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That's wrong on two points: - Microsoft is still the bad boy it has always been, it still owns unfairly 95% of pcs worldwide. There is no reason to be forgivin
by gbog 11y ago
That's wrong on two points:
- Microsoft is still the bad boy it has always been, it still owns unfairly 95% of pcs worldwide. There is no reason to be forgiving with this behemoth.
- Bing being profitable or not is completely irrelevant to us end users. What is important is that Bing results are poor to very poor compared to Google's. I know it well because I'm often forced to use it. I wouldn't touch Windows 10 with a pole, but hearing it's poor users are forced to Bing shows clearly enough that Microsoft didn't learn the lesson and is still considering their user as a flock of sheep.
- FlyingLawnmower 11y agoPersonally, I don't find bing results "very poor". It does the job for well over 90% of my searches, and on the remaining 10%, Google doesn't do a much better job very often. I like the UI, I like the rewards system, and the video/image search is actually better than Google for me. Just throwing out an alternative datapoint.
- riffraff 11y agoAFAIR in blind tests people found bing results on par with Google. Empirically, I think for the English web it works OK, but for non-english it sucks compared to google.