What is your favourite search engine.

[vdroide]

I am a Mac and iPhone user. Since Apple recently struck a deal with their old friend and enemy Microsoft, by using Bing services for Siri, I decided to take the Bing Challenge.

My history: I was previously a Google user, Android, all Google services etc. Upon starting my PhD, I bought Office for obvious reason and saw the value in SkyDrive, which turned to be my favourite cloud service. I have a good Outlook.com email address which I can?t use because of lack of IMAP or something similar for OSX, but I left Gmail for iCloud. I decided to try to get Google out of my life and my services seemed to be between Microsoft and Apple. So why not Bing.

Results: For my work (natural and applied sciences) Bing wins hands down. My results are much more precise. I was really, really surprised and I have seen that Bing has drastically improved since the last time I used it.

What do you guys use? I must assume its Bing as your are Windows users.

P.S. Google Maps still seem to be best all round mapping service. If someone can better them in that area, I can live a Google free life.

 

[rdubmu]

I use bing as it fits my needs and has better results. I also use bing for the bing rewards and it is tied into my windows phone.

#1 reason why I use bing thou is because of the better results and because I dislike google.

 

[mitunchidamparam]

i use google still, but i think nokia maps are much better than google maps
here in netherlands, nokia maps is much better
city lens, off line navigation are a big deal breaker

 

[sueha]

Got used to Bing. Dont miss anything from Google. Definitely prefer the Nokia Maps to Google's though.

 

[vdroide]

Why do you guys prefer Nokia maps? I find Google has a lot more information, lots more POIs, and street view. Granted on the iPhone Apple is now surprisingly more accurate than Google Maps for me, but I still prefer Google maps.


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[Luminatic]

I use Nokia maps for directions and mostly google for searching. Reason for google: Bing is still in beta in my country and some features (e. g. filter results by date) are missing. Making google the better tool for me for searching. Reason for Nokia maps: I could so far always rely on their street maps and driving directions. And that's the most important for me. I know satellite maps are better on Google and there is no street view, but these are features I use rarely.

 

[gedzum]

I initially used bing in spite of google and just got used to it. It's functional enough for me and has become my primary search engine.

I don't use maps all the time but they all seem to work fine in my usage.

 

[LeLee092]

If I'm on my phone: Bing and Nokia
If I'm on my computer: google maps and 50/50 between Bing and Google (Bing is my default coz of the rewards, but old habits die hard, and I end up typing google on my browser a lot anyways )

 

[Trehanx12]

Google. Bing is still in Beta outside America and it's extremely outdated, I'd prefer it if they bothered to give international updates.

 

[dba415]

On this forum it's 50-50 it seems between bing and google. Everywhere else in the world it's probably like 95-5 Google.

 

[WPmunkey]

Bing because of the rewards. Now I'm just used to it. Plus Bing on WP is much better than using the Google app

 

[Laura Knotek]

Bing because of the rewards. Now I'm just used to it. Plus Bing on WP is much better than using the Google app

My thoughts too.

 

[Muessig]

Generally on the computer I tend to use Google. Sometimes I'll use Bing if I want to search for something really quick (I have it setup so that what I type in the URL bar searches through Bing). On the phone I use Bing. Generally speaking whenever I use Bing I don't really notice a big difference between the two unless I've already searched for something using Google and I'm looking fore a specific result, sometimes Bing won't show that result.

 

[Coreldan]

Bing for a few reasons. I will admit to being a bit of a MS ******, but the fact is that I was constantly getting better search results when I decided to give Bing a chance upon getting Windows 8. In fact, my fiancee who is definitely not a ****** (or a girl ) of Microsoft has come to the same conclusion and has switched into using Bing instead of Google.

The other reasons are a bit more fanboyish and comes down to Bing serving the rest of the Windows-ecosystem I have better.

 

[ItnStln]

On this forum it's 50-50 it seems between bing and google. Everywhere else in the world it's probably like 95-5 Google.

True story! And whatever happened to Yahoo?
I use Google just because I've always used it in the past, and my homepage is iGoogle...until they kill that off!

 

[Jay Livestrong]

Google! Although im thinking of using Bing to see the difference B)

 

[Kellzea]

I find that it depends what im searching.

Bing is generally more accurate when you know what you are actually searching for. Its more "relevant" and doesn't smash adds down your face as if they were results.

That said, google is much better for vague searches (when your not quite sure what you are after) and much better at reverse image search.

So i tend to use bing as a prime search and google as backup and image search.

 

[WasteSomeTime]

Bing. I don't like the the tailored search results google keeps throwing at me.

 

[CHIP72]

I typically use Bing for general searches (mainly because my homepage is msn.com), but when I'm looking for information that is hard to find using a typical search string, I think Google is better.

One search type where Bing is definitely superior to Google is video searches. The way Bing lays out the video results is very convenient.

 

[Amil8]

I use Google.