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by simondotau 1004 days ago
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.)
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gcanyon 1004 days ago
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.
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bluGill 1003 days ago
2012 was 11 years ago. things have changed, i'm now happy with bing being equal to google. i mostly use duckduckgo.
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tomjen3 1004 days ago
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.

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