Can anyone tell me why or how Bing is any better than Google...

For the life of me I can't really see all that much difference.

Maybe I'm missing some key point or some hidden "ap" that I don't know about.

But Bing just seems to be a hyped up search engine like all the rest.

Well, Bing does have that unintentionally creepy vampire commercial where the hunky Vampire is about to chomp on the cute waifs neck and she giggles about it all the while searching on Bing which, if she is already part of the walking dead, would give her all the time in the world so that having a fast search engine would mean absolutely nothing...

and a bad one.

Google should NOT imitate Bing in any way, but I can see that they are starting to copy Bing.

Google will not be my search engine of choice for much longer, I daresay, if they keep doing that shit.

Though Google's streetview is pretty nifty, too.


Gosh gosh gosh. I can't decide!


(actually, I never use Bing as a generic search tool. For my purposes Google is far superior in this regard.)

I use Yahoo! Search, except for images, which they ruined when they bought Flickr, forcing me to turn to "the Google".

I find it works as well or better than either, and as I understand, they don't track you the way most other search engines do, including Google and Bing.

does Scroogle.org - I like my privacy.

I'm pretty tired of Microsoft right now, which is why I don't want to use Bing.

I only use it for the maps. Otherwise google is much better.

Big Cash Back http://www.bing.com/cashback/

to burger joints. Who has the best for the least? McDonalds, Burger King, In&Out, Sonic, Jack in the Box. Etc. Seems they are the same with some variations. The joys of free market competition.

Enter the search term once; it searches via both and returns both results: http://www.bing-vs-google.com/

There was a very good article on "All Things Considered" a couple of months ago about which one was better -- maybe the segment was during "All Tech Considered"? Anyway, the reporter concluded that if you're looking for something commercial, Bing was probably better. If you're looking for general knowledge, Google is better. Personally, I hate Bing.

love your avatar btw :D

Bing was in all those road movies with Bob Hope and now is Mayor of Detroit. Oh, you're talking about a different Bing, Nevermind,

You better where a Bing.com t-shirt or we will find you

...you really don't need much additional marketing. As time goes on, "google" might achieve the exalted status of "kleenex" as a catchall for the entire genre.

though there's an option to manage my default search engine, when i go to that tab -- the "remove" button doesn't activate.

i don't want bing, or a "default" search engine, installed on my machine.

some devious way so as to make it impossible to get rid of.

did i tell you how much i hate bill gates?

a friend removed it for me after it without my knowledge installed itself. :mad:

on principle, like you, i don't like stuff that does things without asking me.

easy it was just digging around and clicking a couple of things. It just took time to figure out what to click on.

is to go into "Tools", look for "Toolbars", and see if it's checked. If it is, uncheck it. Poof! all gone.

That won't stop it from curving your spine, infecting your brain, and losing the war for the Allies (since the code is still there taking up your hard drive space), but at least you won't see it amymore.

Go to control panel.

Go to "Programs and Features".

Select "bing".

Follow the prompts.

I couln't get it off but a friend somehow managed to remove it. It made me really mad that it got on there without my knowledge or acceptance of it. I wanted it off for principle alone, plus I didn't like it as a search either.

use google as I find I like it best. I'm now using Ubuntu and Firefox and I use the exceptions to allow the web sites I trust to store a cookie on my computer and then keep cookies turned off. I don't have any issues where I can't do something because of that either. If by chance I go to a site that requires a cookie set on my computer and I'll only be there for once I'll turn cookies back on and let it put the cookie then as soon as I go away from that place I erase the cookie. Right at the moment the only cookie I have on my computer is the one from du. No one is tracking me and it causes no problems on my end. Very seldom do I have to enable cookies to do something I want to do. eBay requires a cookie, so does paypal and text messaging and other than that I don't see the need for having a bunch of cookies that I can't eat, btw, on my computer. I add google to the don't allow list and a few others like bbc. Why bbc always tries to sneak one on my computer is beyond me cause I never go to their site.

:shrug:

Just got a Windows upgrade and Bing is the de facto search engine -- if I do a search, that's what I get. If I had to look for a difference between Google and Bing, I'd have to say that maybe Google brings up more immediate, relevant results. But no, there's not much difference between the two.

Because Bing sounds like a bell and Googling sound like something you do in the backseat on a date.

:shrug:

Bing does all the thinking for you. Google gives you, like, 10 different results per page. What the hell? Am I supposed to be like fucking William Einstein or something? Gah!

now i dont have to ge to my google when i have to look something up, i can just use the bing right there.

this is so cool