• ThyTTY@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    If they want to push Bing so hard I wonder why didn’t they just show you the local results first and then asynchronously load Bing suggestions in a separate section. It would make good UX while still promoting their search engine.

    Good that it can be disabled though

    • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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      9 hours ago

      show you the local results first and then asynchronously load Bing suggestions in a separate section

      Actually, that’s fn brilliant.

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        4 hours ago

        It’s not brilliant, it’s something a software engineer should have mentioned in the first 5 minutes of the initial design meeting. It very likely was.

        So what you need to understand is that mashing Bing and local results together was a deliberate design decision. Whether to artificially inflate Bing search numbers , or to get that sweet cash from sponsored results, who knows?

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        5 hours ago

        How do you expect them to maximise their profits if people find what they are looking for immediately?