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When you visit the Google's chatbot bard's website in Microsoft Bing. A New Button pops up besides the search bar which lets you compare bard results with Bing chat's. I have no idea why they implemented this, well maybe to show off the their chatbot is better than bard or something?

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[–] why@lemmy.sdf.org 55 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Is it me, or is that pretty anti consumer?

[–] nxfsi@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No more anti-consumer than Google saying that "the internet is best experienced in chrome" every time you open YouTube or Google search.

[–] out@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[–] mishimaenjoyer@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

at that point i consider it a microsoft tradition to do the "hey, i see you're using Y, we have a similar product called Z and it's better, do you want to try it?"-routine no one asked for.

[–] kite@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

"No one asked for this" should be Microsoft's tag line. Rather than fix problems that have been around for years - decades in some cases - they just keep adding crap that no one wants or asked for.

Everything from Microsoft or Google is anti everyone.

[–] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 year ago

It's also shameless and pathetic.

[–] synceDD@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Being offered a second option and not having a monopoly is as consumer friendly as it gets, may I suggest a dictionary?

[–] why@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago

Except they are using the power they have with people using their browser to divert people away from the alternative to their product.