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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist

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Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to

Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

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Australian users of Bluesky and Mastodon were surprised yesterday to find Bing was informing them that the country they were in didn't actually exist.

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Google isn’t even sure so at least Bing is providing an answer, not that the wrong answer is great
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  Kagi also believes Australia is not real
  
  Edit: this also shows up if i set the region to Australia

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