Bing is better

Sorry. Google wins hands down.

Bing? Pfft. Bong ftw.

But on a serious note: Working in tech support over the phone, I watch on GoToAssist how people find things all the time. People use bing for a LOT of stuff now......but they Google bing to get there. (Most people don't change home pages)

I find that HILARIOUS.

There is no doubt I think Bing's image search is better than google, I mean, seriouly thumbnails and you can see the page as well

but the search..shivers......Google hands down

Category           | Bing or Google

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Image Search    | Bing

Web Search       | Google

Doesn't Bing have captcha

I know how to get Google to find everything I want, so I intend to stick with Google. It's light weight, fast and almost always finds what I need. Bing is Microsoft's way of playing catch up, which is fine, but I haven't seen anything new. Google brought a lot of things to the table. Until Bing can offer some serious innovations it'll just be another search engine.

And, of course, saying 'Google it' sounds better than 'Bing it'.

No Bing scholar and no Bing print. 

I think these sum up my feelings about Bing nicely. If I'm searching images, Bing. Anything else, Google. And "Google it" is definetly better. Although "Bing it" is miles ahead of whatever the old MS search was. Wasn't it something like Windows Live Search or something? "Windows Live Search it" just rolls off the tongue

bing? what is that?

i might google it to find out

jk!

i use both although i don't see any major points for one over the other

I'm running Google Chrome with Bing as my default search engine.  Works wonders, and it's ironic.

Besides, there's something really awesome about telling people that you're binging a celebrity.

I'll use Chrome and IE for that matter when they have all the cool extensions FireFox has.

I'll repeat, the thing that put me over the top is the impending integration of Alpha.  That kicks Google's calculator all over the place.

For day-to-day search, I've gotten far better results from Bing than Google.  I'm not completely sure why and wonder whether the kind of searches I've been doing regularly include crap sites gaming Google and their algorithms and ignoring Bing and their algorithms... so I get better results on Bing.

Either way, Bing wins on anecdotal evidences on search and absolutely wins on spur-of-the-moment calculations.

Bing cashback = WIN

B.I.N.G = But It's Not Google

Bing reminds me more of an extended msn or yahoo page than a google search engine.

Yahoo uses the Bing engine so no surprises there.

Everything in Bing is excellent except for their searching algorithms. Which, in a search engine, is kind of important I'd say.

I really like Yahoo too, but for some reason everytime I need to find something I instinctively type "www.google.com" instead of "www.yahoo.com". I'm a victim of advertising

Everyone is a victim of that... it's everywhere you look and serves mostly to make the rich richer.

I block/ignore advertising when/where ever possible... yet I have all that I need and a lot of what I want.

How???  I get into the stores and research the products I want/need.  In-store comparisons serve me well enough, so I have no need of advertising telling me which products I should or shouldn't buy... or from where.

What kind of innovations need to be done? Search has always been ridiculously simple: A search box and a button to start the search.

It's awfully hard to be innovative when the best form of the product is the KISS principle taken to its logical conclusion.

The only thing they can really do is to very carefully add features in a way that dosn't distract people from the search box.

I think Bing is finally a good step forward in providing Google with some real competition.

Their search results are finally decent, the new features are nice an innovative without being too distracting, and it looks a lot more professional.

I'd still give Google the edge when it comes to searching for computer related troubleshooting stuff, though. When I'm looking for error messages, it does seem Google gets more results. Especially in really edge cases where there are very few results.

But - I'm a big fan of competition, and firmly believe that competition encourages innovation. I think it's great that Google has some decent competition.

Quick, type the below text into google and then bing and tell me what you get:

integrate (exp(x^2)*sin(x))

And then try these in both for good measure:

plot (x^2+y^2)

gradient (x^2+y^2)

Bing's Compute answer didn't link me anywhere, which is pretty useless for me 

Well I'll be darned PB, you're right.  It looks like the compute link can be balky if you try and enter it from quick-search bars and/or paste it in instead of typing it.  (no idea why).  So -1 point to MS.  If Google will ever integrate , I'll switch back over.

I have no real overriding preference but I like Bing just based on the random pics and info it shows me on the front page.  I learn things.  Things I may not actually care about, but they're interesting nonetheless.

When I'm trying to find things that aren't relatively easy to find, I usually prefer using Google.  Maybe I'm just more used to it.

ROFL!!!

One of the result on the first page of Google search have lead me to http://integrals.wolfram.com/index.jsp?expr=Exp[x^2]*sin[x]&random=false ... these online integrator seem to be great and it is now a bookmark in my browser...

These first result have lead me to http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Have try your "plot (x^2+y^2)"... result is  http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+(x^2%2By^2) ... work too with the gradient...

If Google have lead me to a site who give me the perfect result and that i can boolmark these site for future use, why do i need to use Bing ? I have try it but no link in the first page lead to something interesting...

So use Bing for your integration/graphing needs and Google for everything else...