Google may experience a small threatened as its competitive search engine, Microsoft’s Bing, has been updated, which enables it to become friendlier with internet users through a conversation.
Now your online search provider will become your friend soon with whom you can actually have a verbal communication. Microsoft has updated its search engine, Bing, in a way that it’s enabled to have a conversation with its users after understanding the context of all your questions.
A blog post by Microsoft said, “For all kinds of searches, Bing lets you ask a question the way you would ask a friend.” It means if you ask “Which is the tallest building in Mumbai” and then “How Tall is it?”, Bing will reply with the height of the building which is the tallest one. Principal development lead of the Bing Relevance team said, “By combining conversational understanding with our knowledge warehouse containing information on billions of people, places and things, you can dive and learn more about a topic or interest.”
It’s not a very revolutionary update though, but it’s perhaps the first of the same kind. Mobile voice assistants like iOS’ Siri, Google Now and Windows’ Cortana are equipped with this kind of conversational capabilities. All of them are powered by search providers but users are not allowed to directly type a search query without putting it with the context on the web or mobile browser. This latest update by Microsoft has changed that trend and has defeated search giant Google by doing the same.
