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These days Bing is increasingly my goto search engine, my switching costs are essentially zero
by jhoechtl 4y ago
These days Bing is increasingly my goto search engine, my switching costs are essentially zero
- lukas099 4y agoWhy not duckduckgo?
- julianlam 4y agoBecause hating on Micro$oft (ha! Remember that?) is a 2000s thing.
- ugjka 4y ago98% of time DDG fulfils my needs
- moffkalast 4y agoThat's just yahoo and bing search merged, with some graphics to tell you how much they love privacy every 2 seconds. It also has a stupid name.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago> That's just yahoo and bing search merged, Given that we're in a thread underneath someone endorsing Bing as a good option, that sounds like a plus. > with some graphics to tell you how much they love privacy every 2 seconds. That is their differentiator, yes. > It also has a stupid name. As... Opposed to Google or Bing? This is your argument?
- moffkalast 4y ago> Given that we're in a thread underneath someone endorsing Bing as a good option, that sounds like a plus. Yeah, but why not just cut out the middleman? > As... Opposed to Google or Bing? This is your argument? I'm half kidding, but seriously "duck duck go"? What kinda goofy ass name is that? No wonder nobody takes it seriously. The equivalent there would be GoGoBaby for Google or RingADingDing for Bing. I guess GoDaddy is a thing, but that doesn't make it any less weird.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago> Yeah, but why not just cut out the middleman? Because DDG acts as a privacy screen and doesn't tell Microsoft what I personally search for. They are, as you note, fairly pointed about this being their purpose. > I'm half kidding, but seriously "duck duck go"? What kinda goofy ass name is that? No wonder nobody takes it seriously. It's a play on a commonly-known phrase (duck duck goose), and while this is all subjective I don't see how it's any weirder than anything else in the space.
- olyjohn 4y agoPeople just gotta have excuses to love their favorite corp products. People should just own it, but they feel a little guilty so they have to find an excuse. It's like Firefox haters, they find one little bug or one negative thing happens, and "Welp, just might as well use Chrome." If Firefox isn't 100% absolutely perfect, then people say they're clearly just as bad as Google. They say DuckDuckGo is just Bing, and has a dumb name, so it's clearly no better than Google. The truth is that they fucking love Google's products, integration and ecosystem...
- PeterisP 4y agoIsn't duckduckgo web search pretty much bing with tiny tweaks?
- unstatusthequo 4y agoI finally got fed up and pay for Kagi. Very happy so far. Cents per day is worth it
- nmstoker 4y agoI'm pretty happy with them too. For me it's the boosting of sites i respect and the suppression of sites I dislike that swung it for me.
- DesiLurker 4y agoI looked it up. honestly $10/month is stupid level pricing for un-established product with free competitors. the pricing needs to be what can slip below average users pain threshold (IMO thats like $2.99/mo but whatever). there is a reason most techies have not heard of it yet.
- colinmhayes 4y agoI'm guessing that going from free to $0.01 is the biggest hurdle. Once people agree to pay they're willing to pay a decent amount.
- DesiLurker 4y agoactually .01 would not be a problem at all, remember initial pricing for whatsapp? the main issue here is its value is not yet established. They need to remember that they are competing with powerful search engines like google and bing so they must rise to the quality first. Starting with low price with even just the indication that we will charge you more later is good enough, but it is imperative that they show value first.
- beej71 4y agoBing won't index one of my online programming books (original content, no ads, no SEO, all ages, free) for unspecified TOS violations that I can't determine. Their algorithm is broken. It makes me wonder what other legitimate content they don't index.