This is similar to safari being used to download and install chrome :)
Would love to know how many people's Safari has been used only once to download Chrome. But of course Apple will never tell us that.
'Google' is most searched word on Bing
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Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
i seem to have turned that off somewhere - better, i think that interface is too much information. Neither of us gets 72 though
I get a calculator showing 72: https://imgur.com/a/ukQtOwn
That calculator looks like that's part of the Bing results page... so it made an HTTPS connection and parsed some HTML, JS and CSS to show what 8*9 is.
It'd be even better if it said "You need to consent to these 100 cookies for us to show you what 8*9 is".
Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing
#133Alt-F2 on KDE brings up krunner - a small text input floating dialog in which you could type, say, 8 * 9 , and be gifted the value 72. No spam accompanies this result. Alternatively if I type 'hacker', I shall be shown the three windows I currently have open, along with the 7 bookmarks, that match that string. Otherwise it's a handy shortcut to launch any application I know is installed on the local host. I believe i…
KRunner is one of the many areas where KDE is "secretly amazing".
The level of polish, robustness, ease-of-use and efficiency of today's KDE versions is incredible. It is lightweight, too. This is the desktop environment that stays out of the way, but here when you need it. There are no strong decisions that surprises anyone, things are familiar, there is no hostility towards users requesting obvious features. The user interface does not change so much from versions to versions, but is rather improved (a lot, in tiny ways).
Only, it is secretly so. Nobody seem to know. I don't know what can be done about this.
KRunner is doubly affected by this. It is not quite discoverable, does not get in the way of users not using it, yet is so convenient. I'm lost whenever I'm using another environment just because KRunner is not here.
(it can also be brought up by alt+space, which matches the keys of Launchpad on Macs)
Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing
#134I find weird to say, but I actually like Bing. It has a LOT less bullshit compared to google. It searches for what I asked it, not about what it thinks I actually want, image search and in general the interface has less dark patterns. My main SE is duckduckgo, but using Bing out of curiosity I was surprised to say "not bad". Compared to google without adblocker which is just awful.
Another good thing with bing is rewards - I get about $5-$10 a month in Amazon vouchers. Was better when I could get skype credit but they stopped it.
Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing
#135Dear 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…
I remember loading the Mac Spotlight and trying to calculate some decimal numbers, let's say 63.10 * 3.50 . But because the Mac was expecting the German locale with "," as a decimal separator, it just silently gave me 2208500 instead of 220.85 (or 220,85).
Wow.. at least show me I goofed up, you useless piece of software!
Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing
#136But 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?
Probably not, I imagine the vast majority of this would be from Edge for Windows users.
How would they get that data?
Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing
#137Dear 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…
Part of Google's success nowadays, I think, is that typing stuff in a browser's address bar takes you straight to Google's search results page. They turned Google into the replacement for typing in web addresses.
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#138Edge had a clean start page like Google. Looks like the MBAs over at Microsoft prevailed over the engineers and UX people to make it look like msn.com of the late 90s.
Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
Searches coming from domain
Could you elaborate on this? Is there a mechanism (e.g. HTTP header) which tells Google this when someone types in "Google" in Bing and presses enter? What if they don't click on the google.com search result?
Yes, it is the referer header, for example this is what my browser sends when clicking a link from Bing after searching for google:
Referer: https://www.bing.com/search?q=google&pq&cvid=3C49B41400954D3...
Google can use that to see your search terms because it in the value of the q attribute.
If they don't go to a Google property then they will still be able to get this information, if the website they do go to uses Google Analytics (which is most of the web).
Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing
#140Dear 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…
This is default behavior on my Pixel phone made by Google. When I swipe up and try to search for apps on my phone, it most often starts showing me search completion results from web.