Bing’s Not the Laughingstock of Technology Anymore
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It is my impression that most users are completely unaware of the effect changing region on bing have and that bing is amazing if you do.
So odd that default setting, for most, is non-US and for those user Bing is still very much a laughingstock compared to Google.
US and non-US bing is not the same product. Non-US lacks most of the cool features found on the US version so why non-US is the default is something that has pusseled me for years. Very odd behavior to degrade your own product the way Microsoft does with Bing.
People go on and on about Facebook and Google, but I've been really impressed with Microsoft. They're making some really great, innovative products - and they're turning a nice profit too.
(yes, I realize Bing is just a Google clone, but I'm talking more generally about the company)
But the last few years have shown that Microsoft under Nadella is a completely different animal. Ten years ago, if someone told me that one of the best IDEs on the Linux desktop would be an MIT-licensed project from Microsoft, I'd have thought they were drunk, crazy, and high. But lo and behold, we have VS Code, and it's awesome. There's MS engineers contributing code to the Linux kernel. One of the best ad-blocking web browsers on Android is Microsoft Edge. A Debian distro (albeit one without a Linux kernel) is a 1st-party app on the Windows app store.
It's gotten to the point where I'm seriously wondering how much code under the hood of their prototype demo "Modern OS" is from Microsoft, and how much is actually from Canonical. They're already adding a proper Linux kernel for WSL2.
Interesting times.
Now of course they do try their best to keep illegal things from getting indexed. Not talking about that.