Bing Now Nearly As Good As Google — Says Microsoft 405
An anonymous reader writes "Harry Shum, who oversees research and development for Microsoft's Bing search engine, believes his company has now matched Google's ability to build software platforms that can harness the power of tens of thousands of servers. — 'For many years, we've really tried to play the catch-up game,' Shum says. 'And now we feel that after a lot of effort, we understand search quality problems better than before, and that if you look at Google and Bing, the quality is beginning to be very comparable.' While his comments might be a little biased, many people do share the same opinion. How do you feel about Bing's search results compared to Google's? For example DuckDuckGo, the privacy oriented search engine, uses Bing's back-end and has gained a small following on Slashdot."
Re:Not So Much a Rules Change (Score:5, Funny)
Mod +1 Profitable!
I propose a gesture of peace and reconciliation!!! (Score:5, Funny)
I propose that we in the linux community dispatch a team of our disappointment-hardened counselors in order to help him work through the stages of the inevitable grieving process in an efficient and healthy manner...
Re:Verbatim search (Score:5, Funny)
Thank you very, very much. I didn't know about that feature and the constant miscorrection was driving me insane. No, Google, I don't want pictures of a "boy tucked in bed", thank you.
Re:Holy self-reference! (Score:5, Funny)
Some people have no idea how to use a search engine.
And some people search for more complex issues that 'pony midget sex video". (211,000 hits in Google).
Re:Holy self-reference! (Score:5, Funny)
It helps if you add the name of the pony you'd like to fuck
pony midget sex video rainbow dash -> 11,200 results
More to the point, use the damn video search if you want videos.
pony midget sex rainbow dash -> 5,770 result
I swear. It's like people have no fucking clue how to find porn anymore.
Re:No (Score:2, Funny)
I just tried six queries of my own. Bing got five of the six, whereas Google didn't get a single one.
Now, I'm not going to make any grandiose claims, but clearly Bing is better.
Re:Holy self-reference! (Score:5, Funny)
Could be worse, it could run on BSoD.
Right (Score:4, Funny)
And Zune was every bit as good as the iPod.
Re:Microsoft confessed? (Score:5, Funny)
Don't get all happy because Microsoft has temporarily decided not to abuse us. It's only temporary.