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Revenue aside, it's not clear as well, as a user, why I would want to use bing. Whenever I use Edge, I end up wondering why Google is broken and does not find

Revenue aside, it's not clear as well, as a user, why I would want to use bing. Whenever I use Edge, I end up wondering why Google is broken and does not find what I'm looking for - It's because I'm actually using bing! (I'm in the eu where Google holds a near monopolistic market share, so maybe ms has little incentive to improve bing for eu users)

nix23 5y ago
>why I would want to use bing. To search for google (which is probably the most used keyword in bing) However Ecosia is kind of a good thing (based on bing) https://www.ecosia.org https://www.ecosia.org
- rhax 5y ago
  I've been using Ecosia for over a year now. Took about a week to get used to but I'm getting good results and if they actually do what they promise I'm doing something good for the world :)
  - monetus 5y ago
    I'm having trouble finding it on their website but I watched a regenerative agricultural guy two days ago say ecosia was giving out grants to people like himself. He had a permanent polyculture of mostly food, not trees, but it was neat.
- Agingcoder 5y ago
  I didn't know about this - thanks!
Amezarak 5y ago
I think a lot of this is personalization-related, too. I primarily use Bing for the rewards points. If I can't find it on Bing, only very seldom do I find it on Google. But I've noticed on my work computer where I rarely use the browser, results are absolutely atrocious. But that's true for both. But beyond that, I think search engine quality for anything but the top 100 websites has declined dramatically over the past ten years. Google has straight up delisted websites I used to visit that still exist, seemingly simply based on age.
pibechorro 5y ago
Google does sooo much filtering of search results I can no longer use them. They actively supress information which they deem politically controversial. I have been using duckduckgo for a few years now and I really appreciate getting a raw search result where I do the content filtering.. not to mention my privacy is more protected there. On the very rare case I don't find what I want there, adding the "bang" !g to my search will route me to google, so its no pain to dig there if needed.
- mustava 5y ago
  This x1000
- peakaboo 5y ago
  I also use Duckduckgo as a default and only have to use Google maybe once per week, and then I use the !g shortcut from Duckduckgo.
  - bg24 5y ago
    "I use the !g shortcut from Duckduckgo" This works so neatly!! Going to try duckduckgo for the next month.
    - cyberbanjo 5y ago
      There are thousands, ddg is a metasearch engine.
- CTOSian 5y ago
  as an alternative: https://metager.de/ https://metager.de/
sekh60 5y ago
I'll come out and say it. Bing is the best porn search engine out there.
- atatatat 5y ago
  Porn/offensive materials are always the best test of a service provider.
ToFab123 5y ago
The trick to Bing is (on bing.com) to change your regional settings to the US. (Bing.com > burger menu > settings > Country/Region > United States (English)) This small change will greatly improve the quality of the search results.

nix23 5y ago

>why I would want to use bing. To search for google (which is probably the most used keyword in bing) However Ecosia is kind of a good thing (based on bing) https://www.ecosia.org https://www.ecosia.org

rhax 5y ago
I've been using Ecosia for over a year now. Took about a week to get used to but I'm getting good results and if they actually do what they promise I'm doing something good for the world :)
- monetus 5y ago
  I'm having trouble finding it on their website but I watched a regenerative agricultural guy two days ago say ecosia was giving out grants to people like himself. He had a permanent polyculture of mostly food, not trees, but it was neat.
Agingcoder 5y ago
I didn't know about this - thanks!

Amezarak 5y ago

I think a lot of this is personalization-related, too. I primarily use Bing for the rewards points. If I can't find it on Bing, only very seldom do I find it on Google. But I've noticed on my work computer where I rarely use the browser, results are absolutely atrocious. But that's true for both. But beyond that, I think search engine quality for anything but the top 100 websites has declined dramatically over the past ten years. Google has straight up delisted websites I used to visit that still exist, seemingly simply based on age.

pibechorro 5y ago

Google does sooo much filtering of search results I can no longer use them. They actively supress information which they deem politically controversial. I have been using duckduckgo for a few years now and I really appreciate getting a raw search result where I do the content filtering.. not to mention my privacy is more protected there. On the very rare case I don't find what I want there, adding the "bang" !g to my search will route me to google, so its no pain to dig there if needed.

mustava 5y ago
This x1000
peakaboo 5y ago
I also use Duckduckgo as a default and only have to use Google maybe once per week, and then I use the !g shortcut from Duckduckgo.
- bg24 5y ago
  "I use the !g shortcut from Duckduckgo" This works so neatly!! Going to try duckduckgo for the next month.
  - cyberbanjo 5y ago
    There are thousands, ddg is a metasearch engine.
CTOSian 5y ago
as an alternative: https://metager.de/ https://metager.de/

sekh60 5y ago

I'll come out and say it. Bing is the best porn search engine out there.

atatatat 5y ago
Porn/offensive materials are always the best test of a service provider.

ToFab123 5y ago

The trick to Bing is (on bing.com) to change your regional settings to the US. (Bing.com > burger menu > settings > Country/Region > United States (English)) This small change will greatly improve the quality of the search results.