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Search engine preference depends, at least to a degree, on personal taste and this guy is entitled to his opinions, but this seems a bit contrived. He complains

by jm4 17y ago

Search engine preference depends, at least to a degree, on personal taste and this guy is entitled to his opinions, but this seems a bit contrived. He complains twice about a horizontal scroll bar when he's using what looks like a very small window. Come on. The complaint about wasted space is a little puzzling too because in the screenshots it looks like both Google and Bing have about the same amount of "wasted space". The difference is Bing has it on the left and Google has it on the right. The only gripe that seems legitimate is the image search and it's a bit of a stretch to call the Bing results "irrelevant". The Google image results for a "chi-square table" are clearly better, but some of the images on Bing are similar or identical. I'm very much interested in comparisons between Google and Bing. This might be the toughest competition Google has faced so far and it's a great opportunity for us to see where search engines can improve. This article, however, is a lousy comparison. There's almost nothing of substance here. I suspect it's a link bait article designed to plug the book that's prominently displayed on the right side of the page. That's fine, of course, but it's still a lame post.

iamelgringo 17y ago
I've been using Bing as my browser default since it came out. By and large, it's on a par with Google for most queries. I do find myself going back and forth from Google search for programming questions because of the Google groups search and blog search. The Python and Django Google groups are very active, and quite helpful. I also have found a number of links to content on programming questions via Bing that I wouldn't have found using Google alone. So, I find myself using both search engines quite a bit. I've been planning some recent travel and the airfare search on Bing was excellent. Up until recently, Kayak was my primary airfare comparison site, but Bing's tools won big for me. They felt a faster and more responsive. You can also get airfare trend graphs and get "buy now prices increasing" or "buy later, prices decreasing" recommendations. Bing is now my primary airfare search tool. Either way, it's great that Google is getting a little pressure to compete in search. It's been the defacto monopoly for several years, and that's bound to cause some stagnation. I think the competition is going to make search better all the way around, and it's that reason that I'm going to keep Bing as my browser default.

by jm4 17y ago

iamelgringo 17y ago

I've been using Bing as my browser default since it came out. By and large, it's on a par with Google for most queries. I do find myself going back and forth from Google search for programming questions because of the Google groups search and blog search. The Python and Django Google groups are very active, and quite helpful. I also have found a number of links to content on programming questions via Bing that I wouldn't have found using Google alone. So, I find myself using both search engines quite a bit. I've been planning some recent travel and the airfare search on Bing was excellent. Up until recently, Kayak was my primary airfare comparison site, but Bing's tools won big for me. They felt a faster and more responsive. You can also get airfare trend graphs and get "buy now prices increasing" or "buy later, prices decreasing" recommendations. Bing is now my primary airfare search tool. Either way, it's great that Google is getting a little pressure to compete in search. It's been the defacto monopoly for several years, and that's bound to cause some stagnation. I think the competition is going to make search better all the way around, and it's that reason that I'm going to keep Bing as my browser default.