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Tested: Microsoft just debloated Windows 11 Search without Bing, and it's crazy fast (www.windowslatest.com)

submitted 1 week ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] TheFrirish@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Pro corporate vote manipulation happening right here in this thread. This is not normal. Regardless of MicroSlop's good or bad decision if you shared an anti MicroSlop comment it would be upvoted regardless in tje past now quite massive downvotes. And my guess triggered specifically by the word "MicroSlop".

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Microslop

For science!

Edit: Seems to have calmed down and usual vote averages have prevailed. Have to try again another time.

[–] Snowwdropp@lemmy.zip 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

What? How is this new? I've had web results disabled via the settings for a while now

[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 days ago

They need a simple toggle for it, honestly.

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 12 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is Windows open-source yet? Then who cares?

[–] yakko@feddit.uk 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

God, could you imagine the unhinged Windows forks you'd get

[–] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 days ago

I can't wait!

[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I don't know any company named Microsoft. Do you mean Microslop?

[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Linux does this too. GNOME and KDE both do web searches from the search menu by default (to be more precise they search the app store, which is on the web)

[–] dafta@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Yeah, but at least in KDE, when I search for something that it can't find on the PC, it gives you the option to "search blah with duckduckgo in firefox" instead of starting a web search immediately, waiting for it to finish, and showing the results in your start menu in front of whatever you actually wanted to find on your PC. It's the fallback and not the default.

[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

What I'm saying is that if you type "cat videos" in the search bar, it will immediately search the KDE Discover app store for relevant results, by default. It's not searching the entire web but it's still sending a request to the internet, one that can be tracked and shared (for example if you have Flathub enabled in KDE Discover, and Flathub happens to use Google analytics on their servers, then Google would know about everything you type in the search bar)

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 5 points 5 days ago

Are we sure they did it on purpose? At this point I can totally see Microsoft improving Windows being totally accidental.

Sorry we intended to put in more ads.

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