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Remember Microsoft and Sendo? (You can google for it. I said google, not bing.)

bing and google return good results for "Sendo."

You say that as if they where being evil, but sometimes their services are the most relevant. I do find kind of funny that neither show Office 365 for that query, and if you go looking for it, only Google shows the official service's site first.

I just tried it, and they both returned the official site first. Amusingly, Google's related searches were all regarding the Office 365 product, while Microsoft recommended "OpenOffice" as the first related search. I begin to wonder if Microsoft isn't intentionally downgrading their own products in results to stave off anti-trust attention.

You say that as if they where being evil, but sometimes their services are the most relevant. I do find kind of funny that neither show Office 365 for that query, and if you go looking for it, only Google shows the official service's site first.

I just tried it, and they both returned the official site first. Amusingly, Google's related searches were all regarding the Office 365 product, while Microsoft recommended "OpenOffice" as the first related search. I begin to wonder if Microsoft isn't intentionally downgrading their own products in results to stave off anti-trust attention.

You really should try both side by side. I use Yahoo (I like the UI better) and Google and frankly lately Google doeth sucketh the big wet titty on certain searches. Reviews? you end up with a dozen shopping sites that have stuck the word "review" in their page. With Yahoo I actually find a review for what I'm looking for within the top three searches.

I find Google a little better, but you might be getting different results. Notice how the second result (at least for me, third on Incognito window) shows a review with its corresponding stars and a relevant summary. Bing is giving me mostly video reviews on youtube from whiny kids.

Looking for something a little old, like say info about some part that landed in your lap?

I see comparable results. Do you have a specific search query that shows Google being significantly worse than Bing?

The problem with Google is two fold. One they favor their own sites whenever possible, which means they are more likely to give you crap from their sites than something useful from a potential competitor.

You say that as if they where being evil, but sometimes their services are the most relevant. I do find kind of funny that neither show Office 365 for that query, and if you go looking for it, only Google shows the official service's site first.

So you stick with Google if that is what makes you happy and works for you, but using both I'd say the Yahoo/Bing searches at least for the stuff i'm searching for is better.

Doesn't matter which you choose, why?, because the one that will search the best for you is the one you use the most, as your queries will start getting optimized for it and the site you use will customize the search results according to your extensive search history, a luxury that a search engine you barely use won't have.

You really should try both side by side. I use Yahoo (I like the UI better) and Google and frankly lately Google doeth sucketh the big wet titty on certain searches. Reviews? you end up with a dozen shopping sites that have stuck the word "review" in their page. With Yahoo I actually find a review for what I'm looking for within the top three searches.

I find Google a little better, but you might be getting different results. Notice how the second result (at least for me, third on Incognito window) shows a review with its corresponding stars and a relevant summary. Bing is giving me mostly video reviews on youtube from whiny kids.

Looking for something a little old, like say info about some part that landed in your lap?

I see comparable results. Do you have a specific search query that shows Google being significantly worse than Bing?

The problem with Google is two fold. One they favor their own sites whenever possible, which means they are more likely to give you crap from their sites than something useful from a potential competitor.

You say that as if they where being evil, but sometimes their services are the most relevant. I do find kind of funny that neither show Office 365 for that query, and if you go looking for it, only Google shows the official service's site first.

So you stick with Google if that is what makes you happy and works for you, but using both I'd say the Yahoo/Bing searches at least for the stuff i'm searching for is better.

Doesn't matter which you choose, why?, because the one that will search the best for you is the one you use the most, as your queries will start getting optimized for it and the site you use will customize the search results according to your extensive search history, a luxury that a search engine you barely use won't have.

You really should try both side by side. I use Yahoo (I like the UI better) and Google and frankly lately Google doeth sucketh the big wet titty on certain searches. Reviews? you end up with a dozen shopping sites that have stuck the word "review" in their page. With Yahoo I actually find a review for what I'm looking for within the top three searches.

I find Google a little better, but you might be getting different results. Notice how the second result (at least for me, third on Incognito window) shows a review with its corresponding stars and a relevant summary. Bing is giving me mostly video reviews on youtube from whiny kids.

Looking for something a little old, like say info about some part that landed in your lap?

I see comparable results. Do you have a specific search query that shows Google being significantly worse than Bing?

The problem with Google is two fold. One they favor their own sites whenever possible, which means they are more likely to give you crap from their sites than something useful from a potential competitor.

You say that as if they where being evil, but sometimes their services are the most relevant. I do find kind of funny that neither show Office 365 for that query, and if you go looking for it, only Google shows the official service's site first.

So you stick with Google if that is what makes you happy and works for you, but using both I'd say the Yahoo/Bing searches at least for the stuff i'm searching for is better.

Doesn't matter which you choose, why?, because the one that will search the best for you is the one you use the most, as your queries will start getting optimized for it and the site you use will customize the search results according to your extensive search history, a luxury that a search engine you barely use won't have.

You really should try both side by side. I use Yahoo (I like the UI better) and Google and frankly lately Google doeth sucketh the big wet titty on certain searches. Reviews? you end up with a dozen shopping sites that have stuck the word "review" in their page. With Yahoo I actually find a review for what I'm looking for within the top three searches.

I find Google a little better, but you might be getting different results. Notice how the second result (at least for me, third on Incognito window) shows a review with its corresponding stars and a relevant summary. Bing is giving me mostly video reviews on youtube from whiny kids.

Looking for something a little old, like say info about some part that landed in your lap?

I see comparable results. Do you have a specific search query that shows Google being significantly worse than Bing?

The problem with Google is two fold. One they favor their own sites whenever possible, which means they are more likely to give you crap from their sites than something useful from a potential competitor.

You say that as if they where being evil, but sometimes their services are the most relevant. I do find kind of funny that neither show Office 365 for that query, and if you go looking for it, only Google shows the official service's site first.

So you stick with Google if that is what makes you happy and works for you, but using both I'd say the Yahoo/Bing searches at least for the stuff i'm searching for is better.

Doesn't matter which you choose, why?, because the one that will search the best for you is the one you use the most, as your queries will start getting optimized for it and the site you use will customize the search results according to your extensive search history, a luxury that a search engine you barely use won't have.

And it's in the summary for the same page in Bing, at the 5th position. You can see the two searches side-by-side.

Here are your unbiased results.
http://www.bing-vs-google.com/?q=Libre+Office

Yeah, Bing just won that one.

It really is too bad you can't just use both engines at the same time.
http://www.bing-vs-google.com/?q=slashdot

It took me five minutes on http://www.bing-vs-google.com/ one day to realize how bad Bing is compared to Google.

I use this ocasionaly to check up bing performance an dit hasn't made me switch yet. (far from it actually)

http://www.bing-vs-google.com/

I find that Bing falls for marketing scams and SEO much worse than Firefox. Random download sites and outright scams show up in Bing first with lots of searches, while Google is much more successful at ignoring marketingese and just giving you the site you want.

For example, searching for Wii homebrew gives:
Google:

1. Homebrew Channel page on Wiibrew (very relevant starting place)
   • Main Page of Wiibrew (probably THE best result)
2. Wii homebrew on Wikipedia (actually a pretty bad page, but understandably high result)
   • Homebrew Channel page on Wikipedia (decent)
3. Some random broken site that probably sucks, but has a good domain name
4. The Homebrew Channel's homepage

Bing:

1. Some random German wii homebrew site (not "official" in any way), but with a good domain
2. Wikipedia entry
3. Another random German homebrew site
4. A random Spanish homebrew site
5. An affiliate of a huge (and successful) scam getting people to pay for homebrew and warez tools
6. Another affiliate of the scam
7. Another affiliate

So basically, people looking for Wii homebrew and using Bing are at a much higher chance of getting scammed. Seriously, Wiibrew isn't even in the first page of results.

Going the other way, searching for the name of the scam (homebreware) yields (antiscam = site that explains that homebreware is a scam):
Google: antiscam, antiscam, antiscam, scam, scam, antiscam, scam, ...
Bing: scam, scam, scam, scam, scam, scam, scam...

Someone using Bing and doublechecking on what they're about to buy isn't going to remotely realize they're being scammed.

Reasons? Sure. Any result on things is skewed if it relates to MS. How can you call that "reliable"? There's a reason they call it a decision engine and not a search engine. Also, why do I want something that's been rammed down my throat as a default setting? I'd rather choose my own thing not have *constant* hijacking during every IE security update. Just wait for people to do bing bombs as they call "google bombs", and you'll see even more manipulation.

Also, the layout is annoying. Why not have news links up at the top? Why do I give a crap about related searches being linked at the side as opposed to next to each item? Why do I need microsoft self-sponsoring when I search for microsoft on bing? I don't get that with google. Also it sure is interesting that very few search results show up when I put the term google into bing, isn't it?.

I can keep searching more reasons if you want, but the end result is that the quality of results and accuracy is piss poor. Dogpile still beats results/accuracy of bing constantly.

And even funnier - search for "Why is Microsoft Windows so expensive?" and the fifth result is a slashdot article entitled: "Why is OSS Commercial Software So Expensive?"!

Try this : why are macs so awesome?

Top 2:

ALL RESULTS
1-9 of 1,370,000 resultsÂ

        1) Why Macs Suck - Funny videos

          2) Why are Macs so crap at gaming?

Check also: Why openoffice is awesome?

You will get "Why OpenOffice.org can't compete with Microsoft Office" as top result!
This same search in google doesn't even show this link on the search results.