journey_man 0 Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Bing seems quite good. Prettier too. Could it be that Microsoft have made something that works well from the beginning? Link to post Share on other sites
minus 1 Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 Is Bing the new Google? >>> No. Next! Link to post Share on other sites
HelperElfMissy 42 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 C'mon! GOOGLE has become a word in common usage, more than just a noun it has taken on other forms. Just google it. Google is your friend. I am all googled out... ...of course there are thousands more... It has not only become commonplace in the english language, but there are signs for it in sign language now - thats when you know it is in common usage! It would take something SPECTACULAR to uproot the firm hold google has on the current user market. JMHO Link to post Share on other sites
2pints-mate 0 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 I would find it hard to care less. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Bing looks crap. I should probably test it more deeply (seeing as I am/was a web specialist), but from the few test searches I did the logic behind its 'engine' seems to little more than this: "If the search phrase is in the domain name, rank that domain near the top." e.g. Search for "Taj Mahal" and tajmahal.com is in top 3. Search for "japan hotel" and japanhotel.net and japan-hotel.com are up the top. etc. Did you know that Google search engine is basically run by hundreds of thousands of low end PCs? Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Originally Posted By: 2pints,mate I would find it hard to care less. My thoughts exactly! Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Let's try Bing vs Google for a specific search phrase: "captain of liverpool fc in 1977" Results: google Bing (spoiler: Bing is crap) Link to post Share on other sites
journey_man 0 Posted June 9, 2009 Author Share Posted June 9, 2009 Interesting, I've been parallel searching most of my searches today and Bing has had the edge, although there isn't much in it. (It's called procrastination) I'd love Bing to at least appear to be the real deal, I want to see what Google will do to defend it's position! Link to post Share on other sites
Jynxx 4 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Just a thought... Does this serve to re-think about the choice of search engines? In the beginning I used to do Meta-search but one day a friend said "google it" and I got into a habit of that. Is the choice of search engines just a matter of habit? or because everyone uses that? I don't wanna hijack but does anyone use other than google here? Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Only very rarely. I have used yahoo, and found it to be lacking. I used to use ANZWERS because it could be localised to show only Australian results, but Google now has that capability too. I think Google came to be ubiquitous because it JUST WORKS! There is very little that MS does that works so well so soon after release (slight non-MS bias there). Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Google first, Alta Vista used to use that as default. Link to post Share on other sites
bobby12 0 Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 Google invests heavily in getting itself 'embedded' in applications. For example, Firefox is basically funded by Google in return for being the default search engine. Of course they cannot do that with IE because IE is made by M$ who want to push Bing. So Google has a strong strong incentive to reduce IE market share in order to keep MS away from the lucrative search engine paid ads market share. But Google is much more than a search engine and has been for many years. It does SaaS (software as a service), e.g. gmail, gmaps, gCalendar, etc etc etc. They know everything that users are doing online and use that data to invest in new areas or to increase value to advertisers. Link to post Share on other sites
farquah 0 Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 Google Squared is very useful for work. Answers displayed in spreadsheet format. http://www.google.com/squared Link to post Share on other sites
JA2340 16 Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 I don't get the squared thing. WTF is it supposed to do other than give a couple of results with some other (seemingly useless) stuff. Me, I think I'll stick to Google proper! Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 Which one finds the best porn? Link to post Share on other sites
journey_man 0 Posted June 12, 2009 Author Share Posted June 12, 2009 Hehehe, click on the below link then roll your mouse over the images... This is the "feature" that has caused all the controversy... Click to reveal.. ( Warning! The search results have some explicit links... ) http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sex&FORM=BVLH&filt=custom Link to post Share on other sites
thursday 1 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 it doesn't show anything Link to post Share on other sites
RobBright 35 Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 sex scenes Link to post Share on other sites
journey_man 0 Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 you could always search for something more suitable... Link to post Share on other sites
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