Despite the arrival of a chatbot close to ChatGPT in Bing, Microsoft’s search engine continues to fail to interest the crowd.
With the explosion of ChatGPT at the beginning of 2023, Microsoft, as a partner of Bing, had apparently made a good move. The Redmond company had in fact, before all its major competitors, been able to equip itself with a generative AI directly from GPT 3.5, then GPT 4.0, to equip its in-house Bing search engine. The ace ! Unfortunately, it was not enough to give some momentum to this always forgotten rival of Google.
Bing’s numbers aren’t taking off
Microsoft has a head start in generative AI, as shown by the continued advancements of ChatGPT. And one of the group’s major objectives is to transform the way Internet users do their research. In a word: “get rid of” Google!
Unfortunately for the firm founded by Bill Gates, we are still far from there. This is what figures from Stat Counter, a tool for monitoring search volumes on the web, show. According to the latter, which are transmitted by Windows Central, the share of searches carried out on Bing in the United States would have increased from 7.4 to 6.9% in one year. It would therefore have declined despite the arrival of Bing AI!
The chatbot, not yet up to Google?
In comparison, over the same period, Google’s share in the United States in the same segment grew from 86.7 to 88%. Suffice to say that the major balances have not only not been changed, but that things are even going a little better for Google.
An astonishing result when we know that Bing AI has not only remained a chatbot, but that it has gradually integrated extremely powerful new features, such as image recognition, and even a function for generating images. picture.
Wouldn’t the problem rather be that AI does not yet provide optimal services compared to a traditional search engine? And so technology still does not sort information as well as a human faced with around ten options offered by the first page of Google?
Source : Windowscentral
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