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Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by cblconfederate »

flohofwoe wrote: post #58
cblconfederate wrote: post #34

Dear Microsoft, You fools, you own a gate to the internet. When i search 8*9 in the start menu, show me the result of the multiplication instead of a link to "search web for 8*9". Make the menu auto-complete with the titles of the first 5 web results instead of random ads. Make it work well as an actually useful extension of search. Forget about edge and bing.com, you will care about the brand name later. (You can th…

No thanks, I'd rather have a simple and obvious checkbox to disable all this sleazy web crap in the Windows UI. If I want to search the web, I use a web browser. If I want to search my machine, I would like to use the Windows search feature ( if it would actually work).

By the same token we shouldn't need all that crap in omnibox either. It is all about the quality of information and decluttering

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by OJFord »

egeozcan wrote: post #17
politelemon wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Observe many people and you’ll see a maddening pattern of browser use: they will use any available method to get to google, and then they will put a url into the google search text box. Perhaps the address bar is inconveniently too high on the screen, or maybe they just don’t know what a url is. I would have been dismissive of this a few years ago, but I would have been wrong. I have seen many people including deve…

> "thank you but not interested in this micro efficiency" smile I've seen a friend press caps lock, type a letter and press caps again to type capital letters. That's the smile I got when I introduced them the shift key. Also the smile my niece had when the car mechanic was explaining to him how he could spare some gas money by up-shifting early. Also the smile I had when my wife was giving me tips on how to plan mee…

> Also the smile my niece had when the car mechanic was explaining to him how he could

Apologies if it was just a typo, but in case English is a second/nth language just FYI that your 'niece' is your brother or sister's daughter; I think you mean 'nephew' (brother or sister's son).

(And, er, if a niece 'identifies' as 'he/him', then I would assume (but who am I to tell them etc.) they would also identify as a son and a nephew thenceforward.)

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by tim333 »

People underestimate the value of familiarity. I use Google rather than Bing not because I know it's better or such like but I'm used to it and can't be bothered to learn the quirks of some other system. So if I had to search on a computer with Bing as default I'd probably type Google and use that. Bit like I use English rather than French not because it's a better language but because I don't want to spend ages learning a new one. In the discussion the other day on why people use Chrome rather than Firefox was Firefox changes the user interface and disabled the extensions they use. On the other hand as far as I can tell Chrome works basically the same it always did.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by mavhc »

egeozcan wrote: post #17
politelemon wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Observe many people and you’ll see a maddening pattern of browser use: they will use any available method to get to google, and then they will put a url into the google search text box. Perhaps the address bar is inconveniently too high on the screen, or maybe they just don’t know what a url is. I would have been dismissive of this a few years ago, but I would have been wrong. I have seen many people including deve…

> "thank you but not interested in this micro efficiency" smile I've seen a friend press caps lock, type a letter and press caps again to type capital letters. That's the smile I got when I introduced them the shift key. Also the smile my niece had when the car mechanic was explaining to him how he could spare some gas money by up-shifting early. Also the smile I had when my wife was giving me tips on how to plan mee…

Everyone does the caps lock thing now, I blame phones, but they must know about Shift to type!"£$%^&*() etc, surely.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by mavhc »

tpmx wrote: post #7

But Google says its service is simply the most popular. "We have submitted evidence showing that the most common search query on Bing is, by far, 'Google'" I assume they have collected this evidence from Chrome users?

0 Chrome users use Bing (rounded down)

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by mavhc »

5e92cb50239222b wrote: post #6
erk__ wrote: post #5

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I wonder how far up "Google" is as a search termon Google

FWIW https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today+5-y&q=go...

I tried to find the same thing on Bing, but they wanted me to login, says it all really.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by mavhc »

mrweasel wrote: post #63
Kaibeezy wrote: post #20

What’s the most commonly entered URL in Edge? The only one I’ve ever typed is google.com/chrome

Given that Edge is Chromium based, what exactly makes you pick Chrome over Edge?

All my stuff is in Chrome, history, cookies, passwords

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by mavhc »

MomoXenosaga wrote: post #59
Jaruzel wrote: post #25

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Excuse me?! It is disingenuous to infer that a complete demographic doesn't know about how the Internet works. For some late-age Boomers, I would agree that a large percentage of them would do this, but Gen-Xers are in their 40s and 50s, and most of them have literally grown up surrounded by technology.

Old people arent idiots they can learn. My 66 year old mom is cashless, does her banking in an app and orders groceries online.

To be fair, your mother has a child who posts on HN, she's not the average 66 year old.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by egeozcan »

OJFord wrote: post #62
egeozcan wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "thank you but not interested in this micro efficiency" smile I've seen a friend press caps lock, type a letter and press caps again to type capital letters. That's the smile I got when I introduced them the shift key. Also the smile my niece had when the car mechanic was explaining to him how he could spare some gas money by up-shifting early. Also the smile I had when my wife was giving me tips on how to plan mee…

> Also the smile my niece had when the car mechanic was explaining to him how he could Apologies if it was just a typo, but in case English is a second/nth language just FYI that your 'niece' is your brother or sister's daughter ; I think you mean 'nephew' (brother or sister's son). (And, er, if a niece 'identifies' as 'he/him', then I would assume (but who am I to tell them etc.) they would also identify as a son an…

Nephew it is, then! Thanks for the correction!
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