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Bing More Effective Than Google?

Posted by timothy on from the bing-your-own-name-to-compare dept.

Xiph1980 writes "Experian Hitwise claims Bing and Bing-powered search to be more effective than Google. The success rate for Bing searches in the U.S. in July was 80.04%, compared to 67.56% for Google. The market watcher defines 'success rate' as the percentage of search queries that result in a visit to a website. Searches made through sites owned by Yahoo, which farmed out search to Bing under a deal struck in 2009, were also more efficient than Google. Those searches yielded a success rate of 81.36%. The claims of Hitwise don't explain why I keep finding things like Microsoft service pack download pages better through google than through bing."

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  1. Re:But did they found what they were looking for? by beelsebob · · Score: 5, Interesting

    More to the point, just because someone doesn't click, doesn't mean it wasn't a success. Google manages to answer a lot of my queries without ever needing to click a link... If I search for "define: bum nuggets" or "234GBP in EUR" I don't click any links.

  2. Re:In other words; people who use Bing trust resul by MasaMuneCyrus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If you let Bing be your search of choice you probably don't discern.

    That's a baseless statement.

    I have tried Bing on many occasions because I'm tired of Google's brokenness and new "features" it keeps rolling out*. Unfortunately, Bing still frequently returns things that I'm not interested in. Conversely, I rarely end up with a Google search that doesn't send me to what I want to find.

    *I am completely fed up with Google's hijacking of my search terms -- Google used to predict what you wanted to search for and suggest it to you. Now it just takes you to where it thinks you want to go, and you're lucky if it'll spit out a "did you mean?" More troublesome is that frequently, where it thinks I want to go is completely ridiculous and nonsensical. Here's a real scenario: I searched for "united states weather radar". Google returned "Showing results for "unted states weather ra". Search instead for "united states weather radar". Who searches for "weather ra"?? This happens several times a day to me.

  3. Re:Try this simple test: by wizrd_nml · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Let's ask two popular search engines the same simple question:

    "Who's the black private dick who's a sex machine to all the chicks?"

    Seriously. Try it on Bing, then try it on Google.

    Game over.

    Try it on Wolfram Alpha. Google and Bing both got shafted.