Switching to Bing

TriedandTested · 15 Dec 2009 at 17:23

Anyone else doing it/done it?

What with all these privacy issues of late I've started Bing'ing and changed my Firefox default search to it as well. It's actually rather good, just 'different' to Google but will just take some getting useful.

www.bing.com www.bing.co.uk

antijoke · 15 Dec 2009 at 17:24

What privacy issues?

Rich_L · 15 Dec 2009 at 17:25

I was going to, then I saw a bunch of Welsh on the page so decided not to.

Marky · 15 Dec 2009 at 17:27

Firstly... What privacy issues are you on about?

And secondly... if there are privacy issues with google - you don't think there will be privacy issues with the Microsoft owned search engine?

tntcoder · 15 Dec 2009 at 17:27

Google do a very good job IMO of managing privacy considering the amount of data they handle, not sure why you would switch.

arknor · 15 Dec 2009 at 17:39

tntcoder said:
Google do a very good job IMO of managing privacy considering the amount of data they handle, not sure why you would switch.

guess you missed what one of the google managers said then?

simpletom · 15 Dec 2009 at 17:44

Do tell. I don't use Bing due to its highly irritating name. Bing. Mnnnggggghhhnh.

Schizophonic · 15 Dec 2009 at 17:45

arknor said:
guess you missed what one of the google managers said then?

please refresh us about this

Bennie-Mac · 15 Dec 2009 at 17:47

I may switch to bing just due to the difference in image results to google when i type in "mega boobs" gets a bit boring seeing the same ones all the time

Dewotter · 15 Dec 2009 at 17:48

I would be tempted not necessarily to switch to Bing, but use it a lot more if all its best features weren't US only.

tntcoder · 15 Dec 2009 at 17:53

arknor said:
guess you missed what one of the google managers said then?

No I didn't. But Schmidt seems more of a business guy than a technologist so I ignored his statement

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I just think they could do a lot worse. I mean they have been quite transparent and released various dashboards control panel things and stating they don't store logs past X number of days or IPs etc. With a company as popular as them, by definition they will get insane amounts of data, and I think they deal with it fairly well.

tntcoder · 15 Dec 2009 at 17:54

FAIL double post

Tee Hee Johnson · 15 Dec 2009 at 17:55

I really didnt like bing, sticking with google

Le_Petit_Lapin · 15 Dec 2009 at 18:13

I love it, claim you are switching because of "Privacy Issues" them completely fail to enlighten us as to what these "Privacy Issues" actually are.

Fail guys, Fail.

Also I would rather have my toes savaged by a ravenous badger than use Bing. Its horrid.

markweatherill · 15 Dec 2009 at 18:32

Why Google stuff with Google, when you can Google it with Bing!!?

Begbie · 15 Dec 2009 at 18:43

No, google still works.

Hellsmk2 · 15 Dec 2009 at 18:44

Bing is a dreadful search engine.

I do a search in Bing and get a load of results that don't give me what I'm looking for. I do the exact same search in Google and get meaningful results. No thanks!

gurusan · 15 Dec 2009 at 18:45

Didn't the manager of google say something a few weeks back along the lines of "Unless you are a criminal you shouldn't need to worry about online privacy."?

Which sent all sorts of people into some sort of paranoia.

dangerstat · 15 Dec 2009 at 18:46

I actually like Bing and I think most of the stick it gets is because it's a Microsoft product and nothing to do with how it functions. I really do think at the moment, on balance it's a better search tool

Yours,

W Gates.

Glaucus · 15 Dec 2009 at 18:49

gurusan said:
Didn't the manager of google say something a few weeks back along the lines of "Unless you are a criminal you shouldn't need to worry about online privacy."?

Which sent all sorts of people into some sort of paranoia.

and support of the patriot law (or something like that) as well as a shocking report by privacy international. I could be totally wrong only heard about it in passing and didn't pay much interest, Google is a pile of **** anyway.