Apple rejected Bing for fallacious solutions about Annie Lennox

It has been revealed that Apple rejected Bing because the default search engine in its Safari browser after offering the fallacious reply to a query about Annie Lennox.

Incorrect search outcomes for the question “Annie Lennox first band” was among the many the explanation why Apple ended up going with Google as their default search engine. The claims had been revealed on Friday, February 23 in a filing from Google in its antitrust case in opposition to the US authorities (per The Register).

Lennox was referenced in testimony from John Giannandrea, Apple’s vice chairman of machine studying and AI technique.

Again in 2018, Giannandrea used Bing to analysis the singer’s profession after Apple was approached by Microsoft in hopes to be choses advert the default search engine over Google. After trying to find Lennonx’s first band, Bing solely supplied outcomes for The Eurythmics.

Although Lennonx is greatest recognized for her time in The Eurythmics, her first band was The Vacationer. In 1979 theu band lined Dusty Springfield’s ‘I Solely Need To Be With You’ which reached the Quantity 4 spot on the UK Singles chart.

Giannandrea was not impressed by the search engine. Different points he discovered with Bing was it’s lack of native language protection in markets Apple cared about and the dearth of progress updating and bettering the search engine which was beforehand mentioned between the tech giants throughout 2015 and 2016.

Apple’s vice chairman of machine studying and AI technique felt like Microsoft acknowledged Bing’s shortcomings, sharing that they “gave us an in depth presentation of what they weren’t doing, presumably to encourage us to say, ‘Hey if we invested on this collectively, we might do these items” (per

Within the submitting, Giannandrea’s testimony additionally states: “Microsoft was prepared to promote Bing, which you wouldn’t do if it was a strategic asset.”

The submitting is a part of Google’s protection within the antitrust case that alleges it flouted competitors legal guidelines to construct its dominance of the US search market.