Bing vs. Google: Which Search Engine is Best?

masker

Microsoft's search engine claims users prefer it to Google.



What's your experience ?


i tried it myself . i like bing very much, the fb integration, colorful pages, bing destop and lot of more stuf, .......... :cool::rolleyes:

TsuDhoNimh

masker wrote: »

wats ur experience ?

The bingiton challenge Bing held (like the Pepsi challenge, two sets of search engine results side by side and unbranded with users picking the better set of results) was a resounding success. It finished with results somewhere around the 2:1 mark in favour of Bing. Did it change many peoples minds and convert them over to the search engine though? No.

The most relevant point here is that you're asking an Irish audience. It's a fact that Bing still haven't got to grips with local search and in comparison to Google their results with local interest (even on a national scale and not a city one) outright suck. This will continue to improve (as the general algorithms have improved dramatically over the last number of years), but for the moment they're not even in the same league as Google.

In terms of ease of manipulation and sophistication of their anti-manipulation measures, they're also playing catchup and significantly behind the competition. It's not all that apparent in the results due to the fact that most people focus attention on Google's market share and don't target Bing, but if they do claw back that share without significant improvements to the antispam side of things (which are ongoing - I'm sure most in the industry are familiar with Duane Forrester's increasing presence) it will suffer.

With the improvements that have been made and are continuing to be made, Bing is improving. The potential they have, it's clear they they can claw back more of the market share that Google hold. But for the moment, especially in an Irish context, there's no comparison between the two.

biko

Not a Blog/Wiki issue.
>> AH

Google all the way baby.

GarIT

I use bing, apparenlty im a Microsoft fanboy.

phoenix999

Google will always be No. 1. Got bored with Bing after a week.

GLaDOS

i use google because... well never really thought about it

N64

Whats google? I still use ask Jeeves

Duckworth_Luas

Hold on while I Ask Jeeves!

Chucken

I just type stuff in the box above and I don't care who gets me the info!

shopaholic01

Chucken wrote: »

I just type stuff in the box above and I don't care who gets me the info!

I'm guessing you're about as technical as I am, Chucken:D.

Celly Smunt

internet explorer + avg search=Internet of gods.

PC CDROM

But It's Not Google!

Sky King

I like the clean white virginal look of a google page, just waiting to search for me.

say_who_now?

Bing = bright colors and bad search.

Google = blank page and great search.

Rocket science it ain't!

PC CDROM

Chucken wrote: »

I just type stuff in the box above and I don't care who gets me the info!

I'm with you

Alta Vista and all that jazz.

Antar Bolaeisk

Lycos

Edit: Non joke answer: Google (mainly for the reasons stated above about local searching).

phasers

Bing is hideous, I'm a google user all the way but for some reason my college has google blocked so I'm stuck with ugly, inferior bing during the week.

I like clean, simple pages. And Google image search is streets ahead

Kimbot

Pfffffftttttttt.... Altavista

MJ23

Google all the way. An awful lot better than Bing.

af_thefragile

But Google is watching you mastrubate!

BillyMitchel

As long as its not Internet Explorer I don't care but Chrome is class in fairness.

af_thefragile

af_thefragile wrote: »

But Google is watching you mastrubate!

And Microsoft isn't?

I'm more google for the reasons stated above.

What the number 1 search term for Bing? Google :pac:

demanufactured

Altavista...

Zebra3

Bing is very poor compared to Google.

Needs to really work on its cyberstalking.

Where To

I lost my ability to search pages from Ireland on google last week. Can't get it back

Now when I google my nearest chiropidist I get To Soo Fuk in Shanghai.

1ZRed

Chucken wrote: »

I just type stuff in the box above and I don't care who gets me the info!

Ahhh! Where's the fanboyism in that?!


Yore doin' it wrong!

mickgotsick

grep pron http://*

say_who_now?

Where To wrote: »

I lost my ability to search pages from Ireland on google last week. Can't get it back

Now when I google my nearest chiropidist I get To Soo Fuk in Shanghai.

You're still getting the proper search results, well, in Irish at least, but with terrible google translation-

It's "Tús Ufásach", or in localised english, "a bad start", but at least you can be assured a happy ending!

southcentralts

Who or what Vs Google - best to Google this Bing thing to check out what it is.

keith16

Where To wrote: »

I lost my ability to search pages from Ireland on google last week. Can't get it back

Now when I google my nearest chiropidist I get To Soo Fuk in Shanghai.

Ah I know the Soo Fuks well. Is young Mick Soo Fuk still doing the teaching? He was a great worker on the bog.

TheCelticWizard

Bing is muck, marginally better than Yahoo. Got stuck using a wp7 device for a few weeks this year, painful.