accuracy

Submitted by mesiah on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 7:39pm

So far I am unimpressed by bings search accuracy. I don't champion any one search engine and usually bounce back between google and yahoo depending on what type of search I am doing. With either of those two search engines, if you are looking for a specific company or webpage you are almost gauranteed it is going to fall within the top 5 pages listed. But so far results from bing have been very hit or miss. I've looked for a few companies that didn't even have their official site make the first page of listings. And the predictive auto completion (for lack of better terms) in the search box doesn't work very well. For example, on the day the new palm pre launched, typing "pal" in the yahoo or google search box would give you "palm pre" as the number one search on the list. It didn't even make the list on bing.

 

Maybe it just needs some tweeks. For now I will continue to try it out, but for it to become my search engine of choice it has a long way to go.

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I am loving bing!  I

Submitted by nebulaz on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 6:20pm

I am loving bing!  I actually liked how Ask let you customize your picture for your homepage, over the simple google layout, but I love how bing rotates a new picture in everyday for you!  much more exotic than what I could muster on Ask every couple of days.  I was hesitant to actually use bing and click on the links before SiteAdvisor was working on it, but not that McAfee has SA working on bing, I find it every bit as good as ask, but layout and ui are improved. 

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Pr0n

Submitted by Odaecom on Thu, 06/18/2009 - 4:17pm

And it has nothing to do with the ability to play videos in the search by just rolling over the results. ;)

"I'm not sick, but I'm not well"

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