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I wonder how much of it is due to their rewards program. Shameful admission: Bing is my primary search engine, since they pay me (approx $50 over the past 18 months). 90+% of the time the search results are as good as Google, and re-searching when it isnt takes a few seconds.
By that measure, you earn about $2.7 a month, and that is sufficient for you to use Bing over Google!?
At the moment I don't use Bing for two reasons: 1) it's Microsoft 2) it's not better than Google I'd gladly use it more if they would fix #2. Google has gotten horribly bad about not searching for what I ask it for. It's been castrated. It insists on returning what it thinks I want, not what I asked for. I know that for 99% of the people that's the right thing to do, but I really hate that Google has given the shaft…
Can you give an example? Sometimes it cannot find what I am searching for, but I have never thought it was intentional.
Another is the date control, google thinks older is better but it very often isn't.
The date options suck too. Last week is usually zero hits, last month maybe one unrelated one, but then last year returns far too many. What I really want is to add a weighting so that newer stuff has higher priority.
Example that blew away a colleague at work using a Surface Pro: "Cortana - I'm trying to find an Excel function to do X & Y. What should I use?" Not only did Bing find a serviceable answer, but because we made the search while Excel was opened, the function was auto-populated in the highlighted cell.
2) Some of the Bing/Cortana cognitive intelligence APIs are pretty cool and pretty available to anyone. As an example, I was hacking at a chat bot for Skype + Slack for fun one weekend, and I noticed that there was a tool that could take an image, and provide a description of what was in the image. If it was of a baseball player, the level of detail would be down to the color of her/his shirt.
I use DDG as my default at home, Google at work and Bing on my phone. My main complaint is the inability to restrict searches by date from their mobile version. As others mention the name is just godawful. Chanandlerbong.com would be an improvement.
I don't know that as someone who uses DuckDuckGo, you can really complain about Bing's name.
I wonder how much of it is due to their rewards program. Shameful admission: Bing is my primary search engine, since they pay me (approx $50 over the past 18 months). 90+% of the time the search results are as good as Google, and re-searching when it isnt takes a few seconds.
By that measure, you earn about $2.7 a month, and that is sufficient for you to use Bing over Google!?
1) I always recommend to my friends to give Cortana more than a 5 second consideration - especially if they're Windows users. Since Cortana primarily uses Bing, there's always a hesitation - but it's surprisingly fun and an effective AI "assistant." I'm still working on understanding the Office 365 capabilities, as I discover some cool ones here and there Example that blew away a colleague at work using a Surface Pro…
Why do I need to give it access to my search history and email to be able to find excel functions for me?
So I use Linux Mint to avoid that bother, after an Adobe PDF Reader installed a free version of McAfee and i think changed my search engine in Windows 10 because I forgot to do a custom install and tell it not to or whatever.
Firefox changed from Google to Yahoo, and Chrome uses Google and I use more than one web browser to test out webpages and site designs and other stuff. I preview any web app I am designing in different web browsers to see if I need to change HTML or CSS or whatever to make it look better, even how it looks on Mobile devices.
I sort of want my web search to come from Google, I put Adsense on my website and Youtube page. I want to see how SEO works in Google for my Adsense pages.
I admit that Bing has improved over the years, but it is not enough to convince me to switch from Google to Bing just yet. I get more referrals from Google for some reason than I do from Yahoo or Bing.
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Search tools → All results → Verbatim This prevents basically all of Google's word heuristics, like searching for related words or dropping parts of the search.
I didn't know that one, since I use Google search without JavaScript enabled. Show me how to do that search qualification ahead of time, e.g. from the Firefox search box, and not as a post processing step after a search is completed. Or how to do that without JavaScript enabled. That kind of thing was easily possible before. A long time ago I bought a book called Google Hacks[1]. It had all sorts of good tips on how…
Add this as a search provider:
http://mycroftproject.com/search-engines.html?name=google+ve...
The '&tbs=li' paramater is the magic flag, for 'literal'
Maybe Microsoft has the big multi-product company thing figured out.