Microsoft's search engine, with Copilot answers and AI summaries built in
Bing is Microsoft's general web search engine, and the version most people meet today is search plus an assistant. Queries still return the familiar ranked links, but the page also offers an AI-generated summary with citations, an image generator, and a chat panel that keeps the context of your question for follow-ups. Because it runs on Microsoft's own index, coverage of news, local listings and shopping is broad, which is the practical difference from smaller AI-first engines. It is free to use and reachable from Windows, the Edge browser and mobile apps, so the AI features arrive inside a product most users already have.
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everyday web search, news and local queries, and quick ai summaries
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It is a conventional search engine with AI layered on top. The index and its rankings do the retrieval, and the assistant summarises and answers on top of those results rather than replacing the ranking system.
Basic search and the summary features work without signing in. An account is needed for chat history, saved preferences and higher limits on the image generation features.
They are generated from indexed pages and normally link to them, so treat those links as the source of truth. For anything consequential, open the cited pages rather than relying on the summary alone.
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