It Looks Like Microsoft Finally Gave Up on Bing (Lowest Market Share in Years, Many Layoffs, Now Mass Deletion and Higher Fees)
Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer.
It looks like Bing has decided to delete all the **** and this has made it to DDG and Qwant. Truly a sad day for the 4% of the Web.
Here we see the very “independent” totally “has an index” and a “DuckDuck Bot” DuckDuckGo proving how “independent” it is by…….returning whatever Bing does, yet again. Very “independent”. Very independent. Much Wow. (And “DuckDuckBot”.)
Another thing I noticed after this was brought to my attention is that Microsoft Bing is now using Dark Patterns to get you to accidentally use the Bullshit Bot that returns malware.
They’ve put a “Chat” button right in front of where you click to get the next page of search results, then they made the next button smaller and moved it off to the left.
Are they getting desperate?
One can only speculate about why they decided to start nuking all the porn, while Google still returns reams and reams of the stuff.
There was chatter about trying to offload the Bing Lemon onto Apple.
And as we all know, Apple goes around, like a group of mobsters, site to site, app to app, threatening everyone to delete the porn or there will be….trouble.
A few years after ruining Tumblr, Apple went and roughed up Reddit. Now Reddit is complying (at least on New Reddit) by shoving a QR code in your face and telling you the porn is only available in their App, which spies on your entire phone (as most Apps that are on the Play Store do…I barely even open the stupid thing….use F-Droid) and displays advertising, so you can “anonymously” view the porn.
If Microsoft is looking to offload their Lada onto Apple, this would be a good place to start.
Google isn’t looking to get acquired by anyone.
Unlike Microsoft, with their pathetic 3% of the search market, laying off most of the “Bing developers” and relying on a Bullshit Bot full of propaganda and malvertising that is deflating as we speak, Google has a business that makes money.
In the post I wrote, previously, and linked to earlier, about the Social Credit Scores taking effect in America, and the censored search engines, it looks like the next thing you won’t be allowed to know about is legal pornography.
It was probably inevitable given the trajectory of the manually blacklisted results. If they could do this with with people’s Web forums and Bittorrent sites, who didn’t think they’d get around to this one next?
As much as it horrifies me to point this out, Americans may have to start asking Yandex (a Russian search engine) about things. Granted, it’s not ideal to rely on something Russian that’s got a lot of CAPTCHAs, but at least they don’t do requests from the American censors.
I would think that the American censors would be smart enough to at least realize that porn is one of the few escapes a lot of people have from our country rotting and falling down around us. Maybe they don’t care about distractions anymore and feel it’s safe to mess with the formula and rely completely on threatening to hurt people. █