▲ 531 ▼ Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results (pivot-to-ai.com) submitted 2 years ago by homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 97 comments fedilink hide all child comments cross-posted from: https://awful.systems/post/2178630
[+] lvxferre@mander.xyz 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children) That's technically true, but it's as misleading as saying they get their search results from Yandex. Their results are aggregated from several search engines, not just Bing. They also have their own web crawler, DuckDuckBot, which absolutely respects RobotRules. Edit: I'm told my information is out of date. No more Yandex because of Uncle Sam. Yahoo is just Bing now, so that index doesn't count anymore. The bulk of the rest of their sources are largely inconsequential specialized search engines. Their sources page states that they "largely source from Bing". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [+] lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] ColinHayhurst@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Where is your evidence for that? It used to be Bing and Yandex, but now it's just Bing. They use other non search engine APIs and do a small amount of crawling AFAIK. Details of who uses what here: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago I read it on their sources page at some point, but it looks like that page has changed since last I looked. permalink fedilink source parent [–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago There's an article from this spring's 2600 magazine that claims it's all Bing results. I haven't dug through their Python code and I'm definitely no expert anyway, but I'd also prefer not to post an article from a small independent magazine like that to let the people on Lemmy who do know more than me take a look. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 36 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children) That's technically true, but it's as misleading as saying they get their search results from Yandex. Their results are aggregated from several search engines, not just Bing. They also have their own web crawler, DuckDuckBot, which absolutely respects RobotRules. Edit: I'm told my information is out of date. No more Yandex because of Uncle Sam. Yahoo is just Bing now, so that index doesn't count anymore. The bulk of the rest of their sources are largely inconsequential specialized search engines. Their sources page states that they "largely source from Bing". permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [+] lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent [–] ColinHayhurst@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Where is your evidence for that? It used to be Bing and Yandex, but now it's just Bing. They use other non search engine APIs and do a small amount of crawling AFAIK. Details of who uses what here: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago I read it on their sources page at some point, but it looks like that page has changed since last I looked. permalink fedilink source parent [–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago There's an article from this spring's 2600 magazine that claims it's all Bing results. I haven't dug through their Python code and I'm definitely no expert anyway, but I'd also prefer not to post an article from a small independent magazine like that to let the people on Lemmy who do know more than me take a look. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] lvxferre@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ColinHayhurst@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 child) Where is your evidence for that? It used to be Bing and Yandex, but now it's just Bing. They use other non search engine APIs and do a small amount of crawling AFAIK. Details of who uses what here: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/ permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago I read it on their sources page at some point, but it looks like that page has changed since last I looked. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] QBertReynolds@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago I read it on their sources page at some point, but it looks like that page has changed since last I looked. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 point 2 years ago There's an article from this spring's 2600 magazine that claims it's all Bing results. I haven't dug through their Python code and I'm definitely no expert anyway, but I'd also prefer not to post an article from a small independent magazine like that to let the people on Lemmy who do know more than me take a look. permalink fedilink source parent