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> Yeah, all of these are quite DDG-friendly searches... This is exactly correct. Excluding poor local search results (which is understandable bc of the privac

> Yeah, all of these are quite DDG-friendly searches... This is exactly correct. Excluding poor local search results (which is understandable bc of the privacy aspect), Bing/DDG has trouble with long tale search query relevance (5+ word queries), and also finding results from small or obscure sites. The later is simply because Bing's organic index is not as large as Googles. Bing/DDG's organic results are still very good, but they are not as good as Google's in the above specific circumstances.

efournie 6y ago
Compared to Google, Bing has a huge problem with paid search results, at least in some non english languages. My mother wanted to access Amazon last week and typed "my amazon account" in french in the windows search, which searched for those terms in Bing. One of the first (paid) results was a scam site triggering alarm sound, fake virus notifications and asking her to call a scam hotline. At least DDG filters out the ads but the problem in this case is Bing's OS integration.
Semaphor 6y ago
> Bing/DDG has trouble with long tale search query relevance The last time I did a comparison, Bing did better (I don’t know what DDG does with the Bing results exactly, everyone says they just show Bing results, but no one knows and it simply doesn’t mesh with my experience). Because Bing does not randomly filter out half my terms while DDG does even for "-forced terms. This is my #1 problem with DDG and I complain about it in pretty much every DDG thread (while otherwise loving DDG). For few result searches, DDG shows you essentially random stuff even if they have the result I want (which can be tested by searching for an exact sentence from the result page). On the other hand doing the search on Bing gives me the result without neutering my query.

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> Yeah, all of these are quite DDG-friendly searches... This is exactly correct. Excluding poor local search results (which is understandable bc of the privac

by chris_f 6y ago

efournie 6y ago
Compared to Google, Bing has a huge problem with paid search results, at least in some non english languages. My mother wanted to access Amazon last week and typed "my amazon account" in french in the windows search, which searched for those terms in Bing. One of the first (paid) results was a scam site triggering alarm sound, fake virus notifications and asking her to call a scam hotline. At least DDG filters out the ads but the problem in this case is Bing's OS integration.
Semaphor 6y ago
> Bing/DDG has trouble with long tale search query relevance The last time I did a comparison, Bing did better (I don’t know what DDG does with the Bing results exactly, everyone says they just show Bing results, but no one knows and it simply doesn’t mesh with my experience). Because Bing does not randomly filter out half my terms while DDG does even for "-forced terms. This is my #1 problem with DDG and I complain about it in pretty much every DDG thread (while otherwise loving DDG). For few result searches, DDG shows you essentially random stuff even if they have the result I want (which can be tested by searching for an exact sentence from the result page). On the other hand doing the search on Bing gives me the result without neutering my query.