Bing needs to add this feature

skstrials

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Today, I had to quickly find out which date the Good Friday falls on to.

When I did a search "2015 Good Friday" on Bing, this is what I got.

I did not find the answer right away, so I did a same search on Google, and I was able to find the answer right away.

As much as I want to endorse Bing as a Microsoft user, Google is a superior search engine when it comes to simply looking up information.

I have tried using Bing as my main search engine for a month now. And there were a few occasions when I had to redo the search on Google. I will update this thread as I go.

Bing has a long way to go to catch up Google.

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Whenever I look up something like that on Bing it gives me a boxed answer at the top of the page. When I searched "good Friday 2015" it said "Friday April, 3" and beneath that "in 5 days". But I do agree that Bing does lacks some features that google has, such as Google flights.
 
Bing gives me the right answer.

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Tried it again but it still does not work on my Bing.

It could be that I am in Canada.

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Works fine for me. It probably is because you are in Canada, in which case Microsoft really needs to do better outside of USA.

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I tried this on DuckDuckGo, and the results were interesting. Look at the second result (highlighted)...

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Any reason as to why they would take it away?

In my opinion there was never a valid reason but I remember reading a Bing blog post that said they replaced date selection with some fancy algorithms to always 'provide the most relevant results' when dealing with searches that appeared day/time sensitive. A quick search hasn't found that blog post.

I may be wrong though and it may still exist, just USA only: http://njnnetwork.com/2013/10/how-to-enable-bing-search-by-date/

But I'm fairly sure it was removed.
 
Interesting! I think relevancy cab be too subjective. Dates are sure. I remember looking for Lumia 930 articles before I bought one. If I did not search by date I would get the same articles. I always used Google to search by date for the latest reviews, because I determined what was relevant. It's crazy they don't allow it. How do I suggest it?
 
Interesting! I think relevancy cab be too subjective. Dates are sure. I remember looking for Lumia 930 articles before I bought one. If I did not search by date I would get the same articles. I always used Google to search by date for the latest reviews, because I determined what was relevant. It's crazy they don't allow it. How do I suggest it?
How about here? https://binglistens.uservoice.com/

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Bing has this on the desktop, but even there it's kind of limited. On mobile, there is no date filtering, as far as I can tell from my use of Bing on the iPhone and WP.