Ask HN: Bing VS Google

#1

Post by am185 » Thu, Mar 09, 2017, 12:52 AM UTC

Google is giving me bad results lately to the point that i have to set my chrome's default omnibox to Bing. Do you guys experience the same?

Re: Ask HN: Bing VS Google

#2

Post by PaulHoule » Thu, Mar 09, 2017, 1:00 AM UTC

What is bad about the results you get? What are you searching for?

Re: Ask HN: Bing VS Google

#3

Post by am185 » Thu, Mar 09, 2017, 1:13 AM UTC

PaulHoule wrote: post #2

What is bad about the results you get? What are you searching for?

my latest search was "century city makati" and set it to "past 24hrs", google list a never ending of unrelated results. bing list as much related results as needed, and lead me to a forum in the top result which gives me good idea of what i am looking... in the past few days i have to check Bing for results after I queried google, now i have to set bing permanently.

Re: Ask HN: Bing VS Google

#4

Post by CyberFonic » Thu, Mar 09, 2017, 3:21 AM UTC

I was intrigued by your question. I tried the queries you mentioned on both Bing and Google and got similar responses on the first page. Perhaps our ad-blockers are configured differently. Interesting!

Wonder what other HNers are finding if they perform the same test(s).

Re: Ask HN: Bing VS Google

#5

Post by am185 » Thu, Mar 09, 2017, 5:11 AM UTC

CyberFonic wrote: post #4

I was intrigued by your question. I tried the queries you mentioned on both Bing and Google and got similar responses on the first page. Perhaps our ad-blockers are configured differently. Interesting! Wonder what other HNers are finding if they perform the same test(s).

how many pages of results did you get? did you set "past 24hours"?