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Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by hbn »

treesknees wrote: post #121
wodenokoto wrote: post #79

Isn't it also the most searched-for term on Google? People just type "google" in the address bar when they want to go to a search engine.

There is a relevant comic for this https://img.memecdn.com/scroll-wheel_o_903702.jpg and as someone who has worked level 1 helpdesk, it's very true. People find a way to use the system that ends up working for them even if it's convoluted.

I keep my mouth shut cause I know it's absurd to think everyone should learn to use a computer efficiently as possible, but watching most people use a computer is torture for me

Every time they grab the mouse for something that has an easy shortcut I feel the seconds of my life being drained away

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by mjevans »

Consultant32452 wrote: post #110
flohofwoe wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

I get really annoyed when I shop for a part number that has a - and $searchEngine just wants to show me the answer to a subtraction question.

Quotes, "this-string must-exist", is a pattern that all search tools really need to obey. Though I do give them slack if they also match runs of equivalent word-character-only strings E.G. "this string must exist" in the same search.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by bserge »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #137
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…

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.

They also force this behaviour on Chrome and (I'm pretty sure) Firefox.

Used to be, Firefox would show previously visited sites/pages (arranged by how often you visit them) first.

Now it loads Google search results first and I very often step into them like it's some dogshit on the ground.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by amluto »

nolok wrote: post #91
rbobby wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I quite like that the omni box will do math and unit conversions. So handy, so simple.

I think parent point was that if it was well done we would like it in the start menu, but if it was only 99% ok or below we would hate it. Omnibox sucked until it reached a point where it didn't. But microsoft is so focused on competing to google's product that they fail to realize they don't even need to go there. With that said, we're talking about a company who can't even search properly for the installed app give…

Or maybe omnibox sucked until search got so bad that omnibox is better.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by darepublic »

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…

windows is like an early 2000s web site with a title like 'Top Ten Life Hacks ...' with ad ridden pages where you must search through them to barely make out a sniff of the content you were ostensibly promised, and then a 'next page' button that will lead you into another ad ridden nightmare. windows is a corporate created abomination where the combined deluded career ambitions of hundred or so corporate careerists collectively pool and fester

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by nolok »

vips7L wrote: post #123
nolok wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It doesn't, at least not in the way it should. It's not windows figuring it out and giving you a specific result, it's just a webview into Bing, and bing that show the results that way. That's why just under the calculator you have a link to a streetwear clothes brand. You might think "so what, it does work" but 99% of the issues in the start search are due to this offloading to bing that is not aware of your local c…

You can just turn the bing part off.

I know, which then renders parent's point moot and revert to my above message: windows doesn't understand what you're searching for.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by letitbeirie »

darepublic wrote: post #145
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…

windows is like an early 2000s web site with a title like 'Top Ten Life Hacks ...' with ad ridden pages where you must search through them to barely make out a sniff of the content you were ostensibly promised, and then a 'next page' button that will lead you into another ad ridden nightmare. windows is a corporate created abomination where the combined deluded career ambitions of hundred or so corporate careerists c…

They essentially remade Windows in the image of the Bing website. Yeesh.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by iso1210 »

notimetorelax wrote: post #39
mattowen_uk wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something I've noticed with my work machine. The homepage in Edge is some mangled mash up of Bing News tiles and my works' SharePoint activity, and is just branded 'Microsoft'. Non technical people stuck with this homepage are very likely to just type 'Google' into it to "get them out onto the Internet".

And technical people might prefer faster loading lightweight pages to Bing’s. Target audience for bing is weird.

I used google maps the other day on my phone for the first in in ages (to see if they had anything for the fuel issues in the UK at the moment). I was amazed how full of junk I wasn't interested in getting in the way of the actual map.

I remember when google beat places like yahoo and excite because it had a simple clean interface.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by ColinHayhurst »

Cthulhu_ wrote: post #137
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…

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.

Indeed so. More here and on how Firefox is the only mainstream browser, option if you are interested in more than one lens: https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/09/multiple-choice-in-search.ht...

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by hbn »

qwertyuiop_ wrote: post #138

Edge 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.

There's customization options to allow you to turn off everything. Settings cog in the top right -> custom, then set "Quick links" and "Content" to off. Just leaves a search bar and the weather widget
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