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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist

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Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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Australian users of Bluesky and Mastodon were surprised yesterday to find Bing was informing them that the country they were in didn't actually exist.
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    Google isn’t even sure so at least Bing is providing an answer, not that the wrong answer is great

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      Bing gets you answers fast.

      they didn’t say they’d be the right answer tho.

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      At least Ecosia delivers

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        Imagine using ecosia in 2023. You’re being scammed my friend haha

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          What kinda scam do you mean. I’m using it since 2017 or so and never heard of it.

          (Please don’t recommend me DuckDuckGo - I’d rather use Startpage or Qwant for personal reasons)

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      Kagi also believes Australia is not real

      Edit: this also shows up if i set the region to Australia

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        Mine shows a bit more context, did you crop it out or is it just a difference in settings?

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          I cropped it out

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