This morning I needed a utility that I remembered hearing about. I couldn’t remember if I’d read about it, been told about it, dreamed about it, etc, nor could I remember the name, but I knew vaguely what it did. After a few frustrating minutes searching on google, trying different potential key words, trying to imagine how they might be pitching it, etc. Nothing.
In desperation, I tried Bing with the same set of keywords as my last attempt on Google. First 3 hits on the page all pointing to the right place. So I went back to Google, tried the same keywords again, and the result I was looking for was on Page 4.
So, completely non-scientific test, shouldn’t read too much into it, but still, I may not be as sceptical about using Bing next time.
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Its interesting that Bing is returning much accurate result compared to google. May be I should do a comparison as well to see how my searches are treated by both bing and google.
Hi Samir,
Maybe. one example probably doesn’t make a clear case. It may just be that it more accurately lines up with my crappy way of trying to find things. Like I said though, it’s made me consider it more seriously.
Eh, good to know. Makes me think about trying it next time.
Thanks Malcolm.
I’ve had better results at times as well. I do both now if I have trouble in either. I only really use Google by default because it’s become habit at this point. Bing is definitely better than Microsoft’s search engines used to be.
I would like to know how Microsoft has managed to hijack my IE4 on my WinME internet PC.
It frequently happens that I put totally valid web addresses into my IE 4 browser, only to land up on bing telling me this address is invalid and suggesting exactly the same address. No, everything is identical, I checked.
For the longest time I thought bing is some sort of virus.
But more importantly, how did Microsoft bing get onto my WinME IE4 browser?!?