Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year 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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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

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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Kagi also believes Australia is not real

Edit: this also shows up if i set the region to Australia
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  Mine shows a bit more context, did you crop it out or is it just a difference in settings?
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    I cropped it out

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