Whiskeyriff? Serialpressit? What even ARE these sites being promoted by Bing? The second page gets you something called Freshnewsnow that's literally just a copy/paste from CNN.pic.twitter.com/2nci9uChui
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Never heard of Thetcanada, but here's their article page. (Don't worry, news watchers, that Assange story is from April.)pic.twitter.com/9M0lRjLLRF
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Here's their homepage at the moment, a little before 11am on Dec. 31:pic.twitter.com/NTcjzq8002
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Here's the page for that heartwarming tale of the big tip in Ohio.pic.twitter.com/bSkCmxBPQn
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Anyway! No big thought here, really. Just that a not insignificant number of people use Bing, either by choice or because it's the default on whatever device they're using. And that I wish there was a little more distance between those people and some of these results.
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(Final point: Bing is hardly alone here! The internet is full of junk! Google has had its own problems --https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/17/technology/google-fake-ads-fact-check.html …. This was just a meandering trip down what Bing happened to serve up this morning.)
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OMG wait no, one more final point. I finally clicked on that other Eddie Murphy story, from uspotus dot com. It's a bad copy/paste from Entertainment Tonight, stripped of the byline but NOT THE NEWSLETTER SIGNUP.pic.twitter.com/Nyz6I6BXoP
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Today on Bing(TM), they are featuring a story about a Guinness Record that has been covered by <squints> 2 total news organizations: his local TV station, and UPI. (The Bre*tbart link is the UPI story.) So few sites that it's just showing the Amazon page for 'baseball cards'pic.twitter.com/zWLiqAZX8X
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