CP&LERR Fan Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 . My favorite Search engine is Google what's your's vote up top. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vortexfan Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 Neither Google nor Bing are web browsers...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCrypt Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 I think you and I have different ideas of what a web browser is. A web browser is like Internet Explorer or Google Chrome. I think the word you're searching for is search engine. I would also add an 'other' option if I were you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CP&LERR Fan Posted July 17, 2013 Author Share Posted July 17, 2013 Neither Google nor Bing are web browsers...... Opps I meant search engines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcgoble3 Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 Huh? The thread title asks about web browsers, but the poll lists search engines. Which is it? EDIT: (insert generic complaint about slow internet connection resulting in triple ninja) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CP&LERR Fan Posted July 17, 2013 Author Share Posted July 17, 2013 I think you and I have different ideas of what a web browser is. A web browser is like Internet Explorer or Google Chrome. I think the word you're searching for is search engine. I would also add an 'other' option if I were you. Like I just said to Vortexfan I messed up and meant to say search engines Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malem Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 There's a previous discussion about favorite web browsers: http://www.KICentral.com/forums/index.php?/topic/26679-favorite-browser I take it you meant to ask about search engines, though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CP&LERR Fan Posted July 17, 2013 Author Share Posted July 17, 2013 Yes I did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCrypt Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 You know you can edit the topic name and the poll, right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcgoble3 Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 You know you can edit the topic name and the poll, right? To do so, click edit on the first post, then click "Use Full Editor". From there you can edit the thread title and click another link to edit the poll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdawg1998 Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 This thread is useless anyways, so far it's 6 votes to 0 and we all know Google will ultimately be winning 20 - 2 within a matter of hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CP&LERR Fan Posted July 17, 2013 Author Share Posted July 17, 2013 This thread is useless anyways, so far it's 6 votes to 0 and we all know Google will ultimately be winning 20 - 2 within a matter of hours. Ok I fixed it, and I know Google will win but Of course Commercials on TV say that Bing is the best just wanted to see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ride On_17 Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 I like the "cool" appearance of Bing. While Google is a classic and a great source, I can't really explain it but Bing has a modern, updated feel to it. I love Google and Bing equally as search engines, but I guess when it comes to little details like this, I'd have to go with Bing. But only by a tiny fraction of a percent. Don't get me wrong, I still love Google. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcgoble3 Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 Of course Commercials on TV say that Bing is the best Bing claims to be better than Google based on survey results. I took one of those surveys. It was rigged in Bing's favor in two ways. In the first case, the Google and Bing search queries presented to me in screenshots were not identical. Typically, the Google search used "site:www.microsoft.com" in the query to restrict the search to the "www.microsoft.com" subdomain, while the Bing query used Bing's native option to search the Microsoft site, which encompassed all subdomains of "microsoft.com". Usually the most helpful results were on subdomains such as "support.microsoft.com" that showed up only in the Bing results because of the way the Google query was formulated. A proper comparison should have used "site:microsoft.com" in the Google query. In the second, more blatant case, the screenshot of the Google query had been outright photoshopped. They had searched for something totally different on Google, taken a screenshot of the results, then edited the query in the search box at the top of the results to match the Bing query. Anyone familiar with the way Google displays their results could identify the fact that it had been edited immediately, because Google displays the words matching the search query in bold, and the bolded words had nothing to do with the query shown. I should add that the fact that all search queries, even the "original" ones on Google pre-Photoshop, were of the Microsoft website or for Microsoft products such as Xbox. That's pretty good evidence that the survey was conducted by, or at least paid for by, Microsoft. So it was not an independent survey. The survey in question asked me to rate the Bing and Google results independently, then indicate which was more useful and to what degree, then gave me a freeform text box to make any comments I felt worth mentioning. Once I began to realize it was rigged, I used that text box to say so several times. After one particularly nasty comment, when I clicked "next", I was told that I had "screened out" of the survey. That usually means that they are looking for a certain number of responses from each demographic group and that quota has been met, but screen-outs normally occur at the beginning after just a few demographic questions, not in the middle of the meat of the survey. I suspect they had a blacklist of words set up where if somebody used one of those words in the comment box, they could be fairly sure that the person taking the survey had guessed it had been rigged, and the system would kick them out immediately. I must have tripped that blacklist with my last comment, which used a few words distinctly related to editing and rigging that I had not used in my comments on prior comparisons. Anyway, the point of all of this is that if someone tells you that survey results prove Bing is better than Google, don't believe that for one second. It's an outright lie. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcgoble3 Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 I think I killed the thread... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon Bombay Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 There was a time, I think before it was all called "bing," that the Microsoft maps were somewhat better than Google maps because they had the overhead, angled view. That was the only time I ventured over there. Now, Google Maps is 10x better. I was forced to use Bing maps once. It's a long story, but at one point I owned a Blackberry Playbook tablet. It's the worst tablet on the market, but I got a great deal on it. My old HTC Thunderbolt was dead and I needed a map. I took the Playbook into a McDonalds and hoped on the Wi-Fi. The only maps application the playbook had available was for Bing Maps that couldn't find my location and couldn't find the address I searched for. Through the tablet's miserable web browser, I was able to get on Google Maps and was set up in minutes. I've never had a reason to use Bing - if I can't find it on Google I usually don't find it on Bing. Like almost everything Microsoft seems to do - Bing is their own version with copycat features that don't work nearly as well as the product they try to emulate. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thrill_Biscuit Posted July 23, 2013 Share Posted July 23, 2013 Bing is marketed as a "Decision Engine," rather than as a "Search Engine." I've yet to really understand what that means exactly, but they both get me what I'm looking for quite quickly and easily. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kat Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Google! Never used Bing and never plan to Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ride On_17 Posted August 5, 2013 Share Posted August 5, 2013 Man, I didn't think I'd be the only person to vote for Bing! Before all the haters come after me, it really was just a toss up between the two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlyingEagle Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 Google is my favorite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdawg1998 Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 The thing is, I started using Google and never had the idea to change to Bing. It seemed pointless to me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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