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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Chris Stokel-Walker

TechScape: Google and Microsoft are in an AI arms race – who wins could change how we use the internet

Bard v Bing … whose AI innovation will win out?
Bard v Bing … whose AI innovation will win out? Photograph: Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock

Search engines have been a major part of our online experience since the early 1990s, when the booming growth of the world wide web created a need to sort and present information in response to user queries.

The first users to traverse the “information superhighway” had a simple job of it. It was akin to pootling along to your local supermarket: you knew the roads, where to turn off, and how to get there.

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