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I had to use Bing in China ; the things are search for are not censored, but it works as well as Altavista does begin 2000; 10 pages of spam and then maybe stac
by tluyben2 5y ago
I had to use Bing in China ; the things are search for are not censored, but it works as well as Altavista does begin 2000; 10 pages of spam and then maybe stack overflow. I downloaded actual manuals like in the 80s to cope. I created [0] just to be able to find things faster locally when in China (last time was December 2019 though).
It is shocking how competitors are that bad really.
[0] https://git2pdf.com/ https://git2pdf.com/
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoI used bing while in China as well, it worked ok for what I needed. Much better than baidu where every image search for any innocuous term tended to bring up a bunch of porn.
- tluyben2 5y agoYeah, baidu was even worse. I asked my Chinese tech colleagues how the hell they got anything done at all with baidu and they said they just read manuals and don’t search. This was hardware and embedded, so cannot speak for other disciplines. And yes, I recognise your name from previous posts; you spent quite a lot of time in China right? I was in Suzhou for about 4 years. And after that HK for 2.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoI spent 9 years in Beijing. The irony being that I would use google at work (Microsoft) and Bing at home.