{"id":12367,"date":"2023-11-23T17:37:54","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/does-australia-exist-well-that-depends-on-which-search-engine-you-ask\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T17:37:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:37:54","slug":"does-australia-exist-well-that-depends-on-which-search-engine-you-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/does-australia-exist-well-that-depends-on-which-search-engine-you-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Australia exist? Well, that depends on which search engine you ask \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s Bing falls victim to long-running part-joke internet conspiracy theory<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/live\/2023\/nov\/23\/australia-news-live-rba-governor-interest-rates-bruce-lehrmann-defamation-trial-bushfire-perth-cost-of-living\">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Australia doesn\u2019t exist. That\u2019s at least according to Bing search results for some users on Wednesday when the Microsoft search engine cited long-running internet conspiracy theories denying the existence of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Several very real Australian users on Bluesky and Mastodon reported that when they searched for \u201cdoes Australia exist\u201d on Bing, it would come back with an emphatic \u201cNo\u201d written in a text box before the link results.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/nov\/23\/does-australia-exist-bing-search-no-bluesky-mastodon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cb2b1f2257863b875797c6f20df8d9a87910d7ec\/633_5064_4893_2936\/master\/4893.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=296e491557c4e8fabcdacd7f3dc46873\" title=\"Does Australia exist? Well, that depends on which search engine you ask \u2026\" \/>Microsoft\u2019s Bing falls victim to long-running part-joke internet conspiracy theory<br \/>\nFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updates<br \/>\nAustralia doesn\u2019t exist. That\u2019s at least according to Bing search results for some users on Wednesday when the Microsoft search engine cited long-running internet conspiracy theories denying the existence of the country.<br \/>\nSeveral very real Australian users on Bluesky and Mastodon reported that when they searched for \u201cdoes Australia exist\u201d on Bing, it would come back with an emphatic \u201cNo\u201d written in a text box before the link results. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft\u2019s Bing falls victim to long-running part-joke internet conspiracy theory Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Australia doesn\u2019t exist. That\u2019s at least according to Bing search results for some users on Wednesday when the Microsoft search engine cited long-running internet conspiracy theories denying the existence of the country. Several very real Australian &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/23\/does-australia-exist-well-that-depends-on-which-search-engine-you-ask\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does Australia exist? Well, that depends on which search engine you ask \u2026<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":12368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}