Microsoft was caught testing way too many ads on its Bing Search results page. I saw 9 ads and only two organic/free listings on the page for a query on [garage door repair].
I’m sure both people who use Bing are furious
Ew.
Next up they might test making the whole first page for ads, and the pages after that for search results.
Hell, why even have organic search results at all? Just rank results by how much each site owner is willing to
bribepay. A protection racket for the 21st century.“That’s a nice website you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if it got no visitors.”
This is Bing we’re talking about, the website owner may not even notice.
Gross but also… kinda curious from an A/B testing perspective to know when the user drop off happens. Kind of like, what’s the pain threshold before someone stops using shitty software. The answer really should be zero but the average user… ugh, it’s probably fucking 8 or 9 and we should be ashamed.
Too bad is Bing so the sample size is too small for any meaningful results.
Do people actually use Bing??? Apart from the ms reward
Yup! It provides the results for DuckDuckGo.
I started using and paying for Kagi. Fuck Google and Microsoft.
I’d love to use Kagi but I’m too poor for their pro subscription (and I use too many search queries)
