Should You Bing In The New Year? - Comments Page 1

I've tried Bing a few times, but always find my way back to Google. Bing just doesn't deliver for me.

I use Duckduckgo, It is a Mozilla Firefox addon, or you can favorite it with I.E. I find it to get me to the web page I am looking for without a ton of advertisers at the head of the line.

As an academic librarian for 25 years, naturally I prefer the saying "Librarians - the original search engine". ;-). Most of the time, though, when using a web search engine, I prefer Duck Duck Go. It doesn't index as many pages as Google, but does often beat Google on relevancy. And, if you are looking for an official site, it kindly labels them with an official site icon. Worth checking out.

It's getting so I use https://duckduckgo.com/ for more and more of my searches. Besides professing to keep my search more anonymous, they don't inflate the number of responses by wild guesses as to what they think I am looking for.

Personally, I prefer Ixquick HTTPS for privacy. Thank you for your extremely informing newsletters!

Lets be straight up about this. All search engines are a pain in the butt! NONE, I repeat NONE of them can give you a straight up response no matter how many advanced criteria you use in an advanced search.

If you tell Google advanced search you want it to find "Porsche", only "Porsche" and nothing else you will still get hundreds, if not thousands of references to every other car ever manufactured anywhere in the world.

THEY ARE ALL BORDERLINE USELESS! "Better than nothing" is the only reason to keep them!

PS - How is it that the SEOs are so much better than the search engine programmers?

I find Bing to be almost useless. I have had little luck in getting the information I seek. Despite the lack of privacy, I find all the Google apps to be well-coordinated and helpful. I've also learned to manipulate Google Search to get the results I want. Think I'll stick with Google, thanks. BTW, I have Ghostery. Love it.

Thanks for your input Bob .. you are right in regards to the smear tactics by MS . As for me and all my own research regarding search engines ( and I'm no newbie by any stretch of the word ) .. I personally do not use either Google or Bing , with all the evasiveness of our personal privacy's in today's online snooping by our Gov and various agency's I use a completely private search engine that does and will not share your search info ... I would suggest all to check out " Duck duck Go " and there is anther one just as good ( which I cannot remember the name ) , I have encountered no problems using the search engine I use in coordination with the and on " WOT " to ensure you are not going to a searched site that is either not encrypted or is full of spam . Anyhow, this is my take and I do not have any desire to have anyhting to do with Google nor Bing both are riff with un-guaranteed privacy in a nut shell . Marc

Bing, no. Google does come in handy for things like 15 F = ? C type things. (- 9.4)

Generally though I use ask dot com for searches, seems to do a good job.

Just out of curiosity, I put my name in quotes, added the state I live in, and added -LinkedIn to get rid of all the noise LinkedIn supplies.

I got 303 hits in Google, 35 in Bing. Most of the Google hits were really me, so Bing missed a whole bunch of references. Admittedly, most of the missed references were old, as am I, but when I'm looking for something, I want all the references. I'm sticking with Google.

I have tried many search engines and always come back to Google, for all the reasons you mentioned. If there's something I think I must "hide" I use StartPage, but Google is the best, in my book.

First,I like Windows, I think Office is the best suite out there and always has been. THAT SAID...Bing just doesn't work and cannot compete at this point in time for All the reasons you(Bob) mentioned. That 'test' of users who preferred Bing 2 to 1? That's bizarre. I've never heard one person say they "Bingged it" !!!

Like you Bob I think Google is best. But I've sold out to BING. They offer points for searches and rewards for points. If I'm searching and my info is being harvested it's a plus if I receive something. So for now I'm with #2 BING. Just watch that your searches are tallied they aren't always. Google still rules.

I dumped Google about six weeks ago when they would not let me turn off safe search. Moderate, or Safe I was told (in script of course), were my only choices. Microsoft, and Yahoo, allow me to. I am sure many will immediately think, why would you want to. To that I refer you to why does someone want to climb a mountain. Best regards. john.

I find Bing Annoying. I no longer use it.

I have a new Windows 8.1 computer that uses Bing and I don't like the way it suggests websites after a few keystrokes. I prefer Google or DuckDuckGo.

My all time favorite is still www.Vroosh.com
Only gives you relevant answers and not from 'paid' sites. On Google the link I want is down on the second page, on Vroosh it is #1. Nuf said

Tried BING several times & while generic searches return much of the same results specific searches reveal a much different picture. It seems BING returns only what BING wants me to see while GOOGLE hangs all the laundry on the line. I too find MS ad campaign distasteful and makes me acutely aware that todays MS is not the same company who brought us Windows. Thank-you GOOGLE!

Used Bing for years. Try google again and go back to Bing. Have browser screen set large (CTRL+) as is large screen, easy to read. Don't notice ads on right. See few pictures except for an Images entry, use Chrome browser.

How can one even consider Bing for a search engine?

Bing does not have anything like Google’s “Advanced Search”. Without these features, a search engine is absolutely useless.

Google’s “Advanced Search” is far from being perfect but it is the best available today.

A couple of years ago I gave a Google executive my “wish list” of features for “Advanced Search”. He promised that all would be implemented soon. I still wait...

An excellent part of Google is “Google Scholar”. Google evidently provides it for free as there are no ads.