Cap on daily interactions also lifted slightly – to 60 questions per day
Microsoft is integrating its Bing chatbot into iOS and Android apps, allowing users to access AI-powered search features on mobile devices.
The search chatbot was launched two weeks ago, to considerable fanfare as well as criticism. Millions of users who had signed up to a waitlist were given free rein to test its web interface. Now, they will be able to use it on Microsoft’s Bing, Edge, and Skype apps on Androids and iPhones. Bing can even be added to a group chat on Skype to help answer queries if that’s something you want, and it can use machine translation to support over 100 languages.
„Because we know 64 [per cent] of searches occur on mobile phones, we are releasing all new Bing and Edge mobile apps to serve as your copilot for the web even when you are away from your desktop,“ Microsoft announced on Tuesday.
Bing is designed to be a more flexible conversational interface for web search. Users can ask the chatbot questions in a conversational way that might not be effective for normal search engines, and Bing will generate a chatty response.
