News - Have you tried Microsoft’s Bing It On blind search comparison?

[petercook7]

its the crap i have too look at on the msn website that i hate.

[bradyjames]

its the crap i have too look at on the msn website that i hate.

Tha'ts a good point. The Google search page is just so clean and nice. I also find Google is super fast too. I also like the dynamic search results that Google shows as you are typing and the Google search prediction seems to be better too. Of course you don't see any of this in the 'side by side' comparison that Microsoft has setup.

[bbo320]

Bing kept bugging me to install it so much that I downloaded Google Chrome and installed it. Now I can run Chrome browser and just search without all that interference.

[3930k]

4 bings one google. I did mess up once and I didn't draw when I should've.

[technodean]

Bing 3, google 2, I prefer Bings endless image searches.

[dokdek]

4 bings and 1 draw, I'm actually very surprised, I liked the layout of the Bing results much more than what Google gave me, I might try Bing for a little bit, as I've never actually given it a chance.

[howdee]

How exactly is 57.4 per cent "almost 2 to 1" (66.66~ per cent) when it is in fact a lot closer to 4 to 3 (~57.14 per cent) if they really like round numbers that much?? They really think people that can't do basic maths care a lot about what search results are pushed their narrow ways first? Frankly, I'm not too happy with either of the two search engines mentioned, but Google gives me more tools to narrow results closer to what I was looking for in most cases. I do use both, though. And a few others, and want more. I check Google Labs frequently for new stuff they work on, Wolfram Alpha is a nice tool for unit conversion and general information needs, Ask offers better results when searching with spoken language expressions, and then there's specialized search engines and directories for times when all those I mentioned before seem riddled with useless paid-for results that rarely have much in common with my queries. Wiki should also be mentioned, although I'm not sure in which category to put it. I mostly just scroll through their pages all the way down to external references, which is quite useful, but I must say I depend on its accuracy a lot less than I used to. Anyway, I didn't test this blind comparison tool, with all said before I'm afraid I'd find its results rather useless whichever way they'd turn up to be. Fruitful searching to all!

[Agent]

Tested it with the name of my Eve Online Corp.

Google: First result
Bing: Couldn't even find it because it had included a similar sounding word, trying to be smart.

Given that all the search engine had to do was to add .com to the word I gave it, I don't hold much hope of switching to Bing.