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I decided to do a test and switched my in-browser search bar to Bing. So far, I haven't had any reason to object. I still get results which do what I want. A

I decided to do a test and switched my in-browser search bar to Bing. So far, I haven't had any reason to object. I still get results which do what I want. Also, I could swear that Bing Maps is actually faster than Google in terms of loading tiles, scrolling around, and all of that. Google Maps just sticks at times, for some reason. It's amazing to see it fall so far, considering that smooth-scrolling maps at Google is what brought me over from Mapquest years ago. I'd love to see someone continue the result comparisons with the brands filed off. It might surprise people.

lordgilman 15y ago
Someone did a blind test with Yahoo, Google and Bing two years ago. Here's one of the HN discussions over it. IIRC things got shut down a few days later because of trolls. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=646101 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=646101
- hyperrail 15y ago
  No, no, it's still up: http://blindsearch.fejus.com/ http://blindsearch.fejus.com/
jan_g 15y ago
>Also, I could swear that Bing Maps is actually faster than Google in terms of loading tiles, scrolling around, and all of that I have to say that bing maps is pretty unusable for me. Maybe it's different for USA, but here in parts of Europe that I'm interested in it's useless. Slow and more or less unzoomable, for example this is my town: http://i.imgur.com/pGaeB.png http://i.imgur.com/pGaeB.png EDIT: maybe it's a browser(javascript?) problem, I'm not sure