Comment on Google Search Really Has Gotten Worse, Researchers Find

GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• cloudless@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is why I use Bing Chat for specific questions.

  “Hello, this is Bing. I’m sorry to hear that you had sinus surgery and that you’re feeling cold. 😟

  According to some sources, it’s best to avoid exposure to smoke, dust, and other irritants after sinus surgery, as they can interfere with the healing process and cause inflammation. Therefore, lighting a fireplace fire may not be a good idea for your recovery.”

  Bing Chat provides sources to the claims so you can verify:

  realself.com/…/cambridge-ks-pain-sinuses-weeks-af… www.healthline.com/health/phantosmia

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  • GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That is really good to know! Thanks so much for the heads up on this! Never knew this was a thing.

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    • roze_sha@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You can also use perplexity.ai if Bing ai is not your cup of tea.

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      • necrophagist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Was just going to say, I’ve been defaulting to perplexity way more recently. It is really good (even the free tier)

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• lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Your story is obviously anecdotal but I think it pretty much aligns with what what we’ve all experienced. You search for something and get results for something else. You change your search to try to get results you asked for and get… literally the exact same results. It’s infuriating.

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  • GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep. Unless you’re looking for direct info like- what actor was in that one movie- type of thing….

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• Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  For me the specific question remains unanswered. There are a lot of results about the health effects on respiration, but none about specifically after a sinus surgery. Might be a question so specific that the internet at large has no answer to it.

  What I do not get (on Google, search from Germany) is what you describe, my results are all relevant on the first 3 pages barring 2 results about the surgery instead of the fireplace.

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  • GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yep. It might just be a really weird ask. Like… no one has ever considered it. Meanwhile, I’m sitting here without a fire.

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can’t you ring up your usual doctor to ask? Or well, I guess you’d need to call a lung specialist, but they ought to be able to answer that, no? Or your surgeon who did the surgery.

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      • GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well, I have an ENT that performed the surgery, but he’s not available overnight for questions.

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• Octopus1348@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What about DuckDuckGo?

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  • sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    DDG uses Bing’s results. Bing has deteriorated less than Google but it’s also becoming worse every day.

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    • Carighan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And it started out much worse, so eh, it still works worse for me than Google.

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    • ratcliff@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bing AND Yandex

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    • nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It doesn’t use just bing anymore: duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/…/sources/

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      • euchriduk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That page is pretty misleading, though: it’s mostly talking about ‘Instant Amswers’ which is its AI (presumably) paid partnership answer bot thing at the top of the results. Further down, it says: “Of course, we have more traditional links and images in our search results too, which we largely source from Bing.”

        So, although they don’t use Bing exclusively, that’s where the majority of non AI-answer-bot stuff is coming from. And I’m guessing the AI is Bing/Microsoft powered anyway, although I can’t be sure.

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• EmergMemeHologram@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t the answers section very very hit or miss

  Often it will link you to a highlighted section with noting relevant.

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