Internally at Microsoft there's chatter about how Bing has "caught up" to Google. Taking the conversation to Blind to settle this shit and so those who support Bing have to qualify their perspective rather than sucking up all the air in the room because of their title. Even though there are many choices for search engines outside of Bing and Google let's keep the poll and conversation scoped to the comparison of these two search engines.
I think this is true in the same way a Toyota is as good as a Porsche . The Toyota great transportation and will reliably take you where you need to go but the Porsche is a much better experience. Essentially bing is good d enough 90% of the time which makes it a viable alternative.
Diplomatic answer, chickened out
Google is a habit. Bing needs to be way better than it to make me try it out.
This is the honest truth. Also, the 'habit' makes Google better because of more user data to learn from.
To really beat Google and get users, you need to introduce one killer feature in Bing that Google doesn't have, and market it like crazy. Think about deeper Facebook integration, Snapchat search, search within your apps on mobile, etc
I use bing, but only because they will pay you to use it if you sign up for bing rewards.
The only thing I've noticed Google being consistently better at is finding very recent stuff. I've used Google to find forum posts that were less than 24 hours old. Not a common scenario but it is very impressive when it happens. Bing seems to be current for big news sites, but a couple/few days behind for everything else. I made Bing my default at work after it became usable for content on msdn since that's mostly what I need at work. It has come a long way in the least few years and it has been interesting to watch it progress. Bing is now better at searching for "sequences of words in quotes" which is a common use case for me. At some point, Google stopped supporting that. That's when I made Bing my default at home. I think soccer fans call this an "own goal."
This is because so many sites have integrated with google using pub sub hub bub - live streaming updates / changes / new content to the goog. Then goog can choose to do more timely crawling. The long tail of sites that have done this will probably never spend the time to implement it for Bing (if bing even has a way to do it ...)
Also because Google has more search users. The first few users find the fresh results that get ranked higher for everyone else's benefit.
Bing is no where close to Google.
People really think that? Weird. Google has a much larger set of fresh pages, Google is better at dealing with spam and SEO, and Google indexes over an order of magnitude more pages. Bing's tail index is something called Maguro. This is public information and you can read about it in the WSDM paper. What the paper doesn't tell you is that Maguro doesn't work and has never worked, which means that Bing effectively doesn't have a tail index and can't compete on hard searches. Bing also can't compete on natural language queries.
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Every god damn time I search for something specific only Google finds it. Bing gives me something wacky that is 2nd page on Google. Also no self respecting SEO company cares about their status in Bing. Only Google.
When I worked at Microsoft I forced myself to use all MS products when at work and intentionally tried to avoid them outside of work. Anyone who thinks Bing has caught up to Google search is delusional. And I know they've been saying it for many years, I remember all the internal "Bing it on" web pages and crap like that.
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Bing is only good for searching for porn. Way better than Google!
thanks for letting us know!
Good tip. For all you know, it may be better at porn because more users use Bing for that search for fear of recording a trail on Google.