[hackinthebochs]

I would have agreed with you a few weeks ago. I recently switched my browser to the new Edge and I stuck with Microsoft's default Bing search because fuck Google and all that. I had two occasions in two days where Bing's search frustrated me with their results despite many efforts to tweak the query. I switched over to Google and its first result was exactly what I needed. These were cases where the page didn't contain the phrase I was looking for so it had to interpret/translate it to find the correct information and it did a great job.

A few years ago I felt that Bing and Google search were basically on par. Google has definitely upped the ante regarding search in the last couple of years. It may just be that it does more interpretation than you've come to expect so you need to retrain yourself how to query it. There are also occasions where verbatim search is required for technical topics. But Google's search quality has shown real improvements.