[DanBC]

> Google better be really careful because

Sadly, you are in a minority. Google's results are excellent for most people.

I used to use + often. We know that the + operator was rarely used, and most of those times it wasn't used correctly. (Of all searches, only 1 in 600 were correctly using the + operator.)

Being outside Google (and not able to see their data) is frustrating, but they have a lot of numbers and they do this stuff because they can show it helps most people.

[OGinparadise]

>>Sadly, you are in a minority. Google's results are excellent for most people.

Sadly, you are in a minority. Bing's results are excellent for most people. Slap a Google logo and I'm willing to bet that most people wouldn't tell the difference. It's the Google brand that is golden, at least so far. But lately people are talking and questioning their honesty.

[jmillikin]

Bing's own comparison site "bing it on" shows that most users prefer Google's results[1], even though the comparison uses results modified to favor Bing[2].

[1] http://blog.paulnshapiro.com/bingiton-google-wins/

[2] http://www.punditpress.com/2013/02/the-bing-challenge-yes-it...

[OGinparadise]

dear Googler, you made me waste a bit of time: trying to do that by using tweets isn't accurate for obvious reasons. Power user vs normal user, motivation to tweet, bias against Microsoft etc. The other post was confusing as hell, I couldn't make out his point. Absolutely no data, other than suggesting that the poll was rigged. It may very well be.

You may want to check this http://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2013/04/... from http://searchengineland.com/users-prefer-google-even-when-15... It's impartial, afaik, and almost 70% like Bing results with the Google logo vs around 30% o Google results with the Bing logo. Amazing since that case shows that people liked the Bing results and had their preferred company's logo on Google. (Not sure if Bing had anything to do with that study though)

Either way, if Bing narrowed the preference to 10%-20%, it's a great feat. Personally I find Bing lacking on obscure terms but most people wouldn't care.

[DanBC]

Well, you missed the point widely.

In my sentence "Google's results are excellent for most people." I could have said "Modern web search engine results are excellent for most people" - I didn't because this is a discussion of how Google (and only Google) is failing for a number of people.