Sunday, August 4, 2024

Bing’s AI redesign shoves the usual list of search results to the side - Emma Roth, the Verge

Bing’s new search experience puts AI-generated answers front and center while pushing traditional search results to the side. The new layout, which is rolling out for a small number of queries, fills your search results page with AI-generated summaries addressing various aspects of your question. Microsoft has shared an early look at what this search experience will look like... and it’s a lot. For the query “What is a spaghetti western?” Bing displays a summary explaining that it’s a “subgenre of western films produced by Italian filmmakers,” along with a series of bullet points of the genre’s key characteristics.