Inferior compared to what, exactly? I have yet to find a good replacement.
I tend to disable moderation settings because I'm an adult right?
Google does a pretty good job distinguishing intent. For example a search for "<actor|actress>" and "<actor|actress> nude" with moderation settings off yield very different results. On Bing? Not so much.
Agreed.
I have switched to duckduckgo as my default search engine a couple of years now, and I constantly find myself having to re-enter the query with a !g in front.
As much as I dislike what Google has become, their search engine quality is still the best, and by a very, very large margin.
Inferior to what Google was 5+ years ago.
and bing is not that far behind for web.
Right now search engines are not a hot topic. But if people smell that google is starting to lose it, you bet they 'll go after his market share like rabid dogs