[hedora]

Google's been losing in blind comparisons for over a decade (experiments:

- Both have google branding -> competitor wins

- Neither has google branding -> competitor wins

- One (chosen randomly) has google branding -> google branding wins

Yahoo search consistently beat them for a few years before Microsoft bought it and turned it into Bing. It doesn't surprise me at all that Yandex is also producing better results.

[simondotau]

I participated in this kind of experiment in 2007 comparing Google to Bing, and ho boy, the Bing results were abysmal.

(Then again Google results today are so abysmal that it wouldn’t surprise me if Bing is now dramatically better.)

[gcanyon]

Even when Bing was specifically advertising their head-to-head site, every time I tried it, google won. I don't remember when this was -- maybe 2012? -- but I tried it at least a dozen times, and Bing didn't win even once.

[bluGill]

2012 was 11 years ago. things have changed, i'm now happy with bing being equal to google. i mostly use duckduckgo.

[tomjen3]

Bing beats Google for certain queries - most notably when I invoke the AI chat.

And that’s going to be the challenge going forward. For non destination queries, that’s those that are not about finding a specific website, ai search is just so much better.

Kagi had a summerize search results at the top of their results page for a long time.

[jasonjmcghee]

Verizon bought Yahoo, not Microsoft- it was never turned into bing. interestingly, a years ago they became independent again.

[tech234a]

To my knowledge, Microsoft never bought Yahoo!, but Yahoo! does use Bing for its searches.