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I switched out to DDG as well today. See how it goes. Any takers for trying out Bing?

by joshbaskin 7y ago

Zebfross 7y ago
I’ve been using Bing for years with no regrets, but I live in the U.S. (and speak English) where I hear it is best.
- dx034 7y ago
  Yeah, it really has problems if you tend to search in different languages or look for regional content outside of the US.
rahidz 7y ago
I've switched to Bing for images (more filters and less safe-search) and recipes (so many options!) , but for general search I find their index to be smaller and their results less relevant than Google's.
Klonoar 7y ago
IIRC, if you're using DDG, you're essentially using Bing (base) + other custom engine work layered on top of it.
- mattmanser 7y ago
  You don't remember correctly, this is a persistent falsehood I see repeated in all these sort of threads. https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/du...
  - pb7 7y ago
    https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so... “ In fact, DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo) and Bing.” It is not false. The standard 10 links you see come directly from Bing and they don’t even attempt to hide that fact.
    - Klonoar 7y ago
      Thanks for digging that up. :)
    - dx034 7y ago
      I've seen logs of a few medium sized sites and I've never seen DuckDuckBot really crawling any of these sites. I'm sure they use their own results to supplement some parts but most of the web results still seem to come from Bing.
gpanders 7y ago
Is Bing any better (as far as user privacy and tracking) than Google? Genuine question. Bing is still owned by MS right?
nottorp 7y ago
I used Bing maps once, because, guess, Google thought they know better than me what I want. Namely, I was planning a summer trip that included a mountain road that is closed 9 months per year due to snow. And I was doing that in spring. Google didn't let me use that road because, right, it was closed. And people shouldn't be allowed to plan their trips 3 months in advance. Bing gave me the same results without the nonsense.

I switched out to DDG as well today. See how it goes. Any takers for trying out Bing?

Zebfross 7y ago

I’ve been using Bing for years with no regrets, but I live in the U.S. (and speak English) where I hear it is best.

dx034 7y ago
Yeah, it really has problems if you tend to search in different languages or look for regional content outside of the US.

rahidz 7y ago

I've switched to Bing for images (more filters and less safe-search) and recipes (so many options!) , but for general search I find their index to be smaller and their results less relevant than Google's.

Klonoar 7y ago

IIRC, if you're using DDG, you're essentially using Bing (base) + other custom engine work layered on top of it.

mattmanser 7y ago
You don't remember correctly, this is a persistent falsehood I see repeated in all these sort of threads. https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduckbot/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/du...
- pb7 7y ago
  https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sources/ https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/so... “ In fact, DuckDuckGo gets its results from over four hundred sources. These include hundreds of vertical sources delivering niche Instant Answers, DuckDuckBot (our crawler) and crowd-sourced sites (like Wikipedia, stored in our answer indexes). We also of course have more traditional links in the search results, which we also source from a variety of partners, including Verizon Media (formerly Yahoo) and Bing.” It is not false. The standard 10 links you see come directly from Bing and they don’t even attempt to hide that fact.
  - Klonoar 7y ago
    Thanks for digging that up. :)
  - dx034 7y ago
    I've seen logs of a few medium sized sites and I've never seen DuckDuckBot really crawling any of these sites. I'm sure they use their own results to supplement some parts but most of the web results still seem to come from Bing.

gpanders 7y ago

Is Bing any better (as far as user privacy and tracking) than Google? Genuine question. Bing is still owned by MS right?

nottorp 7y ago

I used Bing maps once, because, guess, Google thought they know better than me what I want. Namely, I was planning a summer trip that included a mountain road that is closed 9 months per year due to snow. And I was doing that in spring. Google didn't let me use that road because, right, it was closed. And people shouldn't be allowed to plan their trips 3 months in advance. Bing gave me the same results without the nonsense.