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disolitude on 16 January 2013
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babuks said:
disolitude said:
babuks said:
I think Google would have been better for Facebook. Surely they called for higher price but their technology is far superior than Bing. Anyhow, I don't think Facebook needs Google like search ability, so Bing is ok.


In terms of just searches I don't see any huge superiority on the Google side. Google has better integrated services like Maps, but if we're talking searches only, you're blowing things out of proportion with that statement. 

I don't think you understand what Bing will do for Facebook or what this product is. It's not a generic search box...


Not going into debate on what Bing can do on Facebook because I think Bing is fine for search in facebook as not lots to search for there comparing to Google.com.

Now, today I searched for 'Cold pressed extra virgin' on google, looking for what the benefit of this type of olive oil. The search result google showed was enough for me to gather knowledge on the subject. On the other hand, Bing showed me 'extra virgin coconut oil' on the top. I don't find Bing's image search a comfortable feature to use too. So, I guess Google is 'far superior' is not a thing I stretched out of proportion.

It just sounds to me like you are familiar and comfortable with Google.

I did a comparison with the exact same search as you and results are nothing one could use to conclude one is "far superior" to the other. Most relevant results are there on both searches and both list other types of oil. If you wanted olive oil I would suggest putting it in the search.

Google

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-tbtCOm3PH1o/UPb7wRZHTeI/AAAAAAAABEk/DcMCQLWUR5s/s1106/Google%2520oil.jpg

Bing

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-MF7xjrDkuw8/UPb7wqKqI4I/AAAAAAAABEo/zMPYhESk7Yg/s1253/bing%2520oil.jpg

Both are same shit to me. If you saw the very first ad on Bing to list coconut oul, then most likely this was an ad. To explain why this happened...companies pay for word targeting on searches and someone like Ford will bid to target users when they search for GM. Same thing probably happened here when coconut oil maker is targeting olive oil searches.

Duckduckgo beats both of them in layout IMO and provides same quality searches.