Bing search engine in the test – of poems and invented sources

Seattle The technology group Microsoft has fundamentally revised its Internet search Bing. CEO Satya Nadella sees it as the beginning of a new age of the internet. The Handelsblatt was given access to the new system in advance and was able to test the functions.

So far, searching the Internet has primarily been based on providing users with a list of links to Internet sites that are as relevant as possible after they have entered the appropriate search terms. The new Bing takes a different approach. The search on the Internet is largely done via a dialogue with a system trained using artificial intelligence.

Mixing up correct and incorrect information

In practice, this offers many advantages. In the test, the system was asked to say who the editor-in-chief of the Handelsblatt is. Bing immediately produced the correct answer: Sebastian Matthes. But the system went further and summarized the life of Sebastian Matthes in a few sentences. This includes, among other things, that he is the moderator of the technology podcast Handelsblatt Disrupt.