33 Percent Of Google Users Will Use Bing More After ‘Bing It On’ Challenge

Re:33 Percent Of Google Users Will Use Bing More After ‘Bing... by logn on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @12:22AM (#4605830)

Bing does far less word-stemming in my experience which is probably because of inferior technology but it's often a more desirable result.

For instance if you search a weird business name, Google tries to make it into more statistically and phonetically common words. Bing gives you more of a literal search. So they're going to wow a proportion of users who find that's what they want.

Google is so annoying sometimes with word-stemming. You used to be able to use the + sign to turn it off. Then you had to use quotes. Now the quotes don't even seem to work. Sometime Google is too smart for its own good.

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Re:33 Percent Of Google Users Will Use Bing More After ‘Bing... by pchivers on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @12:41AM (#4605880)

Google's verbatim search option will give you the results you want:

http://www.wired.com/business/2011/11/google-verbatim-search...

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Re:33 Percent Of Google Users Will Use Bing More After ‘Bing... by boyter on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @02:20AM (#4606094)

I wonder why they didn't consider going for a blended approach to the results (assuming there isn't too many permutations for the search term) with a disambiguation selector similar to the following, https://duckduckgo.com/?q=test

Would save clicking around, and probably solve the use case for 90% of people.

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Re:33 Percent Of Google Users Will Use Bing More After ‘Bing... by muzzamike on Wednesday October 03, 2012 @12:25AM (#4605842)

Interesting point; this has bothered me as well. I'm usually reduced to re-searching with "query -word -word" to remove the results targeted by the stemmed words.

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