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I tried taking the Bing challenge several months ago. I couldn't even make it for a week before going back to Google. Maybe it's time to try Bing again, but I'm

by jeromec 16y ago

I tried taking the Bing challenge several months ago. I couldn't even make it for a week before going back to Google. Maybe it's time to try Bing again, but I'm really skeptical.

johnfn 16y ago
Are you sure anti-Microsoft bias wasn't seeping in somewhere? (It used to be pretty easy, but it's getting harder with every new Google news article...) My roommate and I both tried it and didn't really get tripped up (and that was a while ago)
- jeromec 16y ago
  No, I'm fully aware that everyone benefits if there are alternatives to a search monopoly. I was strictly evaluating the results. It may be that my searches are pretty demanding of a search engine, because they're not typically consumer oriented searches, but rather more obscure research and/or startup related. However, I do think I use a search engine fairly normally as well. For example, I remember in particular one search, I think it was the last one I did before giving up on Bing, President Obama was making a rally speech in support of Martha Coakley (who was famously defeated by Scott Brown) and he made reference to a certain buzz about a truck Scott Brown was supposed to be driving. I didn't know what the reference was to but Bing performed dismally. After several clicks and getting nowhere I Googled "Scott Brown truck" and Google almost missed it (it was a new topic at the time) but Google did have the ad in question near the bottom of page one, and led me to a page with a video of the ad.
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jsdalton 16y ago
Same. I lasted a few weeks, and would occasionally go back to Google when I wasn't satisfied with how a search turned out. A few times I wanted to switch back to Google, but I couldn't justify it rationally to myself. Around that time I bought a new laptop and used it to work away from home for a few days. I hadn't bothered to switch my default search engine away from Google. At some point, it dawned on me how happy I was to be back. When I got home I promptly ended my experiment and have been back on Google ever since. I will say that I didn't hate Bing or anything. If for some reason I was forced to use Bing instead of Google for now and ever after I'd probably be slightly bummed, but not much more than that.

by jeromec 16y ago

I tried taking the Bing challenge several months ago. I couldn't even make it for a week before going back to Google. Maybe it's time to try Bing again, but I'm really skeptical.

johnfn 16y ago

Are you sure anti-Microsoft bias wasn't seeping in somewhere? (It used to be pretty easy, but it's getting harder with every new Google news article...) My roommate and I both tried it and didn't really get tripped up (and that was a while ago)

jeromec 16y ago
No, I'm fully aware that everyone benefits if there are alternatives to a search monopoly. I was strictly evaluating the results. It may be that my searches are pretty demanding of a search engine, because they're not typically consumer oriented searches, but rather more obscure research and/or startup related. However, I do think I use a search engine fairly normally as well. For example, I remember in particular one search, I think it was the last one I did before giving up on Bing, President Obama was making a rally speech in support of Martha Coakley (who was famously defeated by Scott Brown) and he made reference to a certain buzz about a truck Scott Brown was supposed to be driving. I didn't know what the reference was to but Bing performed dismally. After several clicks and getting nowhere I Googled "Scott Brown truck" and Google almost missed it (it was a new topic at the time) but Google did have the ad in question near the bottom of page one, and led me to a page with a video of the ad.
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jsdalton 16y ago

Same. I lasted a few weeks, and would occasionally go back to Google when I wasn't satisfied with how a search turned out. A few times I wanted to switch back to Google, but I couldn't justify it rationally to myself. Around that time I bought a new laptop and used it to work away from home for a few days. I hadn't bothered to switch my default search engine away from Google. At some point, it dawned on me how happy I was to be back. When I got home I promptly ended my experiment and have been back on Google ever since. I will say that I didn't hate Bing or anything. If for some reason I was forced to use Bing instead of Google for now and ever after I'd probably be slightly bummed, but not much more than that.