funkystudent
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I wonder when they will push their luck and try a ad in the start menu.
Microsoft to add Bing adverts to Windows 8.1 Search results
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evil solrac v3.0
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don't use Bing then. problem solved.
No one will listen to you. I appreciate it though.
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
Fucking FUD thread. Ads are only when you go to web search which is the same experience as any other search engine.
This need to be quoted again.
This need to be quoted again.
The ads will only appear in the full screen experience, not the side bar.
not sure what the big deal is. The fullscreen stuff will be basically like you doing it on the web, which has ads.
Windu. FFS, I hope this isn't how you're watching games.
Right now i am on my tablet. Nationals are on the tv...
Yup. It's a suggested update that renews itself for every version update. You would think that if I hid the first Bing update, they would know I wouldn't want any future updates.
I don't have the Bing app installed either
How would that even work? The entire point of the start screen is the ability to customize it exactly how you want. And apps are even forbidden to show ads of any sort in their live tiles:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh694083.aspx
Why not just use the built-in options to hide the auto-correct search results, thereby essentially hiding the feature entirely?
Black Door
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I have to use bing since Google won't let you search for porn any more
it's shitty.
I can't even simply download a repair cd, have to use a specific version of Windows to download Windows 8. new computer, Windows 8 can't boot anymore because it lost a file.
in 30 years of computing, I've never had such a difficult time just using Windows as I've always used it.
wasn't even admin, after selecting admin. it's horrible, and useless. xp just needed some bells and whistles. but nothing in win 8 made me pleased as a consumer. I had to just " deal" with it.
Vista was ok, as is 7. 8 is irritating.
This video is relevant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj3FOHc-fgA
Never change, Microsoft, never change. (And it won't as long as Ballmer is in charge. Can't wait for him to drive the xbone further into the dust).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj3FOHc-fgA
Never change, Microsoft, never change. (And it won't as long as Ballmer is in charge. Can't wait for him to drive the xbone further into the dust).
I really like 8. It's an improvement over previous Windows.
I don't like this news at all. It's extremely poor form for an OS to do. Hopefully a community hack will come out very quickly to remove this element.
Certainly won't be purchasing 9 if it too contains ads.
Edit - misreporting and misphrasing? (Or me misreading) Only for web results? Well, carry on, then.
I don't like this news at all. It's extremely poor form for an OS to do. Hopefully a community hack will come out very quickly to remove this element.
Certainly won't be purchasing 9 if it too contains ads.
Edit - misreporting and misphrasing? (Or me misreading) Only for web results? Well, carry on, then.
archnemesis
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Windows 8 is an excellent OS as long as you ignore all these new features. With the 8.1 patch I will be able to boot straight to desktop and then I can continue to pretend that Internet Explorer, Bing, Windows Store, and Skydrive don't exist. Forcing inferior services down out throats isn't going to work.
Opus Angelorum
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It's ms in general that does that, hell we still have people posting here who use the $ in the name
I don't know if your question is rhetoric or not, but since I wanted to know too I just tried, and guess what ? there are no ads in the search result from the google search app on android.
Tertullian
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Because that completely destroys the entire point of this new Smart Search thing. You either get bombarded with giant-ass web search ads whenever you go to search for something local on your computer, or you turn off web searching, disabling the integrated search functionality that's supposed to sell me on Windows 8.1.
I was actually thinking of buying a Windows 8 computer after 8.1 comes out. But I underestimated how absolutely terrified Microsoft is that someone, somewhere, might actually want their product.
PetriP-TNT
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OP put this on the OP so people can stop the "WINDOWS 8 SUX OMGGG" posts
But you don't. At all.
Tertullian
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I'm not totally sure where one or two people on this thread are getting their information, but this image:
Is clearly presented as typical of 8.1 Smart Search results (not specifically "web searches") in several articles on this subject.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2043518/windows-8-1-smart-search-will-show-you-bing-ads.html
You forgot to add "Right, guys?" At the end to let everyone know you are joking. Right?The ads will only appear in the full screen experience, not the side bar.
not sure what the big deal is. The fullscreen stuff will be basically like you doing it on the web, which has ads.
RIGHT?
No, you either get a brand new feature that searches the web, and returns ads like every web search on earth does, or you turn off the web search part and you get universal search across everything local on your PC with no ads just like Windows 7.
Ken Masters
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Wait, people in this thread are justifying MS putting ads in an OS the consumer paid for?
Wow
Wow
bigbaldwolf86
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MS are becoming obsessed with cramming ads in as many places they can get away with. Soon I'll have to watch a Doritos advert just to use the Start button
Xbox 360 is the last MS product I buy/use. I'm done with this shitty company.
Schrade
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They work for Microsoft. (It's no secret btw, they mention it on GAF every once in a while)
More like clearing up the confusion people have for some reason. The title "Microsoft to add Bing adverts to Windows 8.1 Search results" just isn't accurate. If you do a normal search in the OS you're not going to get any ads. You'll be presented with a list of your programs, documents and other files, just like on Windows 7.
You can take the option of opening what is essentially a Bing app to do a web search on your search query, where, just like in a browser, you might get an ad. It's not like they're shoving ads directly into the search pane. If they did, I don't think we would see anyone justifying it.
How could you have read through the entire thread and not understand this? Or didn't you read it?
Holy shit, did you read the OP? You get web ads when you do web searches. Incidentally, you shouldn't be seeing anything if Bing isn't installed either.
Frustrated_me
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So web ads when doing a web search?
Why the outrage? I thought google made this okay since the early 2000's?
Why the outrage? I thought google made this okay since the early 2000's?
Because of poor journalism such as this:
People then read that and their opinion is already formed.
The ads will only appear in the full screen experience, not the side bar.
not sure what the big deal is. The fullscreen stuff will be basically like you doing it on the web, which has ads.
Good grief, that image looks awful.
Also this is just one more reason not to use that free copy of Windows 8.
And what reason would that be?
Guy LeDouche
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lmao what a garbage OS
Ads like the topic says. Unless you're asking about the other reasons?
I know the easy option is to take the title at face value and then immediately post, but this post was only a few posts above yours.
Crimsonclaw111
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Fuck off Bing. Makes me wonder why Google Images destroyed its own usefulness by not allowing me to search for certain picture sizes easily.
This is just snide.
For what it's worth, I don't care that its an option or easily avoided by changing avoiding a function of the OS to get around Microsoft peddling ads. I don't like ads being peddled to me on my OS. As I said it's just another reason for me, amongst many, not to use Windows 8. In my eyes there are far too many things like this I have to turn a blind eye to or workaround. Ubuntu does a similar thing with Amazon and its Lens search and I'm not using Ubuntu any more either. Coincidence? No, it's one of a few reasons I stopped using it.
PlayALLtheGames
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I don't use Windows 8. Nobody does.
Well I'm sorry if you felt it was, but I was just telling it like it is. This isn't exactly a 100 page thread where you could easily miss a little detail. The situation was already explained on the first page and the first half of this one, so I'd have expected people to realise. Maybe I just went about it the wrong way.
As for your main point, I just can't understand how you can let an optional feature prevent you from using an entire operating system. You obviously have other reasons, and I'm sure most of them are valid, but this one? I just can't understand it.
Besides it's not like you have to work around it or try to ignore it. The first time you boot into Windows a simple flick of a switch and it's disabled.
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