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I was curious about the test, but, for me, http://bingiton.com/ goes straight to plain http://www.bing.com . Geolocation, I suppose. I'm in Portugal.
Bing is working worse in terms of results outside the U.S. They don't care about it.
(Note: I work for Bing.)
When I've had my friends take the Bing It On challenge and polled them on the results, they usually prefer Google by about a 2:1 margin, pretty close to what Freakonomics found. It's great advertising for Google.
(Note: I work for Bing.)
When I've had my friends take the Bing It On challenge and polled them on the results, they usually prefer Google by about a 2:1 margin, pretty close to what Freakonomics found. It's great advertising for Google.
Are your friends people like you? Which engine do you like? Is it possible that maybe your friends aren't a representative sample of the average searcher? (Note: I work for Bing.)
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I'm at work, and I wanted to try the challenge, but BingItOn redirects me to Bing. Maybe it's not available outside the U.S.? Bing's results are way less relevant to me than Google's, but Google does have the advantage of a lot more personal data, and a specific subdomain for my country (.uy) which often returns more relevant queries (OTOH for programming I often have to force the U.S. website). That's the reason I d…
You're correct, Bing It On is US only (although I believe there is also a Chinese version). As for Uruguay, we're always working to improve our international coverage - check back soon! (Note: I work for Bing.)
Competition is a good thing, I really hope you can improve on Google's results.
I do happily use a lot of other Microsoft products, so I know you'll give a good fight :)
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Are your friends people like you? Which engine do you like? Is it possible that maybe your friends aren't a representative sample of the average searcher? (Note: I work for Bing.)
I'm referring to my college friends. I work for Google, and my Googler friends are understandably biased; I don't include them in this sample. But I also went to a liberal arts college, and my friends there are fairly representative of educated young people in non-technical fields, and the same 2:1 ratio in favor of Google seemed to show up.
(Note: I work for Bing.)
When I go to bingiton.com it redirects to bing.com so I can't do the challenge.
(Note: I work for Bing.)
tl;dr if you take the Bing challenge and make Bing your default search, try other variations on Bing as you would have on Google. I tried the Bing challenge, and changed my default search to Bing almost a year ago. According to Google I was performing 10k - 20k searches per month, so Bing Rewards was an appealing incentive. Over a years time, those are some decent rewards. Bing results are very good. The notable exce…
(Note: I work for Bing.)
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.
The only downside to DuckDuckGo is the results are terrible -- I don't care the claims are, this search provider doesn't in the same league of intelligent search results as Google or Bing.
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.
What privacy issues does Google have that Bing doesn't?
Like I said though, I don't use either :)