Bing vs. Google: Which Search Engine is Best?

UCDVet

Years ago I used a site that anonymized results from Google, Bing and Yahoo. Even back then, the results were all about the same. I don't think I've ever found anything useful past page two of the results.

Jhcx

Donedeal all the way

But i am a Gman myself. Bing or windows live search or msn were always too confusing.

Seaneh

Anyone interested in knowing why google works so well, have a read of this.

http://ipullrank.com/googlebot-is-chrome/

Dravokivich

RO89 is the search engine I use.

Miss Lockhart

Bing is the default search engine in work and it regularly fails to find what I'm looking for - so on that basis I prefer google.

ispini1984

Gooooooooooooooooooogle :P:P

mickmackey1

mickmackey1 wrote: »

Has Google stopped showing the number of search results when you click the 'pages from Ireland' tab or is it just me?

Thanks for all the helpful answers guys...:rolleyes:

JJJJNR

http://www.doogle.com

Prefer the irish version myself.

Jhcx

mickmackey1 wrote: »

Thanks for all the helpful answers guys...:rolleyes:

How old is your google. i havent seen a only from ireland dot in a year. its a multilingual search. maybe its just the fact i like using google.au,.com(America) and think india and china, even though its set to .ie so truthfully the answer is i can neither conform or deny that they have removed the amount but on the .ie standard its still there. i typed google into google.ie and got About 13,460,000,000 results (0.20 seconds)

Grimebox

Bing. I will fight anyone who says otherwise

iDann

Eircom Phonebook.

the_syco

Went from Altavista to Google a few years back. Find Google good for custom search words ("not", "-", "inurl").

Scioch

I've never actually used bing to be perfectly honest. Its one of these things I forget exists until I hear about it a couple times a year.

Mr. CooL ICE

I have never found anything I've needed on Bing. It's fcking awful.

Whenever I'm on technet or any microsoft site, the built-in search engine never finds what I need. I have to do a google advanced search which always works for me.


+1 on how pathetic Microsoft are to aggressively impose the search engine in every possible way. Google would never ever need to do this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHuZ5qrYX4

Hurricane Carter

Toilet Duck vs Domestos?

I don't care.

Sinfonia

Encarta it.

Cienciano

Doras directory ftw

TheFisherKing

phoenix999 wrote: »

Got bored with Bing after a week.

phasers wrote: »

Bing is hideous,

TheCelticWizard wrote: »

Bing is muck,

seven_eleven wrote: »

Bing is terrible.

Disgraceful and blasphemous remarks, especially at this time of year.

Grimebox wrote: »

Bing. I will fight anyone who says otherwise

That's the spirit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aShUFAG_WgM

Doyler92

I use Google. You don't hear anybody saying will you Bing that for me.

B0X

Doyler92 wrote: »

I use Google. You don't hear anybody saying will you Bing that for me.

You, Sir, are wrong, WRONG!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHuZ5qrYX4

Ruski

There's a reason people "Google" stuff as opposed to "Bing".

Binging doesn't have the same ring to it.

Doyler92

B0X wrote: »

You, Sir, are wrong, WRONG!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfHuZ5qrYX4

I do apologise for my ignorance.

Hippies!

I've never seen Bing before, how does one even get to Bing?
Do I Google Bing, that can't be right surely...

tuxy

the_syco wrote: »

Went from Altavista to Google a few years back. Find Google good for custom search words ("not", "-", "inurl").

Me too and by a few years ago I mean about 12

bodhrandude

Hang on till I Google this to see what is the best search engine ...eh Google!

lavelle72

If I go to Google and type in 'search engine', Dogpile shows above Bing

http://i.imgur.com/eK8zT.png


I find google more useful with better results

Merkin

I don't know of anyone who uses Bing tbh

Duggy747

I google Bing to see what the story is with it, these days :pac:

Anyways, Google is the quickest way to find out if your network is down!

PogMoThoin

Merkin wrote: »

I don't know of anyone who uses Bing tbh

The people that use it don't know their using it either

mike65

scoogle!

Capt'n Midnight

Back in the day Altavista ruled,

9959

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Back in the day Altavista ruled,

...along with Boadicea.

Duggy747

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Back in the day Altavista ruled,

Was THE search engine for downloadable .mp3s and especially video files for...........eh............pleasure................

ScumLord

Bing is built into the windows phone and it's just nowhere near as good as google. I just did a serch on bing there and it comes back with totally irrelevant results. It's like an old school serch engine bringing results from all over the world when your really looking for something local.

At the same time you wonder if google is being too suggestive.

MOH

Wolfram Alpha.


Which might have had more success if they'd picked a name that you could remember without having to google it.

Aciiiiiiiiiiid

A handful of pretentious teenagers from san francisco like bing, for everyone else there's google.

Yakuza

Aciiiiiiiiiiid wrote: »

A handful of pretentious teenagers from san francisco like bing, for everyone else there's google.

It's in vogue in the Hawaiian police department, if those shameless product placements are to be believed.

cashback

I used to go online using a Sega Dreamcast. Excite was the default search engine. I'm amazed it's still going. http://www.excite.com/

Scruffles

masker wrote: »

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:

am a microsoftarian; sort of like a vegitarian but instead of not eating meat am against microsoft claptrap.
will probably never change from google-not for a very long time,though used to use lycos years ago to back in the olden days.
do they acualy run bing on windows based servers?

I used to go online using a Sega Dreamcast. Excite was the default search engine. I'm amazed it's still going. http://www.excite.com/

same here,mmmmmmm, the delightful frustration of the dream key cd deciding to randomly fail when it wants,and then the god awful twenty six k modem.... still,some forums loaded on it,the sega europe forum that was accessible from it with all the VMU uploads was pretty awesome,cant ever remember using excite.

The Aussie

None of the above. Firefox foe me

saiint

yahoo search
beats all

grenache

People actually use Bing????

Its actually rubbish. Google actually finds what you're searching for. Used Bing once and it sent me around in circles.

Google all the way. Google is a now a verb for a reason. Something Bing will never be.

Tomk1

Been using bing for well over a year, It's always been not great, but I like a challenge, sometimes you almost have to lead it to a website, but lately it's really getting worse, some page results just seem complete ramdom, afraid to use more terms in defining what I'm looking for as results just go further of target or the "no result" (A search engine that often comes back with "no result").

Bing reminds me of a dog, you throw out a bone and say fetch, sometimes comes back with the bone or something else & you almost have to walk over and point at the bone, sometimes gets lost & sometimes justs sits there looking at you with an expression, "you want the bone go fetch it yourself"

I went to Bing-help for help in refining results, their solution if you can't find what your looking for is to wikipedia it, then use the reference links to find the page. Seriously this is actually their solution.

Bing gives a binging headache, but has character & is the underdog, so sticking with it a while longer.

RoyalMarine

Tomk1,

I found that last part hard to believe, but it's actually true!

suicide_circus

Encyclopedia britannica cd rom for windows 95

masker

i m trying bing for a change

juan.kerr

Bing it. I'm sure they'll know.

Teyla Emmagan

This is a joke question, right?

TheDoc

I worked for MS for 18 months and even we all used Google.

Everyone in the know, was aware Bing copied the Google search algorithms, wether that is still the case or not I don't know.

I'm all for moving from the "norm" to another type of software or platform if I feel it will grow, or needs help growing, but with Microsoft and the web, you can be sure it will be rubbish.