I use Bing Chat a lot when researching things but for regular searches I prefer Google. Bing seems to be great for US based users but I have a hard time finding stuff in my language or my area.
Bing is pretty good for general searching. I've been mostly using it as my primary. I actually really love Bing Chat for this as well - as a langchain LLM, it is able to search for sources before answering, so it's less likely to hallucinate than ChatGPT alone (which only has the sources it was trained on.) However, one should always double check the sources Bing provides as occasionally it misinterprets when restating from what it has found.
When I want technical results which may contain specific errors in quotes, or technical documentation reference for something, I often find myself moving back to Google. Most recently was a very specific component I was researching in quotes - Bing found zero results, Google found one reference to it (and that ended up being enough for me to understand it.)
I believe part of this is related to the lengthy user profile Google almost certainly has on me, in which it knows very well how to fine tune my results based on what I click on. If Bing is doing the same, it will hopefully improve over time for my very specific queries.
I'll be honest, I haven't used anything but Google, probably more out of habit than anything. I didn't realize we had reached the point that Bing was a superior option...
I would love to use Bing, but it doesn’t want to load the homepage on my shitty rural internet. Unless there’s a better version that doesn’t clog up the homepage with images.
I use DuckDuckGo. Oddly, though, I find that results on searches for specific Linux issues I may be running into are almost better on Google. Given the number of people here saying they get better results with something other than Google, I’m curious if anyone else has had similar or contradictory experiences with Linux troubleshooting searches.
I was using bing for a little, switched to DuckDuckGo and now I’m using Kagi. I used the free trial and it was pretty sweet. Just seeing if the $5 a month plan is usable for me. If not I’ll probably switch to a different search engine.
I like using bing if only because I have Google for nearly everything else (phone, email, maps, etc)…nice to spread out the tracking of who knows what about me.
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