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Bing It On - Bing v Google blind test.
flagpole
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I noticed that Bing are promoting a kind of pepsi challenge between themselves and google called Bing It On
They say that in a blind test more people prefer Bing results to google.
Myself i've been increasingly impressed with Bing. The maps blow google's offering out the water. And the image search is less prudish.
I think most of us use google because we use google. it's got to be good to test that from time to time.
http://www.bingiton.com
They say that in a blind test more people prefer Bing results to google.
Myself i've been increasingly impressed with Bing. The maps blow google's offering out the water. And the image search is less prudish.
I think most of us use google because we use google. it's got to be good to test that from time to time.
http://www.bingiton.com
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Mark
I think I'll stick to Google.
I put in search terms I've used over the past few days, each were a few words long.
Bing mainly produced random things related to the words i entered, Google however consistently bought up what I was after.
Exactly. A more sensible name for it would have been Microsoft Search.
go to bing.com
top row, above the search box says WEB IMAGES MAPS NEWS
I don't know about you but i could tell which one was which. so it was more a question of who i wanted to vote for.
Microsoft aren't exactly going to have videos on their website that show internet users saying they prefer Google to Bing after the test. Microsoft will be wanting to promote/encourage internet users as much as possible to start using their search engine, Bing.
Ah, okay. I was using the link in your first post.
I searched for things I would never normally search for, so as not to know what the results would be. For some reason the Bing search brought up some dubious entries on one of my searches that did kinda give it away as not my clean and reliable Google search.
Mark
They don't have Street View so that will go against them. After comparing image quality of the same street in the same area, Google's definitely have much better image quality. The street names in Google maps are just the right size whereas in Bing Maps, they're too big and too white, and they distract you when you're trying to concentrate on looking at different buildings and what not. As far as online maps go, I'd choose Google's every time.....unless Microsoft improved theirs a hell of a lot as far as the above criticisms are concerned.
1 for Bing
I heard that Bing is a recursive acronym for "Bing Is Not Google".
Bing 1
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I'll stick to Google.
satellite photos and street view are one thing. but it's a side issue for mapping.
the Bing maps are much better and the rooting for navigation is incomparable. the interface is better too. look at for example the print view for navigation.
1 Draw.
Google just seems to "get" what you're searching for, providing more relevant results.
lol
you click on directions and two boxes appear A and B
Probably the same sort of idiot who thought of Google! Just goes to show how easily people are swayed into accepting nonsense as the norm....;)
DuckDuckGo. Usually suffices my searches, but for images I tend to move to google...
These days it seems slightly strange that, in the web world we have Google versus Microsoft with no Apple anywhere.
This was probably what the person who thought of Google/googol had in mind.
Meaning that the person who thought of Google/googol, was probably aiming to eventually have this amount of websites indexed by their search engine in years to come. I doubt the founders of Google will ever get to see this happen. If this does happen, it'll probably take 50+years (starting from now) to achieve this. Even now there must be an unimaginable amount of websites out there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googol