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Lee Duna to [email protected]English • 2 years ago

Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist

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Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist

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Lee Duna to [email protected]English • 2 years ago
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Australian users of Bluesky and Mastodon were surprised yesterday to find Bing was informing them that the country they were in didn't actually exist.
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    5•2 years ago

    Whats the one that “ackshually” doesn’t exist? Its like some running gag or something

    • peto (he/him)
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      17•2 years ago

      Finland.

      Or New Zealand if you are a cartographer.

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        6•2 years ago

        NZ

        Yessss

    • @[email protected]
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      7•2 years ago

      My brains thinking Finland but I might be wrong.

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        1•2 years ago

        Can’t have a NATO lake without Finland so of course it exists

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          1•2 years ago

          That’s just what japan wants you to think

          https://en.everybodywiki.com/Finland_does_not_exist

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      3•2 years ago

      America, it was just a practical joke.

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        2•2 years ago

        Ees joke?!

    • Aatube
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      You

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      2•2 years ago

      There’s also the city of Bielefeld, which may or may not exist. I mean, I’ve never seen it.

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