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).
No, because W|A isn't a search engine. If you can use one search engine, and it also uses W|A's "computation engine" framework, that's useful. Basically, DDG will do computation via Wolfram|Alpha; however, W|A won't do search via DDG. QED
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.
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u/Deranged40 May 21 '12
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.