example of banana bread”). It’s possible to switch to the chat mode and experience the brand-new AI experience however it can be difficult to figure out why you get it for one search and not the other. It’s also difficult to know what time the brand new AI experience will show up on the right-hand sidebar. While there are certain search terms that the new Bing experience isn’t needed I believe that people will anticipate seeing it each whenever they type in a query.
