You may have no choice, leeneia, or rather only a choice of evils: the tech press resounds with the protests about both Google and Microsoft pushing Artificial Incompetence into their respective search engines. Personally, I use DuckDuckGo for searching: this strips out identifying information before passing the query to Bing. I really, really hope they work out how to also bypass the (*akkh* *phht*) AI element, as I don't like being lied to by a machine.

Oh, and what's special about it, DtG, is that management saw *shiny* and threw a great deal of money at it before they worked out whether it would be any use, let alone what for, so they're all thrashing around trying to find how to get some of it back out. The more people pay for something, the more they think it's worth.

Disengage rant mode. The entire AI nonsense really gets on my thungas: it's a glorified pattern-matching exercise, which (rumour hath it) was given the name by someone just to get US DoD funding.