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Re:A Hired Gun for Microsoft in Dogged Pursuit of Google by crcoffey on Sunday August 30, 2009 @11:34PM (#795372)
Funny how I only even think of Bing when I come across a reference on ycombinator, Then forget about it all over again.

His biggest issue is that 90% of people have Google as their homepage, I don't even think about it when it opens anymore, Its just always there as I need it.

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Re:A Hired Gun for Microsoft in Dogged Pursuit of Google by rksprst on Monday August 31, 2009 @12:50AM (#795455)
I've actually switched to bing for search. I like their UI better and the results are just as good or better.
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Re:A Hired Gun for Microsoft in Dogged Pursuit of Google by freetard on Monday August 31, 2009 @01:07AM (#795472)
No, Bing results are actually much worse, especially for detecting typos in not so popular queries.
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Re:A Hired Gun for Microsoft in Dogged Pursuit of Google by tectonic on Monday August 31, 2009 @12:41AM (#795450)
I use Bing for the cashback sometimes. I'm happy to take Microsoft's money.
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Re:A Hired Gun for Microsoft in Dogged Pursuit of Google by bitwize on Monday August 31, 2009 @02:48AM (#795538)
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/10/23/

A lot of people are...

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Re:A Hired Gun for Microsoft in Dogged Pursuit of Google by tk999 on Monday August 31, 2009 @01:02AM (#795469)
I am switching to bing as well. The result is as good as google and I am happy. The way Google handles the whole adsense stuff just make me sick.
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Re:A Hired Gun for Microsoft in Dogged Pursuit of Google by MikeCapone on Monday August 31, 2009 @02:43AM (#795535)
My browser homepage is actually Google's new "Caffeine" beta:

http://www2.sandbox.google.com/

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