Bing Now Nearly As Good As Google — Says Microsoft

An anonymous reader writes "Harry Shum, who oversees research and development for Microsoft's Bing search engine, believes his company has now matched Google's ability to build software platforms that can harness the power of tens of thousands of servers. — 'For many years, we've really tried to play the catch-up game,' Shum says. 'And now we feel that after a lot of effort, we understand search quality problems better than before, and that if you look at Google and Bing, the quality is beginning to be very comparable.' While his comments might be a little biased, many people do share the same opinion. How do you feel about Bing's search results compared to Google's? For example DuckDuckGo, the privacy oriented search engine, uses Bing's back-end and has gained a small following on Slashdot."

Comments

This is stupid.

[Tolkien]

Of course they're nearly as good. They were caught stealing Google's search results.

Re:I Use Bing for the Picture

[girlintraining]

Google seem to go out of its ways to pissed of long time customers.

Truth. I've been setting up to quit every google product ever since they instituted this new "privacy" policy where you have to give up your real name, phone number, and bunches of other personal info, and then they cram 'Plus' down their subscribers throats and all that product does is beg for still more personal info. Add to that the tracking of every search ever done being stored forever, as well as every result a subscriber clicks on, along with working to actively bypass every privacy block on every major web browser: Which they did simultaniously about a month ago now, and I can safely say: Google is evil.

They might have started off with a solid product offering, a set of ethical corporate officers, and an unambiguous policy of doing right by the customer, but like all corporations that 'go public', they've inevitably slid into the 'f*ck them for all they're worth' school of management. I mean, when I have to install a special browser and then connect it to the Tor network, the same network used to provide internet users a measure of freedom from censorship in oppressive regimes, before I even feel comfortable connecting to your server... you've done f*cked up. :(

Goodbye Google.

Re:anecdotally....

[Anonymous Coward]

Aha! You said it was an astro-turf!

I've exposed you as a paid-for shill, man. Only someone who was a shill would say that.

It's all a conspiracy, man. Everyone wants to pay people to post on Slashdot!