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Which engine gave the best results?

  • Bing

    Votes: 7 7.0%
  • Google

    Votes: 92 92.0%
  • Yahoo

    Votes: 1 1.0%

  • Total voters
    100

OKahra

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jun 15, 2009
1
0
Hello,

I just registered this forum while surfing and I’m curious about what you think about Bing.
According to some news it already started to overtake Yahoo. But it seems to me they can’t beat Google. I think more creative ideas and some vision is needed to overtake Google.

Besides of that there’s adsense and adword industry. Google is creative and established firm, Bing brings nothing new to us.

If Google creates linux based operating system, maybe they can overtake Microsoft?
 

TuffLuffJimmy

macrumors G3
Apr 6, 2007
9,022
136
Portland, OR
Bing's the one that allowed kids to look at porn (even with family filters), correct?

No, Google and Bing both let you look at Porn (this is with filters off on BOTH). The issue with Bing is it allows you to play content from the Bing window, so you can watch porn right in the Bing page. That's the only difference and that really isn't much different than clicking a link in Google.
 

themoonisdown09

macrumors 601
Nov 19, 2007
4,319
18
Georgia, USA
You wanna know where they got the name from? The developers decided that it would be cool to allow you to watch porn right from the search without navigating to the actual sites. You watch it long enough and "Bing".
 

Schtumple

macrumors 601
Jun 13, 2007
4,905
131
benkadams.com
No, Google and Bing both let you look at Porn (this is with filters off on BOTH). The issue with Bing is it allows you to play content from the Bing window, so you can watch porn right in the Bing page. That's the only difference and that really isn't much different than clicking a link in Google.

Ahhh that's it, well, I'm sure many a 13-16yo boy loves Bing ;)
 

belvdr

macrumors 603
Aug 15, 2005
5,945
1,372
I'm not sure we could generate enough searches to see which is better really. I say just use the search engine that gets you what you want. Who cares what everyone else uses. Back in the day, I used WebCrawler while everyone else seemed to be hung on AltaVista.
 

Chaszmyr

macrumors 601
Aug 9, 2002
4,267
86
Interestingly, I use Yahoo a lot... for everything other than searching. I like their movie page, their news page, etc. However, I always switch over to Google for searches.

I ran five searches on this page, though, and got 3 Yahoo, 1 Google, and 1 Bing.
 

liptonlover

macrumors 6502a
Mar 13, 2008
989
0
I put google, but I don't really know or care. I didn't take your test.

I don't care which one gives me better results, but even if I did I'm guessing all three would be satisfactory and unless compared side by side (which normally they wouldn't) most people would probably think whichever one they're using is the best. All three probably give pretty much the same results. So why bother deciding which is better? I'm perfectly happy with Google. I love the company and their products, and it's convenient to use their search as well even if it isn't the best. So again, I don't really know or care.

Nate
 

rdowns

macrumors Penryn
Jul 11, 2003
27,397
12,521
The more I use Bing, the more I like it. Competition for Google can only be a good thing.
 

mmmdreg

macrumors 65816
Apr 14, 2002
1,393
0
Sydney, Australia
I put google, but I don't really know or care. I didn't take your test.
Nate

I'm uncertain why you bothered to post the longest post in the thread on the fact that you don't care. As you said, obviously all three of them would give comparable results and so it wouldn't really matter which one you use. Bing gave better results in the side-by-side comparison but I'll still use google because I like it.. The idea of the poll was to get an empirical idea of which search engine people prefer without the effects of certain biases we may have. But then again, who cares?
 

liptonlover

macrumors 6502a
Mar 13, 2008
989
0
I'm uncertain why you bothered to post the longest post in the thread on the fact that you don't care. As you said, obviously all three of them would give comparable results and so it wouldn't really matter which one you use. Bing gave better results in the side-by-side comparison but I'll still use google because I like it.. The idea of the poll was to get an empirical idea of which search engine people prefer without the effects of certain biases we may have. But I don't care.

Lol that was the writer in me taking over, I have a tendency to write long posts when I don't mean to. That aside though, I was just trying to make the point that it doesn't matter in the short or long run. I'm a sucker for debate too, just so ya know :cool:
anyways, I'll stop stealing the thread now. Carry on, good sirs.

Nate
 

liptonlover

macrumors 6502a
Mar 13, 2008
989
0
Ok... I know I said I don't care but curiosity killed the cat, right? I did the test, but for my own entertainment I did it very scientifically.
The first to 5 wins.
All searches should be treated like something a friend told me about, and I'm trying to find more about it.
The best result is the one with a relevant search closest to the top, or if it's a tie then the one with the most relevant results.
My name is simply a vanity search, one which I do now and then for fun.

yahoo *****
(Nate Weil, Darwin, MIT, online encyclopedia, BASIC)
google *
(Civil Squabble)
bing None
(...)

So yahoo one. But I have to stand by what I said earlier, I still don't care. Google is still what I'm using. The test was fun though. I did notice one thing... I did the same search in yahoo (Nate Weil) and got slightly different results from the test's yahoo column.

Nate
 

Jon-Luke

macrumors 6502
May 22, 2009
278
0
Cape Town
This is the first time I've heard of Bing so I'm giving it a go -- so far I'm impressed...

The image search function is definitely better on Bing I don't think any other search engine has this many options

;):apple:
 

benthewraith

macrumors 68040
May 27, 2006
3,140
143
Fort Lauderdale, FL
128735800148427507.jpg


Found on Bing images.

And I like Bing. Its my new default in Firefox. Not sure how to change the default in Safari.
 

dmmcintyre3

macrumors 68020
Mar 4, 2007
2,131
3
bing doesn't even find my website. It only returns 40 things for my username. Now how is that possible with over 1000 posts on here?
 

Berlepsch

macrumors 6502
Oct 22, 2007
303
48
No, Google and Bing both let you look at Porn (this is with filters off on BOTH). The issue with Bing is it allows you to play content from the Bing window, so you can watch porn right in the Bing page. That's the only difference and that really isn't much different than clicking a link in Google.

Still, the Porn-per-Search ratio is much better for Google. That's why I stick with it.
 

rdowns

macrumors Penryn
Jul 11, 2003
27,397
12,521
You wanna know where they got the name from? The developers decided that it would be cool to allow you to watch porn right from the search without navigating to the actual sites. You watch it long enough and "Bing".

Probably should have called it Schwing!
 
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