Google or Bing?

Poststructural Pub
1

Which do you use?

  • Google.
  • Bing.
  • Either.
  • Other.
0 voters

I still obdurately use Google, for if nothing stands out elsewhere and elsewise - and so far with Bing I don’t know of any overriding advantages - I’m inclined to the familiar and the idea of “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”

I’m interested particularly about Bing users and what the reasons are for the preference, if you would be so kind as to weigh in. This isn’t a competition, as far as I’m concerned; your responses are like scouting info. Even if all you like is the layout, or change for its own sake, that’s all part of what I’m trying to get a handle on. It all works. :slight_smile:

I’ll let this poll run, oh, say, ten days. That oughta do.

2

Bing’s dead man, died in '77. Google it, you’ll see I’m right.

3

Y’know, nobody I’ve come across ever says, “Dude, it’s true. I Binged it.” Whether one or the other, seems that the word “google” will be like “kleenex” whatever the brand.

On the other hand, more fun than saying it is to write “binged” (capital B or no). The jokes about consuming mass quantities beg to be cracked. It’d be an internet trope, if it isn’t already.

…I do hope I’m being as neutral as I’m asking myself to be, which is pretty darn totally.

4

googolplex vs bingplex, I think bingplex is something ya take for flatulence.

5

I use Yahoo. Started using Yahoo before there was a Google, and when I tried Google, I found Yahoo far superior. That was quite awhile ago, but as you feel about Google vs. Bing, I have never seen any reason to switch from Yahoo.

6

Yes, when I started getting on the 'Net, Google was up and running, and that’s the first search engine pond I really swam in, as I recall. I poked around at Yahoo, but I guess I was already imprinted.

But just to be clear, I’m not really seeing this as a “vs.” thing for myself; MSN for one, however, has gotten on the Bing bandwagon and is pushing it pretty stoutly, so I’m wondering what’s up. At first glance it doesn’t look all that different. But, I haven’t been hanging out there, either.

Yes, I suppose I could forge ahead all alone and see for myself, but a conversation is so much more pleasant, don’t you think? :slight_smile:

7

well stop by, we’ll do lunch in Redmond :open_mouth:

8

Do you feel social pressure? :wink:

9

:astonished: ah, social pressure? what social?

oh! I do need to visit the feed store soon.
Roy has free popcorn, too much salt

10

The real tell is that lots of people still
say they’re “Googling” something even
if they’re using Bing.

Though to be fair, we still Xerox things
even though it’s seldom on an actual
Xerox anymore.

11

I use Google. I wouldn’t even know where to find Bing. Maybe I’m using Bing. I don’t know. I do know I use Google at work because our mandatory home page doesn’t have a search engine so I put Google on my Favorites.

I specifically use Google for 3 reasons:

  1. The artwork of how Google may be represented on special days. Art is everything.
  2. Google maps lets a person change the route by clicking and dragging.
  3. That street view thing is sweet when you’re preparing to find a place in rural West Virginia.
12

If you search Google for the word Bing,
Google helpfully tells you where it is:
http://www.bing.com/

  1. The artwork of how Google may be represented on special days. Art is everything.

Bing has you covered there. They change
the background art even more frequently.
Though, I prefer the simplicity of Google’s
search page.

  1. Google maps lets a person change the route by clicking and dragging.

That’s how I got my father to stop using
Mapquest. (Yes, mapquest still exists.)
It would have been stupid of Microsoft
to create maps without this ability, and
they’re not stupid. It looks like they have a
streetview type function called “streedside”
but I can’t find a street for which they have
data.

  1. That street view thing is sweet when you’re preparing to find a place in rural West Virginia.

Uh oh. Here we go again.

13

And I presume Yahoo does the same. Neighborly bunch.

14

I’m still using JumpStation. I don’t understand why none of these yokels ever hired a librarian to make sense of all this stuff, what a waste. I’m for shutting the internet down for a year or two and re-doing it.

15

Who?

Sounds good until it starts looking like eugenics…shudder

16

I used to run searches on Cuil alongside searches on Google. Cuil’s display was not so easy to read as a simple array. I still had it bookmarked when they pulled the plug on it - I think it was in September last year.

In the same way I have run searches on Bing alongside searches on Google. Bing doesn’t get the goods, in my experience.

17

I saw the artwork on bing. The photograph was even a picture of bamboo, something special to me. In this instance, I prefer the artwork of Google to the photography of bing.

18



Me ol’ bam-boo, me ol’ bam-boo. You’d better never bother with me ol’ bam-boo.

19

Anyone who has spent time in Scotland knows that a “bing” is a slag-heap from coal-mining. It’s not an inspiring name for your application.

20

It is also a type of cherry, a Chinese pancake
and a German toy company. I think they were
trying to invoke a bell ringing “Bing! Your search
is ready.” “Mmmmmm, delicious search results.”

Yahoo probably shouldn’t have named themselves
after Aussie comedian Yahoo Serious. Bad PR.