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thranx on 07 March 2013

Google looks better to me with less stuff going on and I get better results from it



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sethnintendo on 07 March 2013

Just tried that bingiton.



bing won 4 rounds
nintendo Google
wii u Bing
sex Bing
microsoft Bing
workaholics Bing

Still not going to use it because it basically looks the same with just a little variation. I don't care about MS points either so that isn't any advantage. I have my email with Google also so I am content with Google being my homepage.



Jay520 on 07 March 2013

Simplicity. Aesthetics. Plus Google always has some new feature that keeps me from growing jaded.

I've tried Bing, but I didn't see any advantages worth switching over for.



Jaywood2010 on 07 March 2013
theprof00 said:
I did bingiton, and got google 5 out of 5 times. so surprising...


Seth did it and 4/5 Bing.  What i said is i bet you dont notice a difference.  I know for me most of the time i just randomly pick one or the other because i see little to no difference




       

theprof00 on 07 March 2013
JayWood2010 said:
theprof00 said:
Here's my impressions.
Whenever I am using someone's computer, open internet, and do a search in the top right bar, if I don't see what I'm looking for in three pages, I always double check to make sure I'm not using bing, and 9 times out of 10, I was using bing.


I've never had that problem.  I search a lot too.  I max out on points every day easily and i dont have a complaint yet.  Although i would like them to add the trace picture feature.

Thing is my google-fu is pretty fantastic. I can always find exactly what I'm looking for within 6-7 results.
Bing almost always gives me the weirdest results that have nothing to do with what I'm looking for.

Like, I searched "comicopia new releases" on bing. comicopia website not even returned. Googled returns it as the first result. This is what I'm talking about.



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Jaywood2010 on 07 March 2013
theprof00 said:
JayWood2010 said:
theprof00 said:
Here's my impressions.
Whenever I am using someone's computer, open internet, and do a search in the top right bar, if I don't see what I'm looking for in three pages, I always double check to make sure I'm not using bing, and 9 times out of 10, I was using bing.


I've never had that problem.  I search a lot too.  I max out on points every day easily and i dont have a complaint yet.  Although i would like them to add the trace picture feature.

Thing is my google-fu is pretty fantastic. I can always find exactly what I'm looking for within 6-7 results.
Bing almost always gives me the weirdest results that have nothing to do with what I'm looking for.

Like, I searched "comicopia new releases" on bing. comicopia website not even returned. Googled returns it as the first result. This is what I'm talking about.

As i said i havent ran into that problem at all.  I notice no difference between the two as far searches goes. That is why rewards make it a game changer to me.




       

Jay520 on 07 March 2013
theprof00 said:
JayWood2010 said:
theprof00 said:
Here's my impressions.
Whenever I am using someone's computer, open internet, and do a search in the top right bar, if I don't see what I'm looking for in three pages, I always double check to make sure I'm not using bing, and 9 times out of 10, I was using bing.


I've never had that problem.  I search a lot too.  I max out on points every day easily and i dont have a complaint yet.  Although i would like them to add the trace picture feature.

Thing is my google-fu is pretty fantastic. I can always find exactly what I'm looking for within 6-7 results.
Bing almost always gives me the weirdest results that have nothing to do with what I'm looking for.

Like, I searched "comicopia new releases" on bing. comicopia website not even returned. Googled returns it as the first result. This is what I'm talking about.



Yeah, after using Google for so long, you sort of learn how to manipulate searches to better communicate with Google's engine.

enrageorange on 07 March 2013

Because I'm used to using google. I don't have any complaints, and so have no desire to use a different search engine. I've tried bing out and it's perfectly fine. But I see no reason to change from google if I don't have any problems with it.



venomcarnage on 07 March 2013
JayWood2010 said:
theprof00 said:
JayWood2010 said:
theprof00 said:
Here's my impressions.
Whenever I am using someone's computer, open internet, and do a search in the top right bar, if I don't see what I'm looking for in three pages, I always double check to make sure I'm not using bing, and 9 times out of 10, I was using bing.


I've never had that problem.  I search a lot too.  I max out on points every day easily and i dont have a complaint yet.  Although i would like them to add the trace picture feature.

Thing is my google-fu is pretty fantastic. I can always find exactly what I'm looking for within 6-7 results.
Bing almost always gives me the weirdest results that have nothing to do with what I'm looking for.

Like, I searched "comicopia new releases" on bing. comicopia website not even returned. Googled returns it as the first result. This is what I'm talking about.

As i said i havent ran into that problem at all.  I notice no difference between the two as far searches goes. That is why rewards make it a game changer to me.


I have had alot of problems with bing not doing as good of a job as google in search results and it comes down to if something is not broke why try to fix it google works perfectly fine for most people who use it.



ArnoldRimmer on 07 March 2013

Never used Bing before, but the results list looks like they just try to mimic Google - just slightly worse.

Furthermore, while I don't exactly love Google, I have to admit that they offer a number of great and free services (things like Google Maps etc.), and these are better integrated into the search results. Microsoft on the other hand - do they even have any really popular web services besides Bing nowadays? Can't think of any right now.