“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33% of US searches

Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by thanatropism on Monday August 21, 2017 @01:18PM (#15066029)

Unpopular to admit here (unlike, say, reddit): Bing is useful for pornography, Google is not.

Hi, my name is thanatropism and on occasion I look at pornography. Throw eggs at will.

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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by djscram on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:27PM (#15066530)

Who is Will and why should we throw eggs at him?

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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by falcolas on Monday August 21, 2017 @04:13PM (#15067456)

IIRC, some Microsoft employee mentioned that this was not an accident - that they had people expressly working on making the porn searches (and search experience) good.

Some job, eh?

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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by hacktothefuture on Monday August 21, 2017 @01:40PM (#15066179)

Purely for academic reasons of course, why is Bing better suited for this purpose?

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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by vincengomes on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:27PM (#15066526)

It's because Google is better at hiding such results and it's impossible to completely turn off safe search. So Bing by being the major player left is better for such searches.

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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by guiomie on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:08PM (#15066389)

You get audio and video previews on the thumbnails. It's a great user experience, but in terms of quantity, way less search results than the better porn aggregator out there.

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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by odessacubbage on Monday August 21, 2017 @02:11PM (#15066408)

google changed their search results so that it is impossible to entirely disable safe search.

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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by seanalltogether on Monday August 21, 2017 @01:53PM (#15066257)

bing still lets you control safe search filters the way google used to

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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by CaptSpify on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:17PM (#15067928)

My experience is that Bing is also better at non-porn, but NSFW material. I've had to search for medical images from time to time, and Google's safe-browsing filter is way overzealous. Color me surprised!

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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by dr_bloodmoney on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:54PM (#15068143)

Any time I see that some of my results have been culled on Google due to DMCA, I usually pop over to Bing and find what I am looking for.

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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by PoachedSausage on Monday August 21, 2017 @05:18PM (#15067935)

I actually use bing maps because it provides access to UK Ordnance Survey small scale (1:50,000 and 1:25,000) map data.

Provide it and they will come.

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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by nickpeterson on Monday August 21, 2017 @01:38PM (#15066159)

Do you have a preference on egg type, I have quite a few ostrich eggs but no chicken eggs.

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Re:“Bing is bigger than you think,” Microsoft boasts, at 33%... by 0xFFC on Monday August 21, 2017 @01:28PM (#15066101)

We all are guilty of that crime ;)

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