{"id":1233,"date":"2023-09-27T13:55:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T18:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2023-09-27T13:55:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T18:55:12","slug":"why-i-use-bing-not-google-nor-siri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2023\/why-i-use-bing-not-google-nor-siri\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I use Bing, not Google, nor Siri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve said before that Siri understands me better than Google Assistant. Google Assistant will often say it doesn&#8217;t understand the name of devices in my house, or will add &#8220;pingle&#8221; to the shopping list, whatever that is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I got my iPhone 15 with an <a href=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2023\/how-to-use-bing-voice-search-on-iphone-15-action-button\/\" title=\"How to use Bing voice search on iPhone 15 Action Button\">action button, I made Bing listen for a question<\/a> when I pressed it. This works well for me because, like Siri, Bing understands me better than Google Assistant. But, more important than that, it can actually answer my questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The following audio is Siri, then Google Assistant, then Bing. See which one gives you the answer you want. I asked the same thing to all three, &#8220;How many words are there in Babel by RF Kuang?&#8221; I repeated this test multiple times, to make sure I wasn&#8217;t saying it more clearly to one service or another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/WordCountRFKuang.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, my question has to be, why is Bing not gaining market share in web search? The results are quite clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"shortbooksLink\">I write short stories and o\u00feer fiction &#8211; check \u00feem out at <a href=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\" title=\"\">shortbooks.online<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Like many creative people on \u00fee internet, I have a Patreon account. If you would like to support my creative writing (on <a href=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/shortbooks.online<\/a>) or my blogging efforts, please take a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/gavinayling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">my Patreon page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/bePatron?u=58356065\" data-patreon-widget-type=\"become-patron-button\">Become a Patron!<\/a><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/c6.patreon.com\/becomePatronButton.bundle.js\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said before that Siri understands me better than Google Assistant. Google Assistant will often say it doesn&#8217;t understand the name of devices in my house, or will add &#8220;pingle&#8221; to the shopping list, whatever that is. When I got my iPhone 15 with an action button, I made Bing listen for a question when I pressed it. This works well for me because, like Siri, Bing understands me better than Google Assistant. But, more important than that, it can&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2023\/why-i-use-bing-not-google-nor-siri\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[391],"tags":[400,392,433,379,435,436,437,438,394],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bing","tag-google-assistant","tag-google-home","tag-iphone","tag-iphone-15","tag-iphone-15-pro-max","tag-search","tag-search-engine","tag-siri"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}