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Google search is absolutely terrible. There's just no alternative, so there's no reasonable benchmark (until ChatGPT)

chubot 2y ago
Bing is an alternative to Google Search, that took billions of dollars to build I used it, it's OK, not really any better overall. Slightly worse in some areas and slightly better in others The problem seems to be that the incentives set up by Google flooded the web with low quality information Also, some people probably LIKE some of the low quality information ... but I still think there was a fair amount of mismanagement
- elevatedastalt 2y ago
  Bing was unironically fantastic at searching for adult content but they hobbled that through the years.
  - Hnrobert42 2y ago
    Yandex
  - eastbound 2y ago
    The memes were excellent promotion for Bing being the place where you find uncensored results. “Split-face” would immediately return the horrible accident (don’t Google it, really - and yes, pun intended), “Scientists” would actually return non-editorialized scientists… Microsoft could have been farther and marketed Google as the colourful kindergarten that you give your children access to, whereas journalists and researchers would use Bing. But they folded.
- pjmlp 2y ago
  To this day Bing fails to find Microsoft Learn content, their own stuff!
- mrweasel 2y ago
  I use Bing everyday, via Ecosia. It's is amazing how far Bing has come. Overall I'd say that Bing is the better search engine today. The only consistent fail for me is when I forget the address of "The True Size Of" website (www.thetruesize.com), Bing refuses to find that URL, while it's the first result on Google. Other than that, Bing will find anything that Google does.
righthand 2y ago
This is not remotely true, there are plenty of search engine options. There are just not any that are dogmatically infused into society. Stop saying “google it” and it won’t be so socially ingrained that laymen only use Google. Stop letting them monopolize mind share.

Bing is an alternative to Google Search, that took billions of dollars to build I used it, it's OK, not really any better overall. Slightly worse in some areas and slightly better in others The problem seems to be that the incentives set up by Google flooded the web with low quality information Also, some people probably LIKE some of the low quality information ... but I still think there was a fair amount of mismanagement

elevatedastalt 2y ago
Bing was unironically fantastic at searching for adult content but they hobbled that through the years.
- Hnrobert42 2y ago
  Yandex
- eastbound 2y ago
  The memes were excellent promotion for Bing being the place where you find uncensored results. “Split-face” would immediately return the horrible accident (don’t Google it, really - and yes, pun intended), “Scientists” would actually return non-editorialized scientists… Microsoft could have been farther and marketed Google as the colourful kindergarten that you give your children access to, whereas journalists and researchers would use Bing. But they folded.
pjmlp 2y ago
To this day Bing fails to find Microsoft Learn content, their own stuff!
mrweasel 2y ago
I use Bing everyday, via Ecosia. It's is amazing how far Bing has come. Overall I'd say that Bing is the better search engine today. The only consistent fail for me is when I forget the address of "The True Size Of" website (www.thetruesize.com), Bing refuses to find that URL, while it's the first result on Google. Other than that, Bing will find anything that Google does.

righthand 2y ago

This is not remotely true, there are plenty of search engine options. There are just not any that are dogmatically infused into society. Stop saying “google it” and it won’t be so socially ingrained that laymen only use Google. Stop letting them monopolize mind share.