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I know nobody who uses Bing to be honest. Am I wrong in thinking this?

by dasanman 8y ago

Kagerjay 8y ago
I use bing all the time for TV shows, its way better than google in this regard
bovermyer 8y ago
Anecdotal, but I alternate between Bing and Google, with a general preference for Google.
- usermac 8y ago
  I've gotten two free meals using Bing rewards.
  - bovermyer 8y ago
    That's... impressive. I didn't realize the rewards were actually substantial.
ghrifter 8y ago
I use Bing and prefer it to Google tbh I did it as "hm just try it out" to use it every day. I get better SO snippets or MSDN API/articles when I search for C# or .NET related questions Or maybe thats just my bias, idk.
cbHXBY1D 8y ago
DuckDuckGo, Alexa, and Cortana use it. It gets about 21% of the search market.
foepys 8y ago
Windows 10 is using it in the start menu. Every time somebody types something into it, Bing gets a request for autocomplete.
rb808 8y ago
I use bing all the time. The results are good enough and I get points for amazon vouchers. "image searches" ahem work great too.
- Saoshyant 8y ago
  Ah, yes, I too use Bing to search for images of a specific nature with some frequency. It's quite likely the best search engine available for the... higher arts. I do not know if they have done it on purpose, but kudos to the Bing team either way.
trumped 8y ago
If you know anyone that use https://duckduckgo.com/ https://duckduckgo.com/ or https://www.searx.me/ https://www.searx.me/, then you know some people who use Bing (at least indirectly). Also, some people use Bing (directly) to find porn, apparently...
Mountain_Skies 8y ago
I use duckduckgo which is bing with a skin and added features. One of those features is "bang commands" which allows you to use a single site to search thousands of other sites individually. If I want to check if my local Home Depot has the particular deck screws I need, adding !homedepot to my duckduckgo query redirects me to Home Depot's search results page. This is very useful as web sites become heavier and heavier which results in a terrible experience just getting to a search box. Ditto Amazon and most other ecommerce sites. Plus it is nice if I don't get the results I am looking for on duckduckgo to just add !g to the query and get redirected to Google's results.

I know nobody who uses Bing to be honest. Am I wrong in thinking this?

Kagerjay 8y ago

I use bing all the time for TV shows, its way better than google in this regard

bovermyer 8y ago

Anecdotal, but I alternate between Bing and Google, with a general preference for Google.

usermac 8y ago
I've gotten two free meals using Bing rewards.
- bovermyer 8y ago
  That's... impressive. I didn't realize the rewards were actually substantial.

ghrifter 8y ago

I use Bing and prefer it to Google tbh I did it as "hm just try it out" to use it every day. I get better SO snippets or MSDN API/articles when I search for C# or .NET related questions Or maybe thats just my bias, idk.

cbHXBY1D 8y ago

DuckDuckGo, Alexa, and Cortana use it. It gets about 21% of the search market.

foepys 8y ago

Windows 10 is using it in the start menu. Every time somebody types something into it, Bing gets a request for autocomplete.

rb808 8y ago

I use bing all the time. The results are good enough and I get points for amazon vouchers. "image searches" ahem work great too.

Saoshyant 8y ago
Ah, yes, I too use Bing to search for images of a specific nature with some frequency. It's quite likely the best search engine available for the... higher arts. I do not know if they have done it on purpose, but kudos to the Bing team either way.

trumped 8y ago

If you know anyone that use https://duckduckgo.com/ https://duckduckgo.com/ or https://www.searx.me/ https://www.searx.me/, then you know some people who use Bing (at least indirectly). Also, some people use Bing (directly) to find porn, apparently...

Mountain_Skies 8y ago

I use duckduckgo which is bing with a skin and added features. One of those features is "bang commands" which allows you to use a single site to search thousands of other sites individually. If I want to check if my local Home Depot has the particular deck screws I need, adding !homedepot to my duckduckgo query redirects me to Home Depot's search results page. This is very useful as web sites become heavier and heavier which results in a terrible experience just getting to a search box. Ditto Amazon and most other ecommerce sites. Plus it is nice if I don't get the results I am looking for on duckduckgo to just add !g to the query and get redirected to Google's results.