Microsoft may start testing Bing’s Deep Search feature again in the wild after halting testing earlier this month. As a reminder, Deep Search is an enhancement to Bing Search that Microsoft originally said would provide “deeper, richer exploration of the web.”
Microsoft’s Mikhail Parakin said: X When asked last night when Deep Search would be back, he said, “It’s coming back (hopefully) on a big flight this week. It’s much better!”
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I’ll be back (hopefully) on a big flight this week. Much better!
— Mikhail Parakhin (@MParakhin) February 29, 2024
Microsoft canceled its Deep Search test flight a few weeks ago after the initial test release was so poor. I was able to test Bing Deep Search in the wild, and it didn’t go well, to say the least.
“It’s turned out to be more popular than we expected,” Microsoft’s Mikhail Parakin said earlier this month, adding that Microsoft initially “really intended it to be more of a research tool, but it’s becoming more popular among non-researchers.” It’s clear that a lot of people want to try it.” Paraquin said they need to “fix the cache” and make deep search “more robust.” He said, “I’ll be back soon.”
Well, it looks like things will be back to normal within a few days.
Deep Search uses Bing’s existing web and search indexes, as well as its search ranking system, but “enhances them with GPT-4,” the company said. With Deep Search, GPT-4 takes a search query and expands it into a “more comprehensive description of what the ideal result set should include,” they added. The goal of Deep Search is to “recover relevant results that don’t appear in regular search results.” It accomplishes this by using “query technology” to “find pages that might match the expanded query, rewrite the query on my behalf, and search for variations of those as well.” That’s what it means.
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