Bing vs Google vs Yahoo (Blind Test)

Farang

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I'm at bing 4 out of 4.. pretty impressive but it seems like bing gives less forum results which, a lot of the time, is what I'm looking for (as a lot of obscure questions are only answered on forums).
 
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Originally posted by: Farang
I'm at bing 4 out of 4.. pretty impressive but it seems like bing gives less forum results which, a lot of the time, is what I'm looking for (as a lot of obscure questions are only answered on forums).

at work, it is nice to have experts-exchange.com pop up with answer to my software engineering needs.

 

nageov3t

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Originally posted by: Farang
I'm at bing 4 out of 4.. pretty impressive but it seems like bing gives less forum results which, a lot of the time, is what I'm looking for (as a lot of obscure questions are only answered on forums).

I agree.

I find a lot more information from forums than just generic sites when I'm looking to troubleshoot something or find product reviews/recommendations, which is what like 99% of my searches are about.
 

Hacp

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Jun 8, 2005
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So I double checked the results and they omit some google searches.
 

lokiju

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May 29, 2003
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3 out of four were Yahoo for me. The other was Bing.

Pretty surprising considering I pretty much only use Google.
 
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Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
Originally posted by: Farang
I'm at bing 4 out of 4.. pretty impressive but it seems like bing gives less forum results which, a lot of the time, is what I'm looking for (as a lot of obscure questions are only answered on forums).

at work, it is nice to have experts-exchange.com pop up with answer to my software engineering needs.

What the fuck? You intentionally subject yourself to Expert Sex Change? Dude, do yourself a favour.
http://stackoverflow.com
http://serverfault.com
 

coldmeat

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Jul 10, 2007
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They all gave me mostly the same results, just in a different order. Even if one of the other sites gave me better results, I would still stick to Google.
 

thescreensavers

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Aug 3, 2005
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You can easily tell the diffrences in most searches. Bing will give MSN type results, and Google will give, you tube results so you can tell.
 

ultimatebob

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Jul 1, 2001
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Wow... I'm pretty much evenly split between Bing, Google, and Yahoo.

Bing seems to be finding some of the more obscure things that I threw at it like model numbers of old computer equipment, which I thought was Google's forte. Odd.
 

Cogman

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Sep 19, 2000
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Bing and Google seemed to give me the same results. With the searches I did, yahoo stood out like a sore thumb. No way google would come up with geocities as its first result.
 
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Originally posted by: thescreensavers
You can easily tell the diffrences in most searches. Bing will give MSN type results, and Google will give, you tube results so you can tell.

Not that I noticed.