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May I ask what you did not like about Bing? I've found Google's results better in the past, but Bing certainly to be competent and in some instances superior. There's duckduckgo but my experience has been that its index is simply too small for some requests, although it's been a while since I last used it. Its emphasis on privacy is nice though.

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The search results of Bing seemed very similar to DDG. It seemed to do a mediocre job if figuring out the context of my search. Google seemed to figure out the question behind my query. With Bing the results seemed to feel more like a regular text search where it matched the words I was searching for to semi-random websites. Perhaps google has so much search traffic and they check which links people click on for different searches, so they are able to adapt to put more useful results closer to the top for a given query over time.

Interesting, what are some example queries that we can try on the Bing vs Google challenge that will highlight this? (http://www.bingiton.com)

It was a few months ago so I can't remember the queries. I tried a few to compare now and didn't notice much difference between the two with the examples I tested with.

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