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Here in Blighty, with a lot of companies still muddling on with the barest handle on web marketing, I've found Bing much more useful than Google for finding com

Here in Blighty, with a lot of companies still muddling on with the barest handle on web marketing, I've found Bing much more useful than Google for finding companies supplying materials or goods that aren't exactly 'exciting'. A lot of small - medium-sized industry output, for example. Just this last year I've added Bing to my [hardcoded] homepage and found two 'things' that I've been hard-pushed for literally years to find a non-American/German supplier for. It's fashionable and fun to bash Microsoft, but I can't say I'm much-amused by the utter stranglehold Google has on my internet usage otherwise (my fault, I know). Let's give Bing a chance.

googlryas 9y ago
Can you give an example of what you're talking about? Or what those two things are?
- detritus 9y ago
  One was steel blades for die-cutting. I'd been on/off looking for a LONG time, with not much from Google, my primary search engine. Thought "Why not?" so tried Bing, and 'like a violin', a couple of relevant entries popped up. Now, full-disclosure - Google had for years offered me options for companies on the continent and across the pond, but given mine was an explanatory investigation, I wanted a local company so that I could pick their brains over the phone and order the bare minimum I needed to get me on my feet. This was about a year ago, so it may well be now that Google has the sites I found indexed too. - ed ...also, Google could previously find mass-industrial options here in Britain, but they were not the sort of companies I could order at my groping-in-the-dark scale from.
- fnordian_slip 9y ago
  At the risk of being off-topic: ""Blighty" is a British English slang term for Britain or often specifically England" Just because that might be a thing that other non-native speakers are unfamiliar with (I always thought of my English as pretty decent, and never heard of it). Also I second the request for further information. @topic: I find it hard to believe that Bing actually amounts to much in terms of organic searches, but that might be my filter bubble speaking. I have recently been trying to use more different search engines, but the habit of just googling everything is hard to break. Other than the obvious candidates, can anyone recommend any search engines we are missing because google is so dominant? Someone recently recommended https://millionshort.com/ https://millionshort.com/ to me, but I haven't used it enough to have an opinion on.
smichel17 9y ago
I'd just like to point out that "I don't like Google's monopoly on my internet usage" doesn't directly translate to "Let's give Bing a chance." Other search engines exist.
- detritus 9y ago
  No shit?

googlryas 9y ago

Can you give an example of what you're talking about? Or what those two things are?

detritus 9y ago
One was steel blades for die-cutting. I'd been on/off looking for a LONG time, with not much from Google, my primary search engine. Thought "Why not?" so tried Bing, and 'like a violin', a couple of relevant entries popped up. Now, full-disclosure - Google had for years offered me options for companies on the continent and across the pond, but given mine was an explanatory investigation, I wanted a local company so that I could pick their brains over the phone and order the bare minimum I needed to get me on my feet. This was about a year ago, so it may well be now that Google has the sites I found indexed too. - ed ...also, Google could previously find mass-industrial options here in Britain, but they were not the sort of companies I could order at my groping-in-the-dark scale from.
fnordian_slip 9y ago
At the risk of being off-topic: ""Blighty" is a British English slang term for Britain or often specifically England" Just because that might be a thing that other non-native speakers are unfamiliar with (I always thought of my English as pretty decent, and never heard of it). Also I second the request for further information. @topic: I find it hard to believe that Bing actually amounts to much in terms of organic searches, but that might be my filter bubble speaking. I have recently been trying to use more different search engines, but the habit of just googling everything is hard to break. Other than the obvious candidates, can anyone recommend any search engines we are missing because google is so dominant? Someone recently recommended https://millionshort.com/ https://millionshort.com/ to me, but I haven't used it enough to have an opinion on.

smichel17 9y ago

I'd just like to point out that "I don't like Google's monopoly on my internet usage" doesn't directly translate to "Let's give Bing a chance." Other search engines exist.

detritus 9y ago
No shit?