Microsoft reportedly pitched Apple on buying Bing to no avail::Apple and Microsoft met in 2020 about the possibility of a Bing acquisition, according to a new report. But the talks never went anywhere beyond the exploratory stage.

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    1 year ago

    They keep trying to give me Bing and Edge for free and I don’t want either. I can see where Apple is coming from.

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    1 year ago

    If Apple supported a different search engine then Google might finally improve theirs.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve put up with google for so long, but their mobile site is practically unusable for me now

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    1 year ago

    I want to buy it. I have a budget of $5, but hopefully I don’t have to spend it all.

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    1 year ago

    When Microsoft offered chat GPT for for people that were using edge I once more gave Bing a fair shake.

    Anytime I went to search for anything in Bing nothing ever came up high on the list. Like if I wasn’t searching for a specific product name where the product name was in the URL I had to constantly scroll down at least half a page sometimes multiple pages just to find what I was looking for.

    Results were literally worse than any other major search engine on a regular basis.