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If this announcement regards GPT+Bing, I hope MS is savvy enough to also use this as a rebranding moment for Bing.

"Bing: now with GPT!" doesn't roll of the tongue.

If this is truly an inflection point for Bing, give it a new branding. Leave Bing in the recycling bin.

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Microsoft Azure Bing Intelligence Search Engine Services, Ultimate Signature Edition [1].

[1] https://kevinstreet.co.uk/2018/12/24/windows-vista-ultimate-...

(I added Ultimate Signature Edition, the rest was brought to you by ChatGPT.)

You're missing the Millenium XP Service Pack 4 somewhere in the name.

with VirusTotal Defender Protection DLC.

Exactly. It will be a huge misstep if they don't take the opportunity to do a rebranding here.

It's not that Bing is terrible (well the name is, but that could be arguable). It's that after at all of these years Bing has become - deserving of it or not - synonymous with mediocre. When it comes to search, it's not even thought of as 'second best' - it's more like 'last resort' (or even "I'm feeling lucky")

I have a friend who uses it often for porn...

They could rebrand as Internet Explorer on the Edge. Sounds more like a search engine anyway.

Just go with EdgeSearch. Then, instead of "googling something", we would be edging to get a result to a problem.

Keep it simple, just call it AskGPT

I’ve been thinking that AskMeAnything would be a good name for a ChatGPT-like service, but I guess they need a name that also works for the non-English-speaking world.

Dear god. This is a great idea. But obviously a terrible idea at the same time.

It needs to be anthropomorphized. Maybe something like Jeeves.

Jeeves on Edge.

With a ridiculously strung out butler that hasn't slept in years, too much caffeine and the like, and a bit of an attitude.

In this case, it's the internet but without the "edge" (which is good in most business instances)

Interchat Explorer

Why would MS add it to bing? MS does not control the web browser anymore, but they do control the windows default search box. Why would they enter in competition with google when they can steal people's attention to their own ecosystem? It would be more valuable for them to add it there, and integrate it with windows applications. Windows would become a super-app. Google can still curate the web, which is now just a training dataset

This blog post claims it will be called “the new Bing”: https://medium.com/@owenyin/scoop-oh-the-things-youll-do-wit...

The joke is that "Bing" is an acronym:

But It's Not Google.

Following that pattern, Edge should have been called Zinc.

should have been: "Bing Is Not Google"

Bing, with a bang gives boom!

When you do a bang! search it processes it through chatGPT and boom! (there it is)

It's such a particularly bad name. Just absolutely awful.

I genuinely think that there's some people that don't use it just because of the name, or at least are very resistant to it - and I say that because I am one of them.

Not just branding, it's a category creation opportunity. What is past search. ChatGPT allows for a more fluid question, answer, discussion type experience than search.

Chat Chat Go?

That would obviously be BinGo.

Might confuse the elderly, but yes.

You won. Plain and simple.

Bing -> Bong

https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Bing_Bong

https://youtu.be/poz6W0znOfk

A lot of the jokes/suggestions here still include GPT which seems like the least brandable acronym in the world

It might be, but it’s already a brand because of chatgpt, so it shouldn’t matter that much

What brand it has is worth putting in the trash. Would be better to start over if they're going to actually push to a wider consumer market. The techies and early adopters will understand.

Clippy?

They could call it Altered Vista.

Clippy

BinGPT

You're welcome.

AskGPT. Although it would probably be good not to use GPT.

ChatGPT - GPT + Bing, contract to remove the B, ChatIng.

I vote for the name “Open”

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