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by Darthy 1053 days ago
Gabriel, could you please clarify once and for all: for "traditional web links", how much do you rely on bing? The user consensus seems to be 100%. What is the official number from you? Thanks!
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The previous statement seems to answer that reasonably well.

> We do use Bing as the primary source for traditional web links, but not for all and even when we do it sometimes looks different in various ways

I don't know that it's reasonable to demand that they provide you an exact percentage.

> but not for all and even when we do it sometimes looks different in various ways

Personally I'd like to know if that means "we have a manual list we re-added". I think what myself and probably many people are most interested in is "do you rely on bing for < 95% of word match searches (no knowledge graph)"

> when we do it sometimes looks different in various ways

IMO this is also vague - I assume this means they're knowledge graph augmented? I really want to know if they have their own indexer (vs a manual list + caching bing results) for text matching.

I also want a % for traditional web links (ignoring all the non-web links pushed to the top). Is it 80%? 60%? 99%? "Primary source" means what?
It’s unlikely to even be possible to break it down as simplistically as a %