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I think people are missing a key point here . This is included with the pro plus installer which is exclusively a business product. My company installs a bunch of tracking and other crap software on my windows machine in the name of data privacy, security and other bullshit. All it does is makes my i7 laptop with 16 gigs of ram behave like a slow crappy laptop. So if you have an issue with this complain to your work organization because somebody higher up made a decision to go with Pro plus .

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Have you ever tried to 'bing' a python error you've ran into? This is specifically bad because it's a business product meaning that trying to get work done will only get harder.

I use Bing regularly, I made it my default search engine just for kicks about 2 months ago just to see how terrible it was and for the most part I can't even tell the difference. Sometimes I can't find what I want and then I search Google and it can't find it either. I can think of exactly two times in the last two months when Google found something Bing couldn't. One was when I searched for Hearthstone cardback browser and Bing couldn't find the link to it, but Google did, but it was like halfway down the page. I actually prefer not giving Google any more info about me and still getting decent search results.

Honestly the worst part about Bing is coworkers seeing I use it. It's kind of embarrasing, but it's stupid that it is because it's actually a good search engine.

The truth about this experiment is you don't know what you are missing on both ends because you only attempt to find the missing item.

> the worst part about Bing is coworkers seeing I use it.

I use Bing Images (because I don't like DuckDuckGo's image search) and link people there sometimes, and I used to have a Bing-branded wallpaper just to call attention to that there is a choice. Didn't even work, nobody around me finds that weird, many already use DDG or chose to remain with Google.

Bing seems to have switched away from branding a Bing logo onto their wallpapers, though, so that's no longer a thing.

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