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0 pointsrosybox6y ago0 comments

I use Bing regularly, I made it my default search engine just for kicks about 2 months ago just to see how terrible it was and for the most part I can't even tell the difference. Sometimes I can't find what I want and then I search Google and it can't find it either. I can think of exactly two times in the last two months when Google found something Bing couldn't. One was when I searched for Hearthstone cardback browser and Bing couldn't find the link to it, but Google did, but it was like halfway down the page. I actually prefer not giving Google any more info about me and still getting decent search results.

Honestly the worst part about Bing is coworkers seeing I use it. It's kind of embarrasing, but it's stupid that it is because it's actually a good search engine.

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lucb1e6y ago

> the worst part about Bing is coworkers seeing I use it.

I use Bing Images (because I don't like DuckDuckGo's image search) and link people there sometimes, and I used to have a Bing-branded wallpaper just to call attention to that there is a choice. Didn't even work, nobody around me finds that weird, many already use DDG or chose to remain with Google.

Bing seems to have switched away from branding a Bing logo onto their wallpapers, though, so that's no longer a thing.

wolco6y ago

The truth about this experiment is you don't know what you are missing on both ends because you only attempt to find the missing item.

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