M*crosoft's search engine is borderline unusable - eviltoast

It’s impressive how duckduckgo manages to be so much better than bing despite being a frontend for bing

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    3 months ago

    Do you have uBlock or some similar ad blocker installed?

    EDIT: I went and looked myself. I do have an ad-blocker installed. I don’t see the ad. But I do see more noise than OP (desktop, Firefox):

    • There’s a set of steps at the top left telling me to download and install the software, which is what OP was complaining about.

    • At the top right, there’s a large, blue button with a link that guesses incorrectly that I want to know about Logitech Unifying Receiver Pairing, and just sends me to another Bing search.

    • Beneath that, there are a list of several questions that Microsoft incorrectly thinks I might be wanting to task and their answers.

    • Then there are two “Explore more” links linking me to pages describing how to pair with the software. One appears to link to “logi.com” with apparently is a Logitech business support page that links to the software, albeit only the Mac version, which I’d guess isn’t what OP wanted.

    • Back on the left, I have what appears to be an AI spam question-answer site at thewindowsclub.com and another page on “how to unify” at robots.net.

    • Beneath that, I have a link to the Logitech download section. So it’s in my top results and on my laptop, visible on the first screen of results, though beneath some not-really-desirable stuff.