Just saw someone use Bing unironically as their main search engine. They have a masters in computer science.
Equal parts horrified and kinda tempted to study them like a creature

Maybe they worked at Microsoft and weren’t allowed to use any other search engine? (I highly doubt that though)

I do believe it’s a shame there’s no real competition for Google.

@red-knot doubt that too and it IS a shame we have to bow to our evil overlord to find anything but Bing? Really? It's like the worst of Google except you also can't find anything too so this was... And exprience.

You are making more of a big deal than it actually is.

When I tested bing by searching "pharmacy" just now, it did show pharmacies around me, so I don't see how bad it is. Also searching "calculator" or "unit converter" showed inline web apps as expected.

Google search algorithm 🧐 is just too powerful

@Ohiorenua Give me a real example. What kind of search term shows us that google's search algorithm is more powerful than bing's search algorithm. Being more popular doesn't equal to being better.

As a new parent I tried searching "is it safe for babies to sleep on their stomach?" on both google.com and bing.com just now.

I don't think one is more powerful than the other, in the results. Actually, bing.com is more creative, since it showed the answer in a big header instead of, simply linking us to a popular article. It even shows useful youtube videos on the right side.

@daniel-wu
Bing gives you answer but Google gives you choice. I don't use bing much so I may not know all about it.
But during my short period of using bing, I more than often go to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th page when searching for answer.
Maybe things must have changed by now, that was 3 years ago

@daniel-wu If you search for Vivaldi Browser the first link on Bing is for Opera, Google gives you a download link for Vivaldi. Like it's just a small example I stumbled over yesterday while setting up a laptop but stuff like that tends to happen often in my exprience. Bing gives you the searched answer for some things but sometimes it just tells you stuff you very much DIDN'T ask for. And like of course my rant was over dramatic for comedic purposes but stuff like that makes Bing kinda frustrating for me personally at least. That said, of course everyone can use whatever they want.