Why Bing Isn't a Failure (& the Future of the Internet)
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CORRECTION: There’s incredible power to data in the hands of companies operating at immense scale.
It’s why there’s now a movement to limit this,
why companies like Digi.me, who I’ve previously mistaken for a data collection company, actually let users manage and safeguard their
information.
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Bing is laughed at but it’s actually a profitable product, which demonstrates the power of the control tech companies can have.
*The end of this video includes a paid sponsored promotion. This company had no part in the writing, editing, or production of the rest of the video.
*Clarification: The top Bing searches at the beginning is from a satire website (although I suspect they're not far off from the truth) www.thebeaverton.com/2012/07/...
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Digi.me: digi.me
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Correction: At 6:53 I incorrectly mention Digi.me as a service you can sell your data to for use by third parties. They are not an example of such a service. Instead, they offer the ability to see and manage data already stored by third parties. Apologies for the mistake.
Yeah, opened them straight away and they didn't seem to be that type of service :/ . Anyway, just to be fair, AMP sites are a lot lighter typically then the original sites as the (very well written, and well optimized) AMP libraries themselves (which you described as garbage) are most likely already cached on the users PC/phone from the first time they opened an AMP sites. And beyond that: yes, AMP news articles end up in the carousel which doesn't allow (I believe) non AMP sites (might be mistaken), but as far as normal ranking goes AMP sites don't get ranked higher, the AMP-boost is caused by higher pagespeed and load time rankings (which a technical programmer can achieve without AMP as well, AMP just makes it simpler for less capable programmers).
What would be an example????
Aha I downloaded the app straight away and was kinda disappointed :D
Sir Your graphic design presentation is owsm , In which Software did make this video
PolyMatter what kind of tools you use to make videos
Sad thing is, if they had used "Bang" instead of "Bing", they would of had a hit on their hands.
Don't know something? You should bang it!
😄😄😄facts
Bang . Com?
Than bangbros would be their daughter company 😂
😂😂😂😂😂 this comment is underrated af!!
Even better... don't know somebody? Bang them!
Little know fact: email addresses use to be "bang paths".
That was the smoothest advertisement transition ever
And illegal in some countries (for a good reason). Other than that, I liked the video.
hahaha was thinking the same thing
why illegal?
because u might be tricked into thinking you aren't being sold something and just presented unbiased information.
Co-op Chefs they need to explicitly state the sponsorship or that it's an ad, one of the Jenners/Katrashians got in trouble last year or so for this, he should have said today's episode is sponsored by or something to that effect
Me : I'm poor , what should I do
Google : find a job
Bing : become a gangster
Becoming
Breaking Bad Intro comes in
Rob a bank
Actually, that is a very false meme.
@w wtf reddit cirno
“I use Facebook more than internet”-my grandma
😂
Same. 🤦🏻
You or your grandma😅
Maybe she use Facebook without Internet
@ok :0
Bing is like the only source for us Chinese students to do research in English cus Google's banned
Why is it banned
@@strongfatman2014 has Bailey removed a comment or am I not understanding how Bailey is a racist. If, then tell me how
The Diamond Gamer ikr
Why not VPN?
@@semgas they're illegal in the mainland
I use Bing because Google accused me of being a robot
Stop using free proxies then.
@@shuushirakawa i'm using hide my ass vpn
Detroit become human 🤖🤖🚶♂️🐋🚶🏻♀️🚶🏽♂️
Check your circuits you damn johnny 5
Knock it off! We know you ARE a robot. Nothing wrong with that though. Some of my best friends are robots
Summary:
- Bing is default on windows.
Also it's because of Ecosia.
and 82% of the world's computers are windows
@@Atomic866 I reckon you meant to say 'desktop computers'. Nowadays there are many things that are computers. Embedded devices, phones, supercomputers and so on usually don't run Windows.
Ecosia is powered by Bing.
Yeah, I use it every day and I don't care lol.
82 % pc run Windows
And rest 18 % run pirated windows
nah the pirateds count 2 the 18% are aplle users
Comment is under rated
@@yourni8tm4r39*cough cough* school chromebooks?
@Vinnie Data well said
Linux: hold my beer..
i didn’t even realize it was an advertisement at first, thought he was transitioning to another topic
same here I was surprised since I'm usually so quick to skip or pause in-video ads
Ryan Smith it damn well sucks. The thing is full of adds like the MS phone.
I guess the author is loving these comments
This is the most fucked up video I have seen in a while. They are lying out of their teeth, and using that as a new way to gain a bigger market share. Bings current Market share is below 3%.......Trump Ideology seems to work in this era, kinda fucked up
zengara11 What’s with you people and blaming everything on Trump? Lol. Must be super obsessed with the guy.
“Bing: the best way to Google something.”
_John Oliver_
Can we give the smaller sites a chance? Like Ecosia, ecosia.org /(;^;)\
Super Mario Player it’s not the same!
@@carlosgomez-ct6ki That's the point
@@aslamawan4594 Abselutly! If I get a business, that will be our main site ;)
Fk
Me: **searches Cooking food on bing***
Bing: catch a ostrage and yeet it so hard
As an Indonesian i've never heard someone here said "Facebook is the Internet"
As an Asian person, i agree. I never see that information before
As a Nigerian. I have no idea what he’s talking about neither.
@@samnguyenthi3092 In poorer countries, Facebook is synonymous with internet. Some probably rotate between Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp which is all owned by Facebook
i tried this facebook internet thing and yes its all just facebook.
Internet ≠ Facebook
Alexa, google bing.
*internet breaks*
Cortana, Bing Google*
best 10 anime plot twists
I'm sorry Dave, I'm unable to do that for you.
I really want someone with an Alexa to ask it that.
Summary:
Is Bing a failure?
Well, yes, but actually no.
@@sandeepks777 you just missed an entire meme. he didnt want an explanation. just google "well yes but actually no"
appreciate the explanation though.
@Sandeep K S r/woooosh
@@tarcseh2 >names who he is responding to
>tries to think of insult
>"nonamer"
@Fr0sti yea go back to reddit
@@sandeepks777 wow... you're really dumb.
3:17 is that 2NE1 - "I am the best" playing at background?
Karik Darang yesssss 😭 I got so excited. Haha 💕
I was looking for this comment 😂😂
I can’t believe this is the only comment I found of this 😢
yepp
naega jaeil jal naga
9:00
me: "This is clearly going to transition into a Skillshare ad..."
Close enough
Me: How to build a bomb
Google: Bath bomb
Bing: ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉)
qweasdqwe I laughed HARD
Use yandex for that, oh those russians
Hahahaha
@@jakerad9553 I DONT GET IT :'(
Demonic Archangel because Bing doesn’t censor its search engine like google does
Man I miss Windows Phone. Those live tiles were so cool. The app store never really took off though.
Facts!! 😤😤💪🏻💪🏻✊🏻💯🌱😢
Still got my 640 XL, would keep it for the nostalgia for as long as it survives. Lol
I loved my Windows Phone, it just sucks that the app store was lacking everything else was smooth.
If Windows Phones had stuff on the app stores then they would be better than apple or android.
Exactly, the OS itself was pretty nice, it just didn't have enough third party apps.
this video aged like wine tbh
How to speak Chinese
Google: learn Mandarin Chinese
Bing: Chilling
"Bing: 敕令"?
Me: how do I make money easily?
Google: 10 easy jobs that pay well
Bing: rob a bank and print out counterfeit
Lol
literally when you google "Suicide", Google tells you to call Anti-Suicide department, while bing shows you ways to do suicide.
@@StromcekDavid Lol 😂
@@clickbaitprommonyv nknlhhhi88j9i
NotFromUkraine honesty is always better. But those google @£&&@ can’t even let a single soul rest
We use bing at school, because sometimes google decides to give us captcha, because it thinks we are bots (a lot of student googling).
Son Gokuu we use a modified version of windows, where you can log into the school servers and upon login, you can see that registry entries are overtaken from your account (if it‘s a student account, the server will give your PC the specific rights, so you can‘t do bad stuff). I think Chrome wants to be installed into Program files and that is an important folder for the PC, so the registry is modified so you can‘t delete or add anything there; at our school you must login via an admin account, or via the local account which has all permission. You might have a local administrator, try to install Chrome into the documents folder or something or just download the exe.
@Son Gokuu kuku just install ubuntu on other partition
It sounds like you know a lot about computers for a young age.
James Hackett yea I have a kind of syndrom that I have to know everything about something I have a lot of interest in and have to go to the fundamentals as well, such as the transistor circuits that form gates and memory and all that stuff.
@@Cyber_One Yup. At my school, only way to forcefully shove a program in there was to get a hard drive or usb stick and put the file on. No downloads allowed.
The Microsoft phone actually was useful. It was like having a office in your pocket.
*"So that's why bing isn't a failure... On other notes, this video is sponsored by BING"*
But it is sponsored by brilliant.
THAT was the smoothest freaking lead-in to an ad I have ever seen
David Nasibyan the person who hosts the infographics channel has been doing that for a while now. I think the host of this channel picked it up from there
I have to admit, I enjoyed the "how do you like them apples" pun.
We'll very likely get to a point where Google gets into trouble with their search engine. It's getting increasingly difficult to search for certain things. For example, when you search for a manufacturer, in certain cases, it can actually be really difficult to google for the manufacturer's website, unless that manufacturer pays Google to promote their website in searches - simply because results from online shops will be forwarded to the top. A real world example - when searching for the discounts at a local store, google will forward sites which list discounts of multiple different stores and display a ton of ads, and the website of the actual store is almost at the end of the first page of search results. What's worse, Google no longer marks forwarded searches as advertisement and without making it apparent, they'll cover more than 60% of the page with what are essentially ads.
Summary:
Is Bing a failure?
Well, yes, but actually it's Brilliant.
I see what you did there
I would like a 5 billion dollar failure though
bing bang bong
right?? it's so hard to follow his train of arguments
1:37 "17 percents in Canada" *pie charts show like 30%*
Canadian percents are subject to an import tariff
Same
This pies shows the same % LEL
he doesn't understand how to use pie charts
I feel like bing tries it’s hardest to make my simple search as complicated as possible.
what bullshit
TH-cam: *sees title
Also TH-cam: *laughs in google*
Most searches on bing were:
-Google.com
-how to get Google
-how to delete bing
@@nemzecski Bing isn't a web browser
@Eragor the Kindhearted duckduckgo ;)
@@MJ-uk6lu you just hurt my brain cells
i use bing
@Riman Dsk yeah
I feel so bad for the people thinking they have the "internet", when they only have facebook.
Michael Henry people in those countries are pretty Gullible
+Dank Maymays42069 I don't exactly blame them. They don't know any better when it comes to internet stuff.
Dank Maymays42069 This is the poorest of poor people, who have not been blessed to be raised in front of computer screens.
Yeah it’s such a sad story
I don't have Facebook. 😐
The top 6 searches got me laughing for about 2 minutes lol.
This video aged extremely well in 2023. We are in the cusp of changing search forever with AI power and bing is ahead.
Bing AI sucks
@@TpbrautBing AI is amazing
@@MicCheckMemoirs nah
That sponsor ad at the end was so smooth
Kevin too smooth
César Omar Posada García Satamusic 🤔🤔🤔
It's becoming a problem however. The line between content and sponsored content is blurred and it's not apparent when one ends and the other begins. Imagine if your favorite TV show character started advertising a product to you at the end of an episode....
gsdfgshertyerh seems normal for a tv star
Name a TV show that airs today that has sponsored content interwoven dialogue by the characters.. It doesn't happen. Sure stars promote shit on the side but not _on the show_
Plot twist: This is just a bing advertisement trying to make you use it
dude the transition to sponsor was so smooth ! well done
That was a really smooth transition to the sponsorship. Well done.
This video is very well made but reminds me of all the reasons I hate big tech companies.
>Monopolies, bullying of smaller businesses, spying on users, forcing users to use features they don't want, exploiting developing countries.... etc
That's capitalism for you
Be thankful its not North Korea
Well linux is for you then
Use duck go go
duck still has pretty limited search results @@sambalbalado2704
@@Rose-bw8kd that's consequences
Bing and Internet Explorer get a huge amount of their use from government and corporate computers. There are often limits to what individual users are allowed to download (especially on classified computers), and often employees just don't care to, even if they are allowed, since it's just their work computer anyway.
He was right all along. All hail Bing + ChatGPT
Your videos are both informative and witty! A quality found in few other channels.
8:56 Smoothest transition into an ad i think I have ever seen.
yes ,the best one yet!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah, right?
I think I've seen better smooth ad transitions elsewhere too...
so basically its because Bing comes preloaded in microsoft and people are often lazy, right?
and/or incompetent.
true.
have you watched the video?
And because of Bing Rewards. I've made quite a lot of money using it. I've referred friends and family too. Money talks.
Same, why pay for stuff like gold when Bing gives it to you.
*Microsoft Watching This* Let's fix it
as long as they pay me to use it, im using it. once they stop im going right back to duckduckgo.
Ok, a defense for edge. It makes a more lightweight PDF reader
Edgy
Sumatra PDF 💪
edge is a built in pdf viewer and a way for kids in schools to access system files
Their new Chromium base is really awesome
Yup fair enuf adobe is annoying
Answer:
(B)ecause(I)t's(N)ot(G)oogle
Николай II Pоманов XD DAB
That is actually pretty clever.
Николай II Pоманов MS should totally run that campaign.
Thank you bros
You are cleverer than the entire Microsoft Marketing team, who failed to see how they can market bing :D
Your segways into advertisements are so slick. Well done.
Elon Musk: "We will give everyone free internet"
Mark Zuckerberg: "I see what you did there"
Lul
So true!!! “Facebook is the internet”.... that is literally my parents understand of internet.
Enlighten them.
Thats disgusting,. And creepy .
40 yr old white parent in a nutshell
A huge part of it though anyway
Ecosia will take over, *and it will* . You can't stop 'em planting trees. =))))
smh Why you gotta diss Bing? Obviously Duck Duck is the way to Go.
Andrew Singer I switched to DuckDuckGo and honestly, it makes me feel safer without the prying eyes of google and other companies. Would definitely recommend.
duck duck go is trash google uses an advanced machine learning algorithm it does not censor data this is a made a conspiracy theory by people from duck duck go they are probably the ones that would manipulate search results
@@moderizhaan9497 Not true, google is definitely censoring results in certain countries. Like for example a ton of non-childfriendy sites or warez pages get left out of the search results in germany. Not because of DMCAs, but because official bodies of the country declared it illegal. They also display legal warnings at the top when searching for specific terms. Even when you simply want to look up information on a matter, they already treat you like a potential criminal.
I use duck duck go for porn
@@LucyKosaki ever heard of safesearch in google you can turn it off to view non-childfriendly sites as for other countries it's their fault if google did not implement this system google would get banned from the country like they got banned in china you can always bypass this by using VPN.
My favorite contend Creator.
Thank you for putting these videos together.
I always look forward to seeing your videos.
Have a great day today.
I started using bing ironically 7 years ago.. I never stopped, It’s not bad at all.
Holy crap, that was the smoothest ad transition I've ever seen.
That is true.
This seems familiar
you good stealing comments?
@@paasulla I mean isn't that what comments are now? Like FB, just want the likes. That's why people do that nobody: literally nobody:, thing. & other copied comments.
Its almost like you read the top comment and posted it again for likes.
that was the smoothest Segway to ad I've ever seen
Segue*
*Subway
*Subway, .eat fresh.
JK but the guy is a great salesman.
Yeah it was dope dawg! Sorry xD
Also the longest ad I've ever seen ;)
had to pause the video when 2ne1 i am the best started playing because i thought my music started playing in the background lmao. didnt expect that. great video as always.
No competitor comes close to Microsoft's text-to-speech feature on the Edge browser.
yes right
I can't understand if you are kidding or not
@@minecrafting_il he is not kidding he is saying the truth.....it can read a pdf also.....in several language this feature is in only in bing
@7:08 When a multibillion dollar multinational corporation "feels generous"; you (the people) should feel scared.
A company is always selling something. If they are not charging you any money then the product they are selling is you.
Kevin Smith oh look at me I'm mature!
Richmond Valentine is a classic example :)
i actually like bing for its image search, Microsoft's algorithm is actually more accurate than Google's for some reason. Try going to both websites and searching 'person riding bike while holding banana' or something to that affect and you will likely get more concise searches from Bing.
Edit: Also for what its worth Bing/Microsoft haven't removed the 'view image' button, 'search by image' button and other essential functions from their search engine
Eh, Bing is too minimalistic for my taste
Fruit500 seriously? The site featuring daily professional pictures as the background is more minimalistic than the site with literally just the word Google on it?
+Faris Firdaws Front page is just one part of the browsing experience. Layout, fonts, icon styles etc. are what makes Bing inferior (for me). It just looks too clean and empty, but that might probably be just because my Google view is heavily customized
+Fruit500 personally i'd rather neglect any aesthetic design choices in favor of the results I'm looking for
+AL3X2580 I mean sure, but for me at least Google shows every search well enough. But then again, I haven't really used Bing that much so I don't really know how well it compares
I use bing and take my $5-10 Amazon gift cards happily even if it takes a little longer lol
When i read the title i was like, whats wrong with Chandler Bing?!
Then i saw the thumnail 😂
BAHAHAHAHAH
That's one hell of a transition. So smooth
When Bing is the only search engine in your school that doesn't care about internet security (screw you google)
Try DuckDuckGo.
Jack Evans nope that's blocked too ;(
How about vpn?
You forgot to mention the Google vs Bing serch meme. Even I have tested these.
Would love to see a followup video on this topic
Unlike Goolag, the BING app doesn't pester me everytime to click on pictures of stairs and store fronts. I give it two thumbs up!
I love having to redo the same picture puzzle 10 times because the "correct" answer is not even fucking accurate just so I can train the A.I. that will enslave us one day
They programmed me like a dog I've got to say. I have about a 90% success rate these days
7:59 Lmao all these big companies are so "philanthropic" when it's all for control and data. Solid job calling it out
This video showed me why facebook is free in Nigeria
Someone told me about a space game in which someone spent 10 years circumnavigating all of the stay systems and I was trying to search it up for half an hour before realizing I was on Bing.
I used the exact same search query on Google and it was the first result.
Polymatter: Bing is the future of the internet!
Chromebooks: Wait, that's illegal!
you managed to keep this video interesting all way through, good job
ZimoNitrome yo wtf are you doing here
except the ad...
RaidyTJC he's not busy w/ wednesdays
6:40 "PLEASE DON'T DO IT MARK.....*whispers* "They're gonna do it" LMAO!!!!!
they already did it
7DOLLABEATS ,lol!
I had to do it to em.
HTC First says hi.
That ad transition was Brilliant
the smoothest transition to an ad
This whole video was an Ad for the plug in the end.
Sure, but still the part before the ad was really good! :-)
XD
The video so good you didn’t realize it’s actually an ad.
Holy hsit that was the first good transition into a sponsor I've ever seen on this channel and it was *FIRE!*
Bing is good for those late-night searches. The Bing algorithm even will recommend other vids and categories. Yeah, Bing is used for alternative browsing.
the next I knew, I was on a middle of an ad
ifkr
Fuckign hate that, I downvote just because of that
OmnissiahZelos init
True modern internet.
God your videos are so aesthetically pleasing. Amazing. I loved the 🤔 count
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Bing is Gaelic for “thy turkey is done”
professional shefs like me don't put garlic on chicken. we knwo it damages the temporal nowness of the resiliency in the flavor. creating a defacto ambulance upon which the meal's flow lies opposite and transcendental to the purpose intended.
Why is bing so bad?
Google: They give incorrect answers
Bing:
"...google, google, suicide, and hot sauce," I laughed out loud!
You forgot Goggle, Googlle and Googler.
9:10 that was way too smooth bro
Bruh that clean Switch to the advertisement
dang that sponsorship was so smooth that I'm subbing
I've started to lean further away from google recently. I feel like their algorithm is giving me information it thinks I want to see rather than accurate information. Bing has become a contender in the past for me, especially as someone who searches up a lot of technical questions.
Not leaning far enough, lol. Google owns TH-cam - along with roughly one third of all the internet advertisers, trackers, and data brokers.
Same, I switched to DuckDuckGo on my iPhone, because it promises to be unbiased as opposed to Google.
Bing gives you off topic shit
I would advice you to try duckduckgo there is a video on youtube on why should you switch to duckduckgo instead of google
Same. Even within the past few weeks I've been returning all sorts of junk and using google's long forgotten second page of results.
Bing's existence summarised:
"Google chrome found this file to be dangerous, and has removed it."
It would be better to say, "Google Chrome found this file dangerous to their share of the internet, and has removed it."
Wrong! You can actually choose Bing from the list of default search engines!
@@FelixAn which, just, why?
or Gmail, or Gdrive, or.........
A high school friend of mine works for Bing designing proprietary search widgets for companies. So when you go to a website and there’s a little search bar there’s a good chance that it is a Bing search
Google:
Don't be too evil.
8:03 😂
I use Bing. And the new Microsoft Edge based on Chromium (which allows you to install any Chrome extension from the Chrome store). They're great! It's not just for people too lazy to switch their default search engine.
The fact of the matter is, I use way more Microsoft services than I do Google services. I'm a Junior Software Engineer, and I use:
* MS Office for anything office-related (much better than G-Suite)
* OneDrive for cloud storage (much better than Google Drive)
* Outlook for my email (I like it better than Gmail, and I definitely like Outlook's calendar better than Google Calendar)
* Microsoft Azure and the .NET Core for development (not saying I exclusively use these - I use Google's and Amazon's developer technologies as well)
* Microsoft ToDo for managing my tasks
* Powershell as my default terminal - none of that Cygwin crap (you can also download Ubuntu from the Windows store and use it without requiring a virtual machine)
So I use way more Microsoft services than Google. Now, why would I use Google's browser and search engine when the new Edge and Bing are indistinguishable in quality?
And I think it's important to look at what kinds of companies Google and Microsoft are. Google is an **advertisement-focused company**. Microsoft is **an enterprise-focused company**. Which company sounds more appealing to me?
Microsoft is also the biggest contributor to open source. Don't listen to the people who try to tell you Microsoft is bad. All kinds of software companies use Microsoft's services, and if you have it in your head that Microsoft is bad, those companies will be less likely to hire you. But that's just my opinion.
TL;DR - Microsoft is pretty cool. Don't listen to the haters.
7:38 What are you talking about, Facebook _is_ the internet.
Now, we're talking!
"brilliant" transition 🐶
Pun Intended
The transition to the advert... best I've ever witnessed D:
"best"
Watched this a couple of years ago, still see no change
"people don't know how, or just don't care enough to change them"
*laughs in bored settings explorer*
When you want to search something NSFW forget Google, Bing doesn't judge your search results. Google safe search setting is off but yet so sanitized. The only time Google is better is when you need a refined search, something where the question needs a bit of AI to get the query.
Use DuckDuckGo :)
Dragon Skunk it's not really Ai, Google just has a lot more data to work with.
Faris Firdaws yup, I'd argue Bings blackbox is better/cleaner with the data it has
Doesn't judge?
Ha ha ha...
Nahh, I'm sure they're keeping you in the loop. They'd let you know for sure if your incognito searches for "stepsister blowjob" and "big black cock" were going anywhere except straight down the memory hole. Just clear your cookies and try not to think about it... It's not like they're a bunch of creepy guys who are into collecting personal data on strangers. I mean, these are computer programmers we're talking about here. They're too busy doing blow and getting laid to care about what you jack off to and how they can make money off of it so they can afford a copy of issue six of The Amazing Spiderman and the latest add-on for World of Warcraft. There's not even anybody AT the Microsoft office after 6 PM Pacific time. They're all at the beach by then. With their supermodel girlfriends... from Canada.
Get a specialty internet WiFi unit with monitoring tools for use only withe the device to be monitor and check when device is out of range