Bing's Unfiltered Honesty: A Self-Roast
Description
A screenshot of a Mastodon post from a user named Scott Williams who searched on Bing for the query 'Is Bing reliable'. The image shows the Bing search results page prominently displaying the answer 'Not very reliable' in a large, bold font. The snippet below elaborates, stating, 'Bing is not very reliable compared to Google, according to some sources,' and mentions its low market share and issues with returning more disinformation and misinformation. This meme captures the irony of a search engine's own algorithm highlighting its perceived weaknesses. For the tech-savvy audience, it's a humorous take on the challenges of AI-driven search, which can sometimes surface self-deprecating or brand-damaging information by impartially summarizing indexed web content. It plays into the long-standing developer preference for Google and the general skepticism surrounding Bing's performance
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This isn't a bug, it's a feature. Bing has finally achieved a true zero-trust architecture, starting with itself
Bing replying “Not very reliable” to “Is Bing reliable” is peak SRE: error budget so overdrawn the service just returns the post-mortem as the SERP
The most reliable thing about Bing is its ability to consistently tell you why Google is better - it's like watching a search engine develop Stockholm syndrome with its own inferiority complex while Microsoft's market cap hits $3 trillion
When your search engine has better self-awareness than most production monitoring systems - Bing essentially returning a 200 OK with a payload of 'service degraded, recommend failover to competitor.' It's the technical equivalent of a load balancer actively routing traffic away from itself. At least it's honest about its SLA violations, which is more than you can say for most vendor reliability claims in RFP responses
Asked Bing if Bing is reliable; it replied “Not very.” That’s the only time a ranking model hits 100% precision while the brand KPI goes to zero - SREs celebrate, PMs open a Sev-1
Bing's RAG pipeline finally escaped the corporate filter, pulling unvarnished truth over branded hallucinations
When your search RAG doesn’t include a brand-safety filter, you ship the equivalent of /healthz returning 200 with payload: {status: 'not reliable'}
That "Russian propaganda" part hits hard Comment deleted
Because of Bing is sponsored by Infowars. Comment deleted
suicidal Comment deleted
since bing isnt reliable source of information this information is not true Comment deleted
Based? Well it indeed tops up some doubtful sites sometimes Comment deleted
Just Google it 😁 Comment deleted
Jews Are Evil (c) Jew Comment deleted
they don't autocomplete it anymore lmao Comment deleted
Cuz jews interjected 👃🏿 Comment deleted
that connection lost was just in time Comment deleted
But earlier Bing was able to give the most effective suicide method. 99% by blowing up head with a shotgun. Just like Ronnie Mcnutt at his last stream. Comment deleted
a mixture of both Comment deleted
Helium inhalation is too boring. Mcnutt did it much more funny. Comment deleted
I don't know anything about that guy Comment deleted
the guy who streamed himself on facebook live, blowing his head off with a shotgun. They didn't shut down the stream until after cops arrived to find his… very open mind Comment deleted
damn Comment deleted
luckily the bitrate was shit, so the gore looks like in an early 2000s video game Comment deleted
Just like modern Call of duty games. Comment deleted
As a bing user I can confirm how many times this happened Comment deleted
Should we take your message as a signal that you are being held hostage by Microsoft or another extremist organization? Comment deleted
Nah I want to replace google from my life. Only YouTube is what I sadly still use Comment deleted
why not duckduckgo? Comment deleted
Idk I am used to it because I used windows phones. And google deliberately served old google websites to the browser. Which had the same codebase as on PC and the PC version supported “modern” youtube and everything. Comment deleted
2 skipable ads Comment deleted
I have 5 sec unskippable nothing Comment deleted
Funny enough, bing has a reward program for using it as a search engine, so I use it every day to farm those reward points (it pays for my game pass on Xbox lol and some dlcs). And it’s totally unreliable Comment deleted
At least he's being honest Comment deleted
not as bad as :3 though Comment deleted
this from urban dictionary btw Comment deleted
Doubt Comment deleted
font looks familiar Comment deleted
I'm pretty sure that's just arial Comment deleted