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I've read this type of comment a few times on HN and always find it interesting. I've been using Bing for probably 10 years on desktop and Google on my phone (b
by Exmoor 6y ago
I've read this type of comment a few times on HN and always find it interesting. I've been using Bing for probably 10 years on desktop and Google on my phone (because Android). Generally I've found that I prefer the Bing results to the Google results more often than Bing. I've honestly had the opposite experience (frustrated with Google results, so I switch to Bing) so I wonder how much of it is based on subconscious assumptions about which we assume is better?
I'm sure there's some site the obfuscates results and could probably answer the question a little more scientifically.
- fastball 6y agoI can't speak for anyone else, but I don't think it's subconscious bias in my case of preferring Google to all others. My process: think of something I want to find, think of all the keywords I can, type them into the search engine. Google helps me find what I'm looking for faster than Bing or DDG.
- lanstin 6y agoI think given a given search algorithm there is an art to searching effectively with that algorithm. For example for a long time you’d search based on the words you expect in an answer to the question. As Google got more into the “reading the search query as a question” mode you had to shift a bit to framing the query with words from a question that would typically be asked to get the search results. I suspect some of the friction between switching search providers is that we unconsciously get tuned to what terms to use to get the answers we want.