Bing vs. Google

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I’ve tried a bunch of search engines over the years. Altavista. Yahoo. Excite. Dogpile (a compilation of SE results). But I’ve always returned to Google.

Lately I’m starting to like bing.com more than google. Anybody else been using Bing? Any others worth trying?

 
I used Bing back when it first came out. My client upgraded their network and Bing got embedded as the default search engine. I found it to be way off, to the point of doing a search for a specific thing in a specific city, say where to ship via UPS in Lincoln Nebraska, and the response would be a news article about how a computer UPS shorted out and burned down a shipping office in Lincoln-shire UK. I am not joking it was bad, I have used it some but still find the results to be miles away. It takes me two or three attempts on Bing (and sometimes still cant find what I ma looking for) while one time on google is all I need. Maybe I am just used to the key words google uses to effect my results....

 
Canttakeitanymore said:
I used Bing back when it first came out. My client upgraded their network and Bing got embedded as the default search engine. I found it to be way off, to the point of doing a search for a specific thing in a specific city, say where to ship via UPS in Lincoln Nebraska, and the response would be a news article about how a computer UPS shorted out and burned down a shipping office in Lincoln-shire UK. I am not joking it was bad, I have used it some but still find the results to be miles away. It takes me two or three attempts on Bing (and sometimes still cant find what I ma looking for) while one time on google is all I need. Maybe I am just used to the key words google uses to effect my results....
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I like Bing's image search format better. You can tell, by the way I went overboard in the Jayhawk Look-Alike Thread. heh. I haven't noticed differences with web searches. But if Bing's web searching is as crappy as you say I'll probably end up back with the googly again.

 
I tend to search for more esoteric things, outside of Husker football, I've enjoyed piecing together a HI-Fi system. The stuff I was looking for isn't at your local Best Buy, so doing research was difficult. Few articles are written about these products with even fewer being published to the interwebs. I tell you that, to explain my Google thoughts. Google, in essence, is a huge popularity tracker, with millions (billions?) of users, the likely hood of someone else looking for a rare article is far better, making my life much easier, as the other searchers will help push related content to the top. I dont know how the Bing engine works, but in my case it is not even close. If it follows the Google model, then it would reason to be less accurate on lesser known topics, due to less users, as Bing make more inroads (and I guess it has really made a dent) I would assume the searches would get more accurate.

To be honest, I remember having similar issue with goolge when I first started using that 10 or so years ago.

Edit- Just to make a point, I typed in "review of elctrocompient nemo amps" into Bing and got no results. I did the same into Google, and got the correct spelling, and links to some reviews. Now to be fair if I go back to bing with the correct spelling it will give me, more or less, the same results. I just find it frustrating that sometimes I don't know the spelling of something to get zero results, and no alternates.

 
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firefox with built in spellcheck and google for this guy. bing is awkward. chrome is, well, chrome. try firefox basic, same layout ease as chrome but imho easier and overall better. there is a little checkbox next to the search field (above safesearch) to turn off the instant for me.

 
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