[userbinator]

It's been getting worse for years, and I'm starting to find Bing is sometimes more useful these days.

The irony is that it's getting worse at the sort of detailed, niche topics (electronics, automotive, and related fields) that one would really want a search engine for, while I suspect more popular and trendy information which is far easier to discover is going to be easier to find with it. The fact that it randomly ignores words in the search query is the most infuriating part (what the fuck did you think I put that word in the search query for?)

Less than a week ago I got hit with the CAPTCHA hellban for using inurl: and going more than 3 pages into the results, which must be a record time as I have triggered that in the past but only after many many intense searches. I switched to Bing and found what I was looking for on the first page.

I also have a high suspicion sometimes that it is actively trying to hide relevant results from me.

[2rsf]

I was also surprised to get better results using Bing in more than one use case