News - Google accounts for almost 60 per cent of searches

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Search-giant rules US market , but competitors are gaining fast.

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[joel_spencer]

I tend to use google myself (have done for years) but everytime I reinstall windows on a machine it defaults to bing so I give it a quick try and it's always worse than google at finding what I'm after. Doesn't matter if your marketing is great if your product fails to live up, this only works if your competitors are unknown but this is clearly not the case with google.

[miniyazz]

Surely with search engines using different.. engines.. you have to adjust your search terms slightly to get the most out of each? So you might need to train yourself to use a new one effectively?

[joel_spencer]

Could be, but it doesn't get much more simple than typing the name of the site I'm looking for and bing fails often at this task. Maybe if I searched for what the site was about it might work but that's a waste of my time. Do they provide a tutorial on how it works?

[miniyazz]

Not as far as I'm aware - and IMO it really should pick up the name of the site.