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Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by johnaspden »

RistrettoMike wrote: post #130
optimalsolver wrote: post #101

And "Reddit" is probably added to most searches on Google.

I've been shocked how consistently this improves the quality of search results. Searching something like "get new cats to adjust to one another" on Google returns nothing but list-icle, SEO-laden crap with incredibly low information density and no mention of personal experience with the search subject from the ethereal "author" of such posts. Adding site:reddit.com does wonders, but even just typing "get new cats to…

That's a good tip. I just speculatively typed "!r cats adjust" into the search thingy in firefox and got lots of nice reddit threads.

Someone somewhere (probably duckduckgo) thinks 'search on reddit' is useful enough that there's a shortcut for it.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by LocalH »

bellyfullofbac wrote: post #135
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…

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!

I mean, if it wasn't a bug that it was expecting German, then it didn't do anything wrong. The most I could see feasible would be, if you press the wrong decimal separator, the system asks if you want to change or correct the locale setting for math

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by m1ckey »

Jedd wrote: post #124

Alt-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 amazing. I mapped it to Alt+Space.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by 0xmarcin »

I don't use Bing, but I use Yandex from time to time. It's not that bad (not counting being hosted in quasi-democratic country). If Google stopped working one day I would switch to Yandex without much regret.

Bing for me became a meme, a search engine that nobody wants to use but that is nevertheless pushed down your throat by Microsoft (just like IE a few years ago). I tried to use Bing a few times, one thing that I find absolutely annoying are the pictures - every day a new image - I find it very distracting. I am not going to search engine website to watch pictures. I have the same feelings about Doodles, the last one (Olimpic games) really got on my nerves. Maybe there should be a two versions of Google - one for casual browsing and one for actually doing work.

As EU citizen I am really ashamed of EU inability to do big tech. Europe should have its own search engine. US, Russia and China seem superior in that regard. Search engine is no longer a simple indexing app, now it can be used to shape worldviews and do propaganda. Still I do not believe EU can do anything in this regard...

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by costcofries »

herbturbo wrote: post #131
costcofries wrote: post #128

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.

Or for that matter on iOS, the App Store used to download the chrome app to then delete the safari app :)

Also LOL - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4260837

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by jraph »

KKKKkkkk1 wrote: post #157
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

When you type into the Safari address bar, it drops down a list of search results while you're typing. I am guessing this comes from the long-promised Apple search engine. It works well enough that I often find myself skipping the Google search results page altogether.

Aren't these search results coming from Google?

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by soniman »

trabant00 wrote: post #36

I 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.

Bing is my homepage, beautiful photos every day. Search results in US are fine.

Re: 'Google' is most searched word on Bing

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Post by Unklejoe »

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).

Right. We all know how this would end up:

Start->Begin Typing->Wait 10 seconds as the menu hangs because it can't resolve some ad

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