What Bing Does Best

Live Science says that Bing is the fastest growing search engine among the top ten and, while it may have a way to go before beating Google, it does do some things better than everyone else.

According to Experian Hitwise, Google accounted for 71 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Oct. 3, 2009. Yahoo! Search grabbed 16 percent and Bing 9 percent of searches, while the remaining 53 search engines accounted for just under 4 percent.

Bing provides cashback better than any other web server!

Yea.. its growing by constantly taking over my browsers as the preferred search provider nearly every day. Most of the time I dont have time to change it back.. and just use Bing. It still sucks as a search engine.

Originally Posted by Kaizer

Yea.. its growing by constantly taking over my browsers as the preferred search provider nearly every day. Most of the time I dont have time to change it back.. and just use Bing. It still sucks as a search engine.

WTH? How does it take over? How can you let it take over?

know why?

a. they hijacked alot of homepages in IE on almost all machines i support
b. they went from making ie8 optional to "forced critical update" leading to an increase in bing users
c. alot of MS pages now redirect to bing


when this happened tons of clients would call asking wtf happened to their homepage

One can say anything one wants about anything, but it doesn't really change empirical facts now, does it?

So wait, there's 53 other search engines, and people actually use them? Wtf

Originally Posted by jroe52

know why?

a. they hijacked alot of homepages in IE on almost all machines i support
b. they went from making ie8 optional to "forced critical update" leading to an increase in bing users
c. alot of MS pages now redirect to bing


when this happened tons of clients would call asking wtf happened to their homepage

A. Confirmed "bug" from MS. It supposedly has been corrected. If you did a custom install you had the choice to let it change or not.
B. As of today on all the work computers here in the office IE8 is still listed as an optional update. Built a new one today in fact and it is listed as optional for Windows XP.
C. Yeah what's your point? Google pages point to Google so why should MS not point to Bing?

Who cares what engine you use as long as it gets you to where you need to go anyways?

I use Bing at home, and Google at work (because for some reason my work blocks bing)

How the hell are there still 53 search engines out there??? I remember dogpile and all that crap prior to google, but I can't believe there's still that many left...

Originally Posted by Zoomer

Bing provides cashback better than any other web server!

+1, exactly.

Bing's Maps Absolutely SLAY Google!

Google's maps may have "street view", but the "Birdseye View" that bing has is VERY clear. To up the ante, the birds eye view allows you to get all 4 sides of the building or area, so if you are looking for a house, you can see the detail view of ALL 4 sides of the house!

Bing's maps also seem to be updated a lot more frequently.

Originally Posted by jroe52

know why?

a. they hijacked alot of homepages in IE on almost all machines i support
b. they went from making ie8 optional to "forced critical update" leading to an increase in bing users
c. alot of MS pages now redirect to bing


when this happened tons of clients would call asking wtf happened to their homepage

Originally Posted by TheBluePill

Bing's Maps Absolutely SLAY Google!

Google's maps may have "street view", but the "Birdseye View" that bing has is VERY clear. To up the ante, the birds eye view allows you to get all 4 sides of the building or area, so if you are looking for a house, you can see the detail view of ALL 4 sides of the house!

Bing's maps also seem to be updated a lot more frequently.

Whoa...just noticed Bird's Eye View for the first time. That looks sweet! How did they do that - while Google has cars they have helicopters?

Originally Posted by HOCP4ME

Whoa...just noticed Bird's Eye View for the first time. That looks sweet! How did they do that - while Google has cars they have helicopters?

airplanes, they have been doing this for a long time, it was just part of terraserver

If you are any kind of developer, or work in the IT field at all, Bing DEVASTATES Google for modern, relevant coding advice.

I don't have a clue if it's because the search algorithm is better, or Bing just has a much "younger" database compared to Google (comparatively saddled with tons of results from early on in the internet...relative to Bing, anyway), but when looking for code snippets or advice on how to implement a function you've not tried before? Bing is FAR superior to Google. After years on Google, I'd totally tried it on a whim when I couldn't find something there, and of the top 10 pages, 6 of them had exactly what I needed - which wasn't even in the top 100 on Google.

When you grow from 1% to 2% of the market that's like 100% growth. It's like my friends from Albania telling me how great their economy is - because it was growing fast.

Didn't read, too lazy: Wolfram Alpha considered one of those 53? And is it super kewl?!

Here's a good synopsis of the article:

"Leslie’s takeaway: Use Google for research. Use Bing for images, videos, shopping, travel and gossip. It’s a site to visit every day if only for the tidbits on the homepage."