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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: Chunkford on September 21, 2012, 01:18:58 PM

Title: Kapow! Take that Google
Post by: Chunkford on September 21, 2012, 01:18:58 PM
http://www.bing.com/privacy-protection

(https://th3core.com/chat/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whokilledjonniesturtle.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2010%2F11%2Fgauntlet.jpg&hash=f16a4e88578b0393f3e3e86c67939868b354e0e8)

Let the fun being.
Title: Re: Kapow! Take that Google
Post by: thesaintv12 on September 21, 2012, 01:23:06 PM
BAM! - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19664816

Love the picture BTW.
Title: Re: Kapow! Take that Google
Post by: Chunkford on September 21, 2012, 01:51:02 PM
MS are on the war path and must be gaining momentum.

As Apple attacks from the east, FB will attack from the west and MS will come flying over dropping bombs on all G strong holds.
It's only a matter of time before G crumbles (well not entirely) but enough to make the industry interesting again. There's only so many acquisitions one company can buy to make themselves look good.

Looking into my crystal ball, I predict in the year 2013 will be the year Google will start to lose it's grip. (just so it's on record you know :P )
Title: Re: Kapow! Take that Google
Post by: BoL on September 21, 2012, 04:00:18 PM
Sounds like WW3

How about these other companies just make a decent search engine and I'm sure a lot of us would care a fair bit less.
Title: Re: Kapow! Take that Google
Post by: littleman on September 21, 2012, 04:12:32 PM
I don't think Bing and Google are that far apart when it comes to quality.  I find some of G's newer defaults highly annoying, like where it tries to overwrite my query with what it guesses I am searching for, instant search is incredibly irritating.   At this point I think the greater use is more habit than a quality issue.
Title: Re: Kapow! Take that Google
Post by: bill on September 22, 2012, 12:29:30 AM
I don't know about that. I really do try to like Bing. I switched all of my family's PCs to default to Bing and I used it almost exclusively for many months, but I still end up back at Google for so many things...

Now I'm trying to like DuckDuckGo....after failing miserably with Blekko
Title: Re: Kapow! Take that Google
Post by: littleman on September 22, 2012, 12:50:41 AM
I find G the best for granular search, stuff like:
+351c +4V "main bearing"
But for general searching I find the quieter interface of bing & particularly DuckDuckGo more pleasant.  Non-PPC spam levels seem about the same on most searches.  Just my opinion...
Title: Re: Kapow! Take that Google
Post by: IrishWonder on September 22, 2012, 01:31:38 AM
Quote from: bill on September 22, 2012, 12:29:30 AM

Now I'm trying to like DuckDuckGo....after failing miserably with Blekko
Blekko lost my love when they started charging
DuckDuckGo somehow doesn't seem attractive enough to seriously try it so far