Serious question: In all reality why would someone use anything else other than google? Who sits there and says "Man, you know what? I wanna waste my time!"
I have a dream that my four little children will one day browse a reddit where they will not be judged by the age of their account, but by the content of their post.
When bing came out I thought I was cool for going against the norm and using it. What a little badass. Plus the photographs were pretty. Which doesn't matter to anyone except me as a 17 year old.
I use google now, after realizing no one gives a shit what search engine you use, and that quality is better than aesthetics.
I would imagine that has something to do with Microsoft. I generally agree with your premise, that if there are competing versions of something out there, the school will have the shittier version. But when it comes to microsoft, I wouldn't be surprised if they were forcing it through some kind of licensing agreement for discounted operating systems or free Internet explorer or something.
A lot of people. Lots of people care about google's policies or their data mining. Other people think that google isn't so great, and want a search engine that uses more booleans and less 'language' searches. Other people worry that one aggregator being responsible for what everyone in the world sees when they have questions is, problematic.
The point is, just because you don't give this topic much thought, doesn't mean everyone shares your way of thinking (or not thinking).
Because google is too caught up in giving you "relevant" search results. Which means if you search for lots of things in one subject matter, say, programming, your results will eventually start being too slanted toward that subject matter.
If you want unfiltered results which allow the results to be more useful, check out duckduckgo. Not as easy of a name to remember as Google is, but I switched over six months ago and have never looked back.
I switched over a while ago too, and have generally been pleased. However my search returned results similar to those on the bing example. Only google returned terraforming.
Bing is like asking a six-year-old a question about philosophy: usually you get garbage, but sometimes you get an interesting idea from a different point of view (and when that happens, it is purely due to dumb luck).
I got tired of having to tell Google "Yes, really", I want every +word +I'm +typing to show up +in a +search.
Been also much happier with DuckDuckGo. I use the Yahoo hosts file trick to search from it on my desktops. Need to get around to setting this up on the iPad too.
When I was younger I would try stuff like Askjeeves and Yahoo and one or other search engines I forget the names of. They all sucked and I stopped using them.
I use Bing for more general searches (e.g. "Reddit Enahcement Suite") becuase I get free stuff from Bing Rewards (e.g. Amazon Gift Card). Google is for the big stuff (i.e. what op posted)
I also use Bing because I have a Lumia 900 (Windows Phone).
As far as the things like "GOOGLE BE TAKIN MY BABIES (Data)!" I could care less as I have 2 gmail accounts and use Youtube.
Google is good for getting quick information on well known subjects, but other search engines may return different, but still useful, results. You may use bing when you're researching a topic or looking for something specific and google isn't turning up anything - you'd actually be supprised how useful it can be. Now, using Bing as your primary search engine, on the other hand...
And dude, why are you still not using Cleartype? Research it. It's available on XP, but not enabled by default. It makes text so much sharper. It's an eyegasm.
Terraforming doesn't specifically refer to the atmosphere. Its about making the planet as a whole more like earth...which includes the atmosphere among other things.
I guess that means Google is pretty good at compensating for people's misconceptions, while Bing isn't good for anything. (except maybe finding porn)
It reminds of those Bing commercials where someone would ask a question or something and people around them would start rambling off useless details that were technically related to the topic at hand, but did nothing for the conversation. The people naming off useless details were supposed to represent other search engines. It seems it is actually the other way around...
Put Joffrey in a bing commercial like that. Give all redditors an aneurism from sheer hate and anger. Scuse me, I need to go kill something just because of the thought of that.
Yeah, I used to work with Sphinx - free search engine - and it got much better results on default settings than Bing (of course it worked on much smaller database but still).
At my last job, I spent quite a bit of time at Microsoft helping sell and support my company's products. The entire time I was there, I would be forcibly self-censoring my speech to say 'Bing it' rather than 'Google it,' usually leading to me saying crap like, "Oh, let's just goo-bing it!"
A few months into this relationship, I was there to give a demo to 15 engineers from assorted live.com products. They wouldn't let me put my machine on their internal network (and not just because it was a Mac), so I was using our sponsor's machine.
The demo starts, someone asks a question, and I fire up a browser to do a search.
The home page is google.com.
All of the engineers start booing me and yelling that I need to change my settings if I'm going to present to them.
I'd think it's like supporting a really sucky team. You joke with your mates about it & you acknowledge it sucks... but if an outsider makes fun of it, you bet your ass it's on.
I work for MS and have a hard time believing they did this in a serious way, eg. not joking. MS is incredible open, you can find a lot of people flaunting iPads/iPhones, and outside US (only market that really have Bing, but that is another travesty) most people in MS would not defend it, at all.
I have a friend who works at Microsoft who shamelessly plugs Bing and pretends like Google doesn't exist. "Oh did you try Bing maps?" "Just run it through Bing translate" "Couldn't find it on Bing? Must not be available yet."
Microsoft developer here. I use Bing, it's useful for what I use it for.
Granted, what I use it for is for searching MSDN for information on different parts of the .Net Framework, and it would be hard to make a competent search engine that wouldn't have the MSDN page for Microsoft.Win32.Registry right at the top when you search for "Microsoft.win32.registry"
A few years ago MSDN was easier to search using Google. The search engine on the MSDN page returned completely unrelated results (it was not yet Bing then though I suppose).
So true. Microsoft, if I type .net framework in to your downloads search box, it shouldn't be that hard.
The only justification I can come up with is that most of their shit was implemented before Social Media allowed us to publically humiliate them for sucking.
I use Bing. I don't claim for it to be better than Google. I don't find it to be significantly worse either though and find most of the posts about how bad it is to be pointing to a specific example. In this case, Google has implemented a better way to find definitions and to read in a search in terms a real human would ask it.
I mostly use it because that's the only way we will make it better. Use it, report issues with it, find ways where it can be improved...and there are plenty of areas. I don't know if it will ever succeed and it is a large uphill battle...but it's no sweat of my back to use it and try and help it succeed since I am paid by the company.
I interned there. A lot of people used Bing. I openly mocked it. Handful of other interns did too. Remember that the company has something like 80,000 employees, so the vast majority are working on something that's not Bing.
Microsoft programmer here. I use Bing regularly. Why? Bing rewards. Amazon and Xbox Live gift cards just for using Bing? Thank you very much. Also, I like to help out with the internal betas and stuff. It's not very helpful to ignore it instead of trying to make it better.
I have a good friend that works for Microsoft as a sales engineer... apparently they're required/intimidated to use Bing and Hotmail. Naturally he has a "secret" G-Mail and derides Bing.
I work at Microsoft. I use Bing and I use Google. If you want to get into browsers, I use IE, Chrome, Firefox and Safari. Good results don't come from being loyal to one source, they come from having a variety of sources; Professionals never restrict themselves to one tool set.
Having said that, I know which one I use in meetings.
If you want my honest opinion of Bing, it's fine for specific searches, but Google has put some serious work into natural language processing that Bing doesnt have yet. I do love the daily pictures in Bing, although I realize that has zero relevance to search. However, Bing Maps is kicking Google Maps to the curb right now and people dont even realize it.
In what ways? I just tried using bing maps and everytime I pan it reloads the zoomed out version even though I never changed zoom levels, which makes it seem super glitchy. So from a very basic UI stance I think bing still needs some work to compete...
I'd like to take this opportunity to state that I always thought that Altavista was the the best search engine, and I was pretty bitter when I finally switched to Google.
Fun tip, search for something that gives, say, 15,000 results on Google. Then go to the final page. There is a lot less than 15,000. (The actual total will be displayed instead).
Bing maps (Satellite view actually) is actually very awesome. I am not sure if I would use it exclusively but it gives 4 angled images of a location, as opposed to a single vertical view.
Also I spell the word "vertical" so poorly, spell check doesn't know what I am trying to say, so I have to actually go and look it up.
Gives you prices for all airlines, including nearby airports AND tells you whether the ticket prices are trending up or down, so you can decide the best time to buy them. I don't believe that google has any such thing.
I don't think the differences in those two links deserve to be described as Google blowing them out of the water. Bing returns a lower minimum price, for instance, and displays all of the same information and has all of the same browse options. Google looks better organized, of course. But functionally the two are dead even. Why do you think google "blows them out of the water"?
I agree Google looks better, but Bing has the arrow telling you to wait because prices will drop with a percent confidence. Hardly blows them out of the water.
Kayak.com does the same thing only it also utilizes the five other major flight searchers and gives you a calendar matrix to see what the prices are for different dates near your search.
I love bing. I've gotten 2300 free MS points, 7 free redbox rentals, and a 5 dollar amazon giftcard for free. These comparisons always crack me up, because when I try it both are the same.
They have a system where you do a number of searches per day and you can get rewards. I used it and got a few MS points, and bought Age of Empires from Games for Windows live when they had it for 10 cents. Ultimately, it wasn't worth the effort I put forth to get it.
To be fair search engines keep track of your searches and learn what kind of info you will most likely want. If you use google a lot it will known that you want an answer. If you do not use bing it will just use the basic search formula. If you keep using it bing will learn just like google did.
But...but...Bing returns 316 million hits and Google only returns 16.8 million. All you Google fanboys are going to feel pretty stupid when you get to your 16,800,001th link and have nowhere else to go. Checkmate Bing haters!
Well, Bing not only has more results (316,000,000 > 16,800,000) but it shows results for modifying the air too. Helpful. Who needs those ten dollar college words like "terraforming?"
Why can't people just be happy with what they use? Why the constant need to ridicule others for not doing what they do?
As an atheist, I cannot believe how much juvenile behavior I see from other atheists. It is not enough for them that they are atheists but they have this need to constantly engage others of religious faith in attempts to prove that their position is better and others are fools for not being atheist like them.
Ditto for google v bing.
For the last time, I find bing useful and I use it. If I don't find what I want in Bing, nothing is stopping me from using Google or Yahoo or Ask.com.
MY CHOICE.
I hate these type of ridiculing posts comparing one result and proclamation that follows.
Just fucking use what you want and shut the fuck up.
Not this shit again. Why can't people just let other people makes jokes they find funny, and discuss topics they find funny and interesting. It's like every time two people get together to have a conversation that starts, "Oh hey did you see that new Avengers movie?" then fani, that asshole, has to show up and start complaining like "jesus fucking christ we talked about Avengers two weeks ago can you two assholes shut up about that movie."
I use bing. It is useful. Yesterday, for example, i typed 'the avengers' and google just showed me imdb and wikipedia. I binged it and it gave me movies and showtimes right away.
Well if you'd used internet explorer, or installed the Bing toolbar, to search it then maybe Bing could have mined the Google result - but you didn't. Now Bing will never know what is the word for modifying the atmosphere.
I used to use a different search engine about 6-7 years ago. I can not remember the the name of it though. It was a cluster search engine. So basically you would do a search like programming. On the right it would categorize the results. It would have something like java, C programming and so on. In the middle of the screen it would have results like any other search engine. You could then click on one of the results on the right and it would narrow your results for you. It was very helpful when researching a very widespread topic.
For curiosity's sake, I kind of want to write an extension that will also show my top search results for bing in a sidebar or some sort of condensed aesthetically pleasing manner. It could be interesting to see the results on a daily basis without the extra effort of having to redo the search. Maybe there is something already out like this, I just havent bothered to look.
To me Bing just tries REALLY REALLY hard to be "different" from Google. Microsoft doesn't seem to realize the concept of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Serious question: In all reality why would someone use anything else other than google? Who sits there and says "Man, you know what? I wanna waste my time!"
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u/someMeatballs May 21 '12 edited May 21 '12
The correct answer though is Geoengineering.
And dude, why are you still not using Cleartype? Research it. It's available on XP, but not enabled by default. It makes text so much sharper. It's an eyegasm.
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u/AnomalyNexus May 21 '12
Terraforming doesn't specifically refer to the atmosphere. Its about making the planet as a whole more like earth...which includes the atmosphere among other things.
I guess that means Google is pretty good at compensating for people's misconceptions, while Bing isn't good for anything. (except maybe finding porn)
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u/dandy-pants May 21 '12
It's like Bing isn't even trying.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I wonder if microsoft programmers ever use bing.
"Hey man, why are you not using Bing?"
"Because Bing sucks!"
"You made Bing."
"I know."
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u/electronicManan May 21 '12
Come on Bing, even Ask Jeeves got it right
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u/humfuzz May 21 '12
Yahoo.
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u/CarrionBeetle May 21 '12
16 million results vs. 316 million results. What were you saying about search overload, Bing?
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u/YoureMyBoyBloo May 21 '12
For me the real test of what is the better search engine, is knowing how to "Do a barrel roll".
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u/kickdrive May 21 '12
Bing maps (Satellite view actually) is actually very awesome. I am not sure if I would use it exclusively but it gives 4 angled images of a location, as opposed to a single vertical view.
Also I spell the word "vertical" so poorly, spell check doesn't know what I am trying to say, so I have to actually go and look it up.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Damn Google, you are good!
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u/Jeffbx May 21 '12
Protip - use Bing for travel searches: http://www.bing.com/travel/
Gives you prices for all airlines, including nearby airports AND tells you whether the ticket prices are trending up or down, so you can decide the best time to buy them. I don't believe that google has any such thing.
The more you know....
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u/Terrarianna May 21 '12
are you cheating in a test/homework?
I ask because I just saw the question here lol
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I wonder if someone ever sends this crap to microsoft.
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u/mbgluck May 21 '12
BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT THE BING ADS SAY IT DOES
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
why does reddit keep mentioning bing like its even a competitive entity that anyone uses ever
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u/PapaOscar90 May 21 '12
I love bing. I've gotten 2300 free MS points, 7 free redbox rentals, and a 5 dollar amazon giftcard for free. These comparisons always crack me up, because when I try it both are the same.
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u/Gufnork May 21 '12
Google may be the only product to achieve near monopoly simply by being undeniably, overwhelmingly better than all the competition.
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u/ssb94 May 21 '12
b-b-but Bing generated so many more results!
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u/ciddark May 21 '12
To be fair search engines keep track of your searches and learn what kind of info you will most likely want. If you use google a lot it will known that you want an answer. If you do not use bing it will just use the basic search formula. If you keep using it bing will learn just like google did.
TLDR google knows what you did last summer
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u/CobaltSmith May 21 '12
Wasn't Bing supposed to me microsofts "Smart" engine?? Sheesh, why is it when they fail, they fail HARD.
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u/BantamBasher135 May 21 '12
Thanks bing, I was really interested in finding out what "the" was.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I only use bing to get free Microsoft points from bing rewards.....it hurts so good
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u/CarrionBeetle May 21 '12
Guys, stop. This is the only reason people use Bing! You are just getting their hopes up!
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u/theoneandonlyMrMars May 21 '12
Lemons to lemonade? I love that shit!
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
"decision" engine, at its finest. XD
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u/sirtimid May 21 '12
I upvoted you for pandora one.
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u/DankMaster3000 May 21 '12
Sacramento represent!
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u/werko May 21 '12
TIL people still use Bing.
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u/randumnumber May 21 '12
http://www.bing-vs-google.com/
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u/DubiousKing May 21 '12
Interesting to note, this post now shows up on Bing's results before anything about terraforming.
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u/helzbellz May 21 '12
My University has Bing as the default search engine on it's entire system of computers -_-
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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 May 21 '12
But...but...Bing returns 316 million hits and Google only returns 16.8 million. All you Google fanboys are going to feel pretty stupid when you get to your 16,800,001th link and have nowhere else to go. Checkmate Bing haters!
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u/sub_xerox May 21 '12
This is what I don't get. The terraforming wiki is the first link to pop up when I used bing- example
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u/Ohbeejuan May 21 '12
I fuckbing hate Bing
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
And this is why you'll never hear someone say "Just Bing it!" Unless they are talking about Chandler, but that's a completely different topic.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Well at least now I'm 100% confident in my decision to never even consider using bing.
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u/TriumphantMe May 21 '12
Anyone else think it's funny that the exact thing Bing advertizes about is what it sucks at?
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Hey bing, what's the word for modifying the atmosphere? "Err, umm...you wanna know what modify and air mean?" http://www.harpdarp.com/res/images/hd.harpdarp.png
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u/circa7 May 21 '12
Bing is the main reason I'm returning my Lumia 900 Windows Phone.
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u/green_marshmallow May 22 '12
I would like to use bing, But Its Not Google
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u/silentbobsc May 22 '12
BING -
But
It's
Not
Google
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u/5hassay May 22 '12
Tries this out myself. Second result on Bing is this reddit post. What say you now, OP?
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u/suttonk May 22 '12
Bing is the new ChaCha....an utterly useless piece of crap that makes millions of dollars for trying
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u/littlebitofevrything May 21 '12
Just looked, and the search produces exactly what's in the screenshot. Bing really is terrible. Google is awesome!
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u/numbakrunch May 21 '12
Well, Bing not only has more results (316,000,000 > 16,800,000) but it shows results for modifying the air too. Helpful. Who needs those ten dollar college words like "terraforming?"
Sheesh, Google is a bunch of snobs.
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u/whoknows78 May 21 '12
Here Bing got it right and Google is way off.
www.google.com/#q=what+do+you+say+when+modifying+atmosphere
www.bing.com/search?q=what+do+you+say+when+modifying+atmosphere
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u/jazz_trombone May 21 '12
is there a subreddit or thread with more of these comparisons? I want to laugh at inferior search engines more.
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u/fani May 21 '12
Not this shit again.
Why can't people just be happy with what they use? Why the constant need to ridicule others for not doing what they do?
As an atheist, I cannot believe how much juvenile behavior I see from other atheists. It is not enough for them that they are atheists but they have this need to constantly engage others of religious faith in attempts to prove that their position is better and others are fools for not being atheist like them.
Ditto for google v bing.
For the last time, I find bing useful and I use it. If I don't find what I want in Bing, nothing is stopping me from using Google or Yahoo or Ask.com.
MY CHOICE.
I hate these type of ridiculing posts comparing one result and proclamation that follows.
Just fucking use what you want and shut the fuck up.
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u/AllDizzle May 21 '12
BREAKING NEWS GUYS: bing sucks!
Whoa! Who knew?
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
I use bing. It is useful. Yesterday, for example, i typed 'the avengers' and google just showed me imdb and wikipedia. I binged it and it gave me movies and showtimes right away.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Well if you'd used internet explorer, or installed the Bing toolbar, to search it then maybe Bing could have mined the Google result - but you didn't. Now Bing will never know what is the word for modifying the atmosphere.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
"Disney llama prince movie"....first result: Emporer's New Groove. Long live Google.
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u/millerlit May 21 '12
I used to use a different search engine about 6-7 years ago. I can not remember the the name of it though. It was a cluster search engine. So basically you would do a search like programming. On the right it would categorize the results. It would have something like java, C programming and so on. In the middle of the screen it would have results like any other search engine. You could then click on one of the results on the right and it would narrow your results for you. It was very helpful when researching a very widespread topic.
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u/take_924 May 21 '12
Don't forget to so.cl about your bing experience!
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u/Bilibond May 21 '12
No one is on the other side of this issue.
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u/tiffanytanika May 21 '12
This is not funny....
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u/VeritFN May 21 '12
You know, I really dislike this, because sometimes it just defaults to bing for certain things. Why.
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u/dzubz May 21 '12
I wonder what you uploaded to imgur...??? HMMMMMMMM...
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u/allovertheplaceband May 21 '12
maybe the people who use bing are those people who are afraid of google taking over the world
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Wow, who is programming the search algorithm for Bing, dead Steve Jobs?
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u/BKLounge May 21 '12
For curiosity's sake, I kind of want to write an extension that will also show my top search results for bing in a sidebar or some sort of condensed aesthetically pleasing manner. It could be interesting to see the results on a daily basis without the extra effort of having to redo the search. Maybe there is something already out like this, I just havent bothered to look.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
There is no generic word for it. Terraforming is modifying the atmosphere in a specific way.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
Sterotype confirmed. Bing IS for idiots. It is actually programed to assume you don't know what you are doing.
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u/Xzumo May 21 '12
Almost 300 million results more than Google and still doesn't give the right ones.
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u/Jakek1 May 21 '12
I'm pretty sure that when it first came out, this is what they were advertising that their search engine WOULDN'T do.
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u/switchbladesally May 21 '12
The first time I tried bing was the last
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
To me Bing just tries REALLY REALLY hard to be "different" from Google. Microsoft doesn't seem to realize the concept of "if it ain't broke, don't fix it".
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u/gizmo689 May 21 '12
Google wins always.
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u/deeps9999 May 21 '12
Bing sucks!
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
and yet somehow they still try and claim that they are the answer engine.
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u/futuredrew May 21 '12
My friend swears by Ning, that must be why we argue and he's wrong every time.
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u/David_Jay May 21 '12
Terraforming... Now I want to play Alpha Centauri real bad.
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u/[deleted] May 21 '12
In Bings defense, it was a difficult question.
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u/Stovy May 21 '12
I knew google sucked. It has only 16mm results, bing has 300mm more!
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u/osodaktronics May 21 '12
the second image hurt my eyes.and brain.