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Microsoft's Bing search engine claims Australia doesn't exist(www.techspot.com)

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AcidOctopus@lemmy.ml
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You fools! If you die in Australia, you die in real life!

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PixeIOrange@feddit.de
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You cant die in australia because you cant be in australia. You would fall off the world. Duh.

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tetris11@lemmy.ml
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Um, Australia is required to exist to stop the weight of the US from flipping the Earth plane over. It’s literally the counterweight continent.

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PixeIOrange@feddit.de
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But its glued to the bottom. So you would just fall off.

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letsgo@lemm.ee
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Thanks Ptetris11!

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theneverfox@pawb.social
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Only if your gravity harness breaks…

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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I’ll never forget the fall of Australia during the Emu Wars. The siege of Sydney was truly terrible.

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kambusha@feddit.ch
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They were dropping bears. It was horrible.

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IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world
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Emus? I think you mean cassowaries…

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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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The cassowaries were being controlled by the platypus, who were in turn controlled by huntsman spiders. Drop bears fit in there somewhere…

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MCHEVA@lemmy.world
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Emu war was on the other side of the country.

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middleman35@lemmy.nz
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The First Emu War was. Emu War II was much more devastating.

Source: Bing

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SteefLem@lemmy.world
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Thought that was New Zealand, since thats only on maps 50% of the time

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stifle867@programming.dev
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New Zealand is technically part of Australia anyway (when you have something we want to claim).

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SteefLem@lemmy.world
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Oof. I think if nz heard you they will haka your ass ;)

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stifle867@programming.dev
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Ah yes, the classic Australian tribal war dance

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dellish@lemmy.world
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They’re well aware. Famous Australians like Russell Crowe and Phar Lap would back up this claim.

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cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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I was “thinking” of NZ ;) Not sure about Finland but also, yes \s

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PiGgY :-$@fanaticus.social
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Who cares about kangaroo land?

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puttybrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Google isn’t even sure so at least Bing is providing an answer, not that the wrong answer is great

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wrath_of_grunge@kbin.social
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Bing gets you answers fast.

they didn’t say they’d be the right answer tho.

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Zyratoxx@lemmy.world
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At least Ecosia delivers

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PiGgY :-$@fanaticus.social
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Imagine using ecosia in 2023. You’re being scammed my friend haha

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Zyratoxx@lemmy.world
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What kinda scam do you mean. I’m using it since 2017 or so and never heard of it.

(Please don’t recommend me DuckDuckGo - I’d rather use Startpage or Qwant for personal reasons)

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RandomVideos@programming.dev
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Kagi also believes Australia is not real

Edit: this also shows up if i set the region to Australia

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Deebster@programming.dev
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Mine shows a bit more context, did you crop it out or is it just a difference in settings?

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RandomVideos@programming.dev
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I cropped it out

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Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
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Kind of fucked up that we claim it does exist when you think about it

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