What you need to know
- Microsoft announced that Bing has reached 100 million daily active users.
- The announcement comes just a month after the company integrated OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology.
- About a third of people previewing the new Bing are new to search engines.
Microsoft is celebrating a milestone for Bing, a search engine that always seems to be forever in Google’s shadow. This week, Yusuf Mehdi, his vice president and chief consumer marketing officer at Microsoft Corporate, announced that the search engine has reached an important milestone in everyday use.
“After years of steady progress, we are pleased to announce that Bing has now surpassed 100 million daily active users, with a small boost from over 1 million new Bing Preview users. ,” Mehdi said in a blog post.
The announcement comes just one month after the launch of a new Bing preview that integrates OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology into the service. The preview is available for desktop, iOS and Android phones via a mobile app that allows users to submit a series of queries in chat format.
Previews of the new Bing and Edge are now available to the public, making them hard to ignore, especially for those already loyal to Edge. The browser gets an upgrade with new Bing AI features in the Edge sidebar, giving you quick access to chat services and new compose tools.
According to Mehdi, of the more than one million users who have signed up for the new Bing preview, one-third are new to the search engine, which means Microsoft has never considered using Bing. It means that we have finally reached people without Our own research has revealed that many people are interested in switching to Bing. This already bodes well for the company. But despite the recent surge in users, Mehdi recognizes that Microsoft is still well behind his 1 billion active users per day in Google searches.
“This is a surprisingly remarkable number, but we are fully aware that we are still a small, low, single-digit share player. Is good!”
Of course, the new Bing preview isn’t perfect and demonstrates that users can seemingly “break” AI chatbots. However, the company has since put limits on chat and started raising them again. Microsoft has incorporated a personality his toggle to improve responsiveness.
Of course, it’s only been a month and the new Bing AI chatbot is still in preview so far. That said, there may be some quirks as Microsoft gets feedback from a lot of new users. However, Mehdi said the team is “energized” to keep improving the experience.
