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Bing is an alternative to Google Search, that took billions of dollars to build

I used it, it's OK, not really any better overall. Slightly worse in some areas and slightly better in others

The problem seems to be that the incentives set up by Google flooded the web with low quality information

Also, some people probably LIKE some of the low quality information ... but I still think there was a fair amount of mismanagement

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Bing was unironically fantastic at searching for adult content but they hobbled that through the years.

Yandex

The memes were excellent promotion for Bing being the place where you find uncensored results.

“Split-face” would immediately return the horrible accident (don’t Google it, really - and yes, pun intended), “Scientists” would actually return non-editorialized scientists… Microsoft could have been farther and marketed Google as the colourful kindergarten that you give your children access to, whereas journalists and researchers would use Bing. But they folded.

I use Bing everyday, via Ecosia. It's is amazing how far Bing has come. Overall I'd say that Bing is the better search engine today. The only consistent fail for me is when I forget the address of "The True Size Of" website (www.thetruesize.com), Bing refuses to find that URL, while it's the first result on Google. Other than that, Bing will find anything that Google does.

To this day Bing fails to find Microsoft Learn content, their own stuff!

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