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Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist (www.techspot.com)
submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml 124 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You fools! If you die in Australia, you die in real life!

[–] PixeIOrange@feddit.de 30 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You cant die in australia because you cant be in australia. You would fall off the world. Duh.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 33 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Um, Australia is required to exist to stop the weight of the US from flipping the Earth plane over. It's literally the counterweight continent.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 67 points 10 months ago (5 children)

I’ll never forget the fall of Australia during the Emu Wars. The siege of Sydney was truly terrible.

[–] kambusha@feddit.ch 6 points 9 months ago

They were dropping bears. It was horrible.

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[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Thought that was New Zealand, since thats only on maps 50% of the time

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

New Zealand is technically part of Australia anyway (when you have something we want to claim).

[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Oof. I think if nz heard you they will haka your ass ;)

[–] stifle867@programming.dev 15 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Ah yes, the classic Australian tribal war dance

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[–] puttybrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Google isn't even sure so at least Bing is providing an answer, not that the wrong answer is great

[–] wrath_of_grunge@kbin.social 35 points 10 months ago

Bing gets you answers fast.

they didn't say they'd be the right answer tho.

[–] Zyratoxx@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)

At least Ecosia delivers

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[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Kagi also believes Australia is not real

Edit: this also shows up if i set the region to Australia

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mine shows a bit more context, did you crop it out or is it just a difference in settings?

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[–] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Kind of fucked up that we claim it does exist when you think about it

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 24 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fuck, who's turn was it to pay off bing this month?!

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

whose

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

This isn't time for semantics, we've gotta problem here!

[–] essteeyou@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Got a

[–] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Damnit Jerry, this is why no one invites you to BBQs!

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[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Australian users of Bluesky and Mastodon

Now that's what I like to see!

[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

...Guess I'm from Queensland, New York now.

[–] Fades@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Welcome to the states, friend! You picked one hell of a time to join

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 20 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Search engines don't make claims. They just deliver search results. People who fail to understand the difference have a really hard time interpreting the results.

[–] BreakDecks@lemmy.ml 29 points 9 months ago (4 children)

I wish search engines "just delivered search results". Unfortunately, they now directly and confidently answer questions with complete nonsense.

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[–] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

All LLM replies are hallucinations

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[–] hltdev@lemmy.world 18 points 10 months ago (8 children)

does anyone actually ever use Bing, when not either tricked/manipulated into using it or under some sort of bribe/incentive via ms rewards ?...

[–] Tanoh@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I got super tired of google a few months ago. "Ah, you searched for these terms. But I am going to ignore that and instead show you results for these diffetent ones, because fu."

So I started using bing instead, I wouldn't say it is worse. Just differently bad. Some search things are much worse, some are much better.

Quite annoying how they keep pushing for "AI" all the time though, so might go back to google soon anyway.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 13 points 10 months ago

Everybody who uses DDG is mostly using Bing. Albeit more privately.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 10 points 10 months ago

I will admit that I used it for years for the rewards, and it worked well for me. Once I started using a VPN though, it decided I could only redeem my rewards in Canada (I live in the US). I could have probably fixed it, but it caused me to have one of those "what am I doing anyway" moments and switch to using a SearXNG instance instead.

[–] Thade780@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

Bing is so much better than anything else for image search in my experience. Anything else, lol.

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[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 18 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You didn't really think there was an overgrown island with rabbits that stand upright and every animal, including dogs, hellbent on killing you?

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

These things HAPPEN☠️

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[–] Pratai@lemmy.ca 6 points 10 months ago

Guildenstern and Rosenkrantz are Dead FTW!

[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Australia really is the Wyoming of continents.

[–] Lophostemon@aussie.zone 10 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It doesn’t exist. Source: I’m here.

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This feels just like that situation when gøøgl€ was saying there are no countries beginning with "K" before listening Kenya, except on a continental scale.

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[–] Candelestine@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

#AustraliaIsntReal

Wake up sheeple, time to get with the program. It's finally all coming out...

[–] Gazumi@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Flat Earth and other loonies will be all over this as an "accidental leak"

[–] miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml 7 points 10 months ago

Accoring to my sources, only New Zealand and France are real

[–] Aatube@kbin.social 5 points 10 months ago

It would've been better if they just kept it... I mean, the theory has everybody already

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