The Bing chatbot searches the web for you, it doesn't just spit out answers like ChatGPT. There's no clear distinction between the Chatbot and a search engine.

I just asked it about something in today's news and it answered it and provided links to 6 news articles on that topic.

It's unfortunate that it requires logging in to Edge with your Microsoft account because I'm just not going to do that. I don't sign in to browsers.