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My literal first thought was "do I seriously need to use bing now?".

Supermancho 5mo ago
Bing has been better than Google for some time. Again, it's embarrassing for them to sacrifice marketshare for paid results and an intermediate-form AI fad that will turn into the same paid result funnel.
- RyanOD 5mo ago
  I hear people cite other search engines as "better" all the time. Better how?
  - edelbitter 5mo ago
    e.g. for a two keyword search, Google & DDG return results containing a similar (but more at the moment, more popular, so I understand why they do this) keyword as the first one, and no relation whatsoever with the second. Any search that manages to actually show results related to both of my input terms get the "better" award from me.
- mrweasel 5mo ago
  Bing is surprisingly not to bad. I don't use it anymore, but it's been providing better results than Google for sometime.
sphars 5mo ago
There is a 99% chance (IMO) that Microsoft is going to go the same route as Google here
- vitorsr 5mo ago
  Microsoft has already gone down this road some three years ago... https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-search-with-a-new-ai-powered-microsoft-bing-and-edge-your-copilot-for-the-web/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-sear...
- endofreach 5mo ago
  Also, usually, as soon as they realize they have a not-total-shit product, they immediately start to screw it up completely. So if bing ends up being better actually, it won't be long until they replace every good part of it with something ridiculous. I don't know how microsoft does it, but they are so incredibly good at that.
tedd4u 5mo ago
DuckDuckGo uses the bing index/backend. I’ve had it as default for 5-8 years. Probably once a day I’ll add the !g to pop it over to Google. Works great. I search a lot, many different types of queries. When I pop over to Google it’s usually a Boolean query looking for a needle in a haystack (that one comment somewhere where someone is using the same combination of two or three rare items together).
BrunoBernardino 5mo ago
While there are good options like DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Ecosia, there are plenty of (better) alternatives, where you're not the product [1], I'd recommend looking into! [1]: https://alternativeto.net/software/google-search/?license=commercial https://alternativeto.net/software/google-search/?license=co...
unselect5917 5mo ago
I've been using Brave for years. And I'm in the process of moving off of gmail. Why bing of all engines?

Bing has been better than Google for some time. Again, it's embarrassing for them to sacrifice marketshare for paid results and an intermediate-form AI fad that will turn into the same paid result funnel.

RyanOD 5mo ago
I hear people cite other search engines as "better" all the time. Better how?
- edelbitter 5mo ago
  e.g. for a two keyword search, Google & DDG return results containing a similar (but more at the moment, more popular, so I understand why they do this) keyword as the first one, and no relation whatsoever with the second. Any search that manages to actually show results related to both of my input terms get the "better" award from me.
mrweasel 5mo ago
Bing is surprisingly not to bad. I don't use it anymore, but it's been providing better results than Google for sometime.

sphars 5mo ago

There is a 99% chance (IMO) that Microsoft is going to go the same route as Google here

vitorsr 5mo ago
Microsoft has already gone down this road some three years ago... https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-search-with-a-new-ai-powered-microsoft-bing-and-edge-your-copilot-for-the-web/ https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-sear...
endofreach 5mo ago
Also, usually, as soon as they realize they have a not-total-shit product, they immediately start to screw it up completely. So if bing ends up being better actually, it won't be long until they replace every good part of it with something ridiculous. I don't know how microsoft does it, but they are so incredibly good at that.

tedd4u 5mo ago

DuckDuckGo uses the bing index/backend. I’ve had it as default for 5-8 years. Probably once a day I’ll add the !g to pop it over to Google. Works great. I search a lot, many different types of queries. When I pop over to Google it’s usually a Boolean query looking for a needle in a haystack (that one comment somewhere where someone is using the same combination of two or three rare items together).

BrunoBernardino 5mo ago

While there are good options like DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Ecosia, there are plenty of (better) alternatives, where you're not the product [1], I'd recommend looking into! [1]: https://alternativeto.net/software/google-search/?license=commercial https://alternativeto.net/software/google-search/?license=co...

unselect5917 5mo ago

I've been using Brave for years. And I'm in the process of moving off of gmail. Why bing of all engines?