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Bing offers a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand, its search relevancy is actually really great, its special search features (weather, elections, etc.) and graph
by nxc18 10y ago
Bing offers a bit of a dilemma. On the one hand, its search relevancy is actually really great, its special search features (weather, elections, etc.) and graph tools are generally better than Google's and they overall just seem to try harder on search nowadays.
On the other hand, search isn't the only important thing - presumably that is why Google doesn't seem to focus there. Bing has seemingly given up on some of the big things, like Maps, and failed to promote others (like Translator) in ways that really compromise the core offering.
Bing Maps used to have a very legitimate edge over Google; then they stood still for years and I'm not sure they could ever catch up.
To make matters worse, Bing has lost lots of cool, useful features; features that I could show someone and then expect them to legitimately consider Bing. For example, searching for a song used to let you immediately read the lyrics without ads, listen to the song through Zune or buy the song through various providers. Wolfram Alpha used to be directly integrated into the search engine; it was extremely powerful and convenient.
I really would have liked to see a Bing that didn't take as many steps back as it took forward; that Bing could be a real contender.
- ethana 10y agoOne of my favorite things on Bing: https://www.bing.com/search?q=speed+test https://www.bing.com/search?q=speed+test
- aub3bhat 10y agohttps://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=speed+test https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&e...
- blauditore 10y agoShould it do something special? It doesn't seem to be the case for me, I see nothing unexpected.
- desdiv 10y agoBing: http://i.imgur.com/ChfIVts.png http://i.imgur.com/ChfIVts.png Google: http://imgur.com/47UUNBc.png http://imgur.com/47UUNBc.png
- breakingcups 10y agoHmm, that doesn't seem to work here (The Netherlands). Maybe that's US only?
- laurent123456 10y agoWorks in the UK too. Maybe if you search for "speed test" in Dutch?
- petra 10y agoOOKLA isn't that reliable for speed testing, they let companies who pay mess with the results, some ISPs who sense your going to ookla give you better bandwidth, etc. look at the link : :https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/42zh66/what_is_the_best_speed_testing_site/ https://www.reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking/comments/42zh66/what... Search for ookla, or just read the thing for speedtest recommendations. Recommendations: http://speedof.me http://speedof.me google supported tool: http://www.measurementlab.net/tools/ndt http://www.measurementlab.net/tools/ndt , http://www.measurementlab.net/tests http://www.measurementlab.net/tests - various types of tests
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- madshiva 10y agoit's not working then... not very useful (for me)
- lucideer 10y ago> Bing has seemingly given up on some of the big things, like Maps As far as I'm aware Bing (along with Facebook and Yahoo!) are backing https://wego.here.com/ https://wego.here.com/ these days. I'm curious to see where that goes...
- marssaxman 10y agoI switched from Google maps to Bing maps a little over a year ago - their edge over Google is that their mapping system still works like a mapping system, and therefore does useful things, instead of whatever the hell it is that Google maps has been trying to do lately. I really hope Bing never catches up, because it's better the way it is.
- kahnpro 10y agoI don't know about you but I have been incredibly frustrated with Google Maps in recent years. They aren't standing still, but they certainly aren't moving forward.