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Microsoft Pushing Bing For Search In Schools, With Ad-Removal Hook

Posted by timothy on from the why-can't-they-send-them-all? dept.

rujholla writes "Microsoft has been trying to push Apple's iPad aside in favor of Surface tablets in schools, and now the Windows giant is looking to take on Google when it comes to search for students. Microsoft is including features such as allowing K-12 schools to remove advertisements from search results and enhanced privacy controls. Is this enough to beat the Google search quality edge? Or does that edge even still exist?"

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  1. Re:Search engines are a commodity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    >Studies show time and time again that there are marginal differences at best between the major search engines.

    What planet are you living on?

    The only 'studies' showing this are only showing that for the most popular queries, there is minimal difference (as this is the relatively trivial-to-clone segment).

    The power of Google is its ability to provide higher quality results for rarer and non-trivial searches. Bing has made no attempt to compete here (and would do a disservice in education).