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Re:Bing vs. Google by tallanvor on Thursday September 06, 2012 @02:34PM (#4485514)
It doesn't surprise me at all that Google tends to handle the long tail questions better. --They're much larger and have had many more years to collect data, build synonym dictionaries, etc.

When I tried to come up with obscure queries, Google does better at the technical queries, and Bing is doing better at the non-technical queries. But the technical queries usually weren't that far off.

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Re:Bing vs. Google by pooriaazimi on Thursday September 06, 2012 @03:06PM (#4485663)
Yes, they're much larger, bot not much older. Microsoft was in search business years before Bing, and I also think they now have Yahoo!'s dataset too.

They're just better in search. I generally dislike Google (because I don't like their business model, which is advertising [I don't care for privacy much, just hate ads]), but nothing is as good as them in search, nor could be (for the foreseeable future).

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