Bing Challenge

[garbon]

So I did this and really for the most part Google and Bing seemed to be the same (2 pro-bing, 1 pro-google, 2 draw).When I typed gay scottish (both gay and scottish as separate terms were dropdown options for me) - google was more likely to give me results about the church hating gays whereas Bing gave me results about things to do as a gay person.

http://www.bingiton.com

[Liep]

Just redirects to Bing.com

[garbon]

Maybe it is only a US thing. For me it goes directly to the bing challenge which has you do head-to-head "blinded" searches.

[Jaron]

I picked bing 3 out of 5 times. :worship:

[Eddie Teach]

Does Bing offer anything new? I mean Google works well enough that I'm not looking for a better Google.

[garbon]

I had the same thought when using altavista.

[Barrister]

I had the same thought when using altavista.

I used to love altavista.

But a decade ago when I was introduced to google, it was night and day difference in the quality of searches.

[DGuller]

Two for Google, three for draw, zero for Bing.

[Eddie Teach]

Google won me over with the image searches, none of the search engines I used before had them.

[derspiess]

Google 3, Bing 1, with one draw. 

Bing is fine for what it is, and for some people (like my parents) it's probably better.  But IMO it tries too hard to do my thinking for me.  With Google I just search for a couple keywords and I get a good range of choices-- it also seems more forgiving of spelling mistakes or typos.

[DontSayBanana]

Meant to put this in here a couple days ago, when I did this, but mine came out 3/5 Bing, 2/5 Google, no draws.  Given what I know of Google's search algorithms, I could just about set up decent boolean search queries, so Bing's more useful when I've got vague tokens, and Google's my weapon of choice for finding exact pages with very specific information.

[frunk]

I did this at a Microsoft store where they bribed me with a free t-shirt.  2 Google, 1 Bing, 2 draws.  Still got the t-shirt though.

[Josquius]

I take it this bing challenge thing I've seen mentioned elsewhere too is some US advertising campaign?

I really should use bing more. I remember back in the day it was considered good practice to use more than one search engine to get different results.

[Barrister]

I take it this bing challenge thing I've seen mentioned elsewhere too is some US advertising campaign?

I really should use bing more. I remember back in the day it was considered good practice to use more than one search engine to get different results.

But then along came google which pretty reliably gave you the result you were looking for in its 1st or second hit.

[DontSayBanana]

I take it this bing challenge thing I've seen mentioned elsewhere too is some US advertising campaign?

I really should use bing more. I remember back in the day it was considered good practice to use more than one search engine to get different results.

True, but then search providers started buying up each other and copying their algorithms- it's been a long time since you could realistically expect different results between, say, DogPile, MetaCrawler, and Alta Vista.