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I do this too, especially when Google insists it knows my question better than I do. I'll actually Google the word "bing" in this case.

It feels like a vote of no confidence. I would be absolutely shocked if Google's algorithm doesn't have a special alarm bell for "2 dozen search query redefinitions and then they typed fucking 'Bing' into me."

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> I'll actually Google the word "bing" in this case.

That's funny. I'm going to start doing that.

I get frustrated w/ Google when I do a search and the top results do not have a single instance of one of my search terms on their pages. I have no idea why they'd do that. So I switch to Bing in those cases.

Definitely. Bing has some unique technologies, but they can be partially characterized as being "Google 2 years ago" - in bad ways but also in good ways.

This actually sounds like the easier way to tell Google about the dissatisfaction, in full context.

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