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Re:Alternative search engines to Google? by trailfox on Sunday November 17, 2013 @05:42AM (#6748383)
The search results of Bing seemed very similar to DDG. It seemed to do a mediocre job if figuring out the context of my search. Google seemed to figure out the question behind my query. With Bing the results seemed to feel more like a regular text search where it matched the words I was searching for to semi-random websites. Perhaps google has so much search traffic and they check which links people click on for different searches, so they are able to adapt to put more useful results closer to the top for a given query over time.
Re:Alternative search engines to Google? by WoodenChair on Sunday November 17, 2013 @06:34AM (#6748497)
Interesting, what are some example queries that we can try on the Bing vs Google challenge that will highlight this? (http://www.bingiton.com)
Re:Alternative search engines to Google? by trailfox on Sunday November 17, 2013 @09:15AM (#6749004)
It was a few months ago so I can't remember the queries. I tried a few to compare now and didn't notice much difference between the two with the examples I tested with.