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Its a little interesting, I tried Bing for a bit to avoid Google's onerous privacy issues, and I gave up. I moved to DuckDuckGo, haven't been back. The results are usually more relevant for me and I don't have to feed the Big-G machine.
Website operators need to revolt against Microsoft and their bots. We see nearly a thousand parallel connections from their bots, nearly continuously. For only 18% of search use, they seem to consume several times more resources than Google. And for some stupid reason their bing bot and msn bot do not share data but crawl the same pages independently. (and yes we use crawl-delay directive, they ignore it)
https://support.discoverbing.com/eform.aspx?productKey=bingw...
I used to run the Bing Webmaster program, and I know they do support crawl-delay. It could be someone masquerading as BingBot, or simply a bug. Ping me if no one gets back to you and I can follow up.
Marketing aside I find Bing results good. Google is kind of turning into singularity and tends to return only google (or US) centered results (for example youtube only videos). Bing seems to have better diversity.
The opposite is just as annoying if not more: I search in English and google insists on translating my search terms to the local language and displaying local search results. Again: idea for a startup: -like google but 5 years ago.
> When I looked into the claim a bit more, I was slightly annoyed to learn that the “nearly 2:1” claim is based on a study of just 1,000 participants. To be sure, I’ve often published studies with similarly small datasets, but it’s a little cheeky for Microsoft to base what might be a multi-million dollar advertising campaign on what I’m guessing is a low six-figure study. He's right, but a sample of 1,000 is rigorou…
At least for me, it's really quite easy to tell them apart just based on subtleties. I.E. Not the quality of the content itself but just how its presented. And if there are ever images involved, it gets even easier because Google and Bing display them completely differently (and honestly I think Bing does a more elegant/"nicer" job of it)
Its a little interesting, I tried Bing for a bit to avoid Google's onerous privacy issues, and I gave up. I moved to DuckDuckGo, haven't been back. The results are usually more relevant for me and I don't have to feed the Big-G machine.
For what it's worth, I'm pretty sure that most of us/the HN crowd can't fairly do the bingiton challenge. At least for me, it's really quite easy to tell them apart just based on subtleties. I.E. Not the quality of the content itself but just how its presented. And if there are ever images involved, it gets even easier because Google and Bing display them completely differently (and honestly I think Bing does a more…
This is why I'm skeptical of anyone here saying "I got Bing 100%" or "I got Google 100%". It's extremely easy for us to game.
