Dear Bing...
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It sounds like what you're saying is that Google does a better job than Bing of automatically identifying you, without you having to do anything, and then applying your own preferences.
Well no, not really. Google is plain, boring interface. I open the page, type in my search and Boom!, I get a response - I'm not distracted by all the shiny knobs and buttons that I really neither want nor need. :)
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[START_RANT] Dear Bing I was recently persuaded to switch to you from your arch-rival and nemesis, Google. I did it because, frankly, I thought it was time for a change. I was bored with the anodyne nothing that Google had become and thought I needed to see pretty pictures to liven up my searching experience. It all started out so well... there you were in all your graphic glory... a neat little menu bar at the top and some rather annoying images at the bottom. Apparently, this is "my news and interests". Trouble is they don't actually match anything I'd be interested in. I'm here to search for something. That's all. You're not my friend or my confidant. If I want news, I'll go to a news channel. If I want information about my hobbies, I'll go to an appropriate web site. And then I see that I can switch you off in settings. Job done, easy-peasy. But, of course, it wasn't. Open the browser later and back you come. Hmm. Ok, must be a cookie issue so I specifically enable IE to allow your cookies and all is well with the world; no more useless fluff on the page. Until the next day when it's back again. :mad: How elephanting hard can it be to allow me to persist my choices for more than a day? I've signed in to my MS account, why not store my preferences there? Oh no, we're Microsoft and we know better than everyone else. Well, elephant you, MS, I'm off back to Google; they may be anodyne but maybe that's part of their charm. They invite me to search without bombarding me with useless, distracting cruft that I have no interest in. So bye-bye Bing - you had your chance and you blew it. I'm sure, in the scheme of things, MS won't give a damn about losing one disgruntled customer; fine, but you've made me a Googler for life. [END_RANT]
You actually made me curious about bing - so I went to check it... I was there for 15 seconds... The moment I saw the 'outlook.com' and 'office online' on the menu bar, I closed it...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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[START_RANT] Dear Bing I was recently persuaded to switch to you from your arch-rival and nemesis, Google. I did it because, frankly, I thought it was time for a change. I was bored with the anodyne nothing that Google had become and thought I needed to see pretty pictures to liven up my searching experience. It all started out so well... there you were in all your graphic glory... a neat little menu bar at the top and some rather annoying images at the bottom. Apparently, this is "my news and interests". Trouble is they don't actually match anything I'd be interested in. I'm here to search for something. That's all. You're not my friend or my confidant. If I want news, I'll go to a news channel. If I want information about my hobbies, I'll go to an appropriate web site. And then I see that I can switch you off in settings. Job done, easy-peasy. But, of course, it wasn't. Open the browser later and back you come. Hmm. Ok, must be a cookie issue so I specifically enable IE to allow your cookies and all is well with the world; no more useless fluff on the page. Until the next day when it's back again. :mad: How elephanting hard can it be to allow me to persist my choices for more than a day? I've signed in to my MS account, why not store my preferences there? Oh no, we're Microsoft and we know better than everyone else. Well, elephant you, MS, I'm off back to Google; they may be anodyne but maybe that's part of their charm. They invite me to search without bombarding me with useless, distracting cruft that I have no interest in. So bye-bye Bing - you had your chance and you blew it. I'm sure, in the scheme of things, MS won't give a damn about losing one disgruntled customer; fine, but you've made me a Googler for life. [END_RANT]
R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
I'm off back to Google
Why not try DuckDuckGo[^] instead? :)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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[START_RANT] Dear Bing I was recently persuaded to switch to you from your arch-rival and nemesis, Google. I did it because, frankly, I thought it was time for a change. I was bored with the anodyne nothing that Google had become and thought I needed to see pretty pictures to liven up my searching experience. It all started out so well... there you were in all your graphic glory... a neat little menu bar at the top and some rather annoying images at the bottom. Apparently, this is "my news and interests". Trouble is they don't actually match anything I'd be interested in. I'm here to search for something. That's all. You're not my friend or my confidant. If I want news, I'll go to a news channel. If I want information about my hobbies, I'll go to an appropriate web site. And then I see that I can switch you off in settings. Job done, easy-peasy. But, of course, it wasn't. Open the browser later and back you come. Hmm. Ok, must be a cookie issue so I specifically enable IE to allow your cookies and all is well with the world; no more useless fluff on the page. Until the next day when it's back again. :mad: How elephanting hard can it be to allow me to persist my choices for more than a day? I've signed in to my MS account, why not store my preferences there? Oh no, we're Microsoft and we know better than everyone else. Well, elephant you, MS, I'm off back to Google; they may be anodyne but maybe that's part of their charm. They invite me to search without bombarding me with useless, distracting cruft that I have no interest in. So bye-bye Bing - you had your chance and you blew it. I'm sure, in the scheme of things, MS won't give a damn about losing one disgruntled customer; fine, but you've made me a Googler for life. [END_RANT]
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[START_RANT] Dear Bing I was recently persuaded to switch to you from your arch-rival and nemesis, Google. I did it because, frankly, I thought it was time for a change. I was bored with the anodyne nothing that Google had become and thought I needed to see pretty pictures to liven up my searching experience. It all started out so well... there you were in all your graphic glory... a neat little menu bar at the top and some rather annoying images at the bottom. Apparently, this is "my news and interests". Trouble is they don't actually match anything I'd be interested in. I'm here to search for something. That's all. You're not my friend or my confidant. If I want news, I'll go to a news channel. If I want information about my hobbies, I'll go to an appropriate web site. And then I see that I can switch you off in settings. Job done, easy-peasy. But, of course, it wasn't. Open the browser later and back you come. Hmm. Ok, must be a cookie issue so I specifically enable IE to allow your cookies and all is well with the world; no more useless fluff on the page. Until the next day when it's back again. :mad: How elephanting hard can it be to allow me to persist my choices for more than a day? I've signed in to my MS account, why not store my preferences there? Oh no, we're Microsoft and we know better than everyone else. Well, elephant you, MS, I'm off back to Google; they may be anodyne but maybe that's part of their charm. They invite me to search without bombarding me with useless, distracting cruft that I have no interest in. So bye-bye Bing - you had your chance and you blew it. I'm sure, in the scheme of things, MS won't give a damn about losing one disgruntled customer; fine, but you've made me a Googler for life. [END_RANT]
:omg: :omg: :omg: Microsoft had a search engine? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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And in Chinese 'Bing' Means 'Disease'[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
That's bing4. The other bings mean different b things.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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You actually made me curious about bing - so I went to check it... I was there for 15 seconds... The moment I saw the 'outlook.com' and 'office online' on the menu bar, I closed it...
Skipper: We'll fix it. Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this? Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
Oh, you're just strange! People Love to be harassed to the point of wanting to kill! That's why ms and google do it so much!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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:omg: :omg: :omg: Microsoft had a search engine? :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
Yes, and it found you. All your computer are belong to them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yes, and it found you. All your computer are belong to them.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
not all yet... I still have some machines without Win10 ;P ;P
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Well no, not really. Google is plain, boring interface. I open the page, type in my search and Boom!, I get a response - I'm not distracted by all the shiny knobs and buttons that I really neither want nor need. :)
There's nothing plain about Google's search page nowadays. I just launched my browser, went to google.com, and I'm now looking at a page that's asking me to login (no thanks), along with asking me to download Chrome (no thanks)...*every* time I load it up.
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Bing is a worthless search engine. Many times it doesn't find anything relevant while the same keywords in Google do the job. I am forced to use it at work and I faaaarking hate it.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF * GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X * Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game. * I'm a puny punmaker.
Coupled with Cortana it is part of an experiment to determine just how far users can be pushed before they start to smash the vdu ( rather than the actual pc ).
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Coupled with Cortana it is part of an experiment to determine just how far users can be pushed before they start to smash the vdu ( rather than the actual pc ).
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
Cortana has been the first service I closed on my Windows Phone, and on PC I still have 7 and rocking.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF * GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X * Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game. * I'm a puny punmaker.
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[START_RANT] Dear Bing I was recently persuaded to switch to you from your arch-rival and nemesis, Google. I did it because, frankly, I thought it was time for a change. I was bored with the anodyne nothing that Google had become and thought I needed to see pretty pictures to liven up my searching experience. It all started out so well... there you were in all your graphic glory... a neat little menu bar at the top and some rather annoying images at the bottom. Apparently, this is "my news and interests". Trouble is they don't actually match anything I'd be interested in. I'm here to search for something. That's all. You're not my friend or my confidant. If I want news, I'll go to a news channel. If I want information about my hobbies, I'll go to an appropriate web site. And then I see that I can switch you off in settings. Job done, easy-peasy. But, of course, it wasn't. Open the browser later and back you come. Hmm. Ok, must be a cookie issue so I specifically enable IE to allow your cookies and all is well with the world; no more useless fluff on the page. Until the next day when it's back again. :mad: How elephanting hard can it be to allow me to persist my choices for more than a day? I've signed in to my MS account, why not store my preferences there? Oh no, we're Microsoft and we know better than everyone else. Well, elephant you, MS, I'm off back to Google; they may be anodyne but maybe that's part of their charm. They invite me to search without bombarding me with useless, distracting cruft that I have no interest in. So bye-bye Bing - you had your chance and you blew it. I'm sure, in the scheme of things, MS won't give a damn about losing one disgruntled customer; fine, but you've made me a Googler for life. [END_RANT]
The trick would be to enable cookies, log in, edit your preferences, log out, edit your preferences and then log in again. After doing all that, you just go to your preferences and edit them. Then you search for something and edit your preferences again. And you're all set. Every once in a while, once a month or so, you just click on preferences and edit them again. And then you're set for life. Really happy with bing, to be honest. But.. too bad the search results are a bit wonky most of the time.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote:
I'm sure, in the scheme of things, MS won't give a damn about losing one disgruntled customer
But ... but ... you were the only user Bing had that lasted several days! (I lasted several minutes)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
I've been a bing user for years! Someday, I'm going to win something with my Microsoft Rewards, I know I will! It was the pictures that got me started. Normally, I enter "google" in the search box but sometimes I search for realz with bing.
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[START_RANT] Dear Bing I was recently persuaded to switch to you from your arch-rival and nemesis, Google. I did it because, frankly, I thought it was time for a change. I was bored with the anodyne nothing that Google had become and thought I needed to see pretty pictures to liven up my searching experience. It all started out so well... there you were in all your graphic glory... a neat little menu bar at the top and some rather annoying images at the bottom. Apparently, this is "my news and interests". Trouble is they don't actually match anything I'd be interested in. I'm here to search for something. That's all. You're not my friend or my confidant. If I want news, I'll go to a news channel. If I want information about my hobbies, I'll go to an appropriate web site. And then I see that I can switch you off in settings. Job done, easy-peasy. But, of course, it wasn't. Open the browser later and back you come. Hmm. Ok, must be a cookie issue so I specifically enable IE to allow your cookies and all is well with the world; no more useless fluff on the page. Until the next day when it's back again. :mad: How elephanting hard can it be to allow me to persist my choices for more than a day? I've signed in to my MS account, why not store my preferences there? Oh no, we're Microsoft and we know better than everyone else. Well, elephant you, MS, I'm off back to Google; they may be anodyne but maybe that's part of their charm. They invite me to search without bombarding me with useless, distracting cruft that I have no interest in. So bye-bye Bing - you had your chance and you blew it. I'm sure, in the scheme of things, MS won't give a damn about losing one disgruntled customer; fine, but you've made me a Googler for life. [END_RANT]
DuckDuckGo[^] FTW
Buckrogerz
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The trick would be to enable cookies, log in, edit your preferences, log out, edit your preferences and then log in again. After doing all that, you just go to your preferences and edit them. Then you search for something and edit your preferences again. And you're all set. Every once in a while, once a month or so, you just click on preferences and edit them again. And then you're set for life. Really happy with bing, to be honest. But.. too bad the search results are a bit wonky most of the time.
WTF??? Why should I have to do all of that? If they can't get it right then elephant them. :mad:
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[START_RANT] Dear Bing I was recently persuaded to switch to you from your arch-rival and nemesis, Google. I did it because, frankly, I thought it was time for a change. I was bored with the anodyne nothing that Google had become and thought I needed to see pretty pictures to liven up my searching experience. It all started out so well... there you were in all your graphic glory... a neat little menu bar at the top and some rather annoying images at the bottom. Apparently, this is "my news and interests". Trouble is they don't actually match anything I'd be interested in. I'm here to search for something. That's all. You're not my friend or my confidant. If I want news, I'll go to a news channel. If I want information about my hobbies, I'll go to an appropriate web site. And then I see that I can switch you off in settings. Job done, easy-peasy. But, of course, it wasn't. Open the browser later and back you come. Hmm. Ok, must be a cookie issue so I specifically enable IE to allow your cookies and all is well with the world; no more useless fluff on the page. Until the next day when it's back again. :mad: How elephanting hard can it be to allow me to persist my choices for more than a day? I've signed in to my MS account, why not store my preferences there? Oh no, we're Microsoft and we know better than everyone else. Well, elephant you, MS, I'm off back to Google; they may be anodyne but maybe that's part of their charm. They invite me to search without bombarding me with useless, distracting cruft that I have no interest in. So bye-bye Bing - you had your chance and you blew it. I'm sure, in the scheme of things, MS won't give a damn about losing one disgruntled customer; fine, but you've made me a Googler for life. [END_RANT]
I always use DuckDuckGo. No ads, no tracking. What else does one need? :)
Steve Naidamast Sr. Software Engineer Black Falcon Software, Inc. blackfalconsoftware@outlook.com
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Bing is a worthless search engine. Many times it doesn't find anything relevant while the same keywords in Google do the job. I am forced to use it at work and I faaaarking hate it.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF * GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X * Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game. * I'm a puny punmaker.
den2k88 wrote:
Bing is a worthless search engine.
Not entirely. From what I hear, Bing finds more nekkid ladies than Google. Now, Google finds me enough nekkid ladies already, so I've never had the need to verify personally. :rolleyes: Of course at work (unless you have a fantastic job) this is rather a moot point. But worthless? Nah!!
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[START_RANT] Dear Bing I was recently persuaded to switch to you from your arch-rival and nemesis, Google. I did it because, frankly, I thought it was time for a change. I was bored with the anodyne nothing that Google had become and thought I needed to see pretty pictures to liven up my searching experience. It all started out so well... there you were in all your graphic glory... a neat little menu bar at the top and some rather annoying images at the bottom. Apparently, this is "my news and interests". Trouble is they don't actually match anything I'd be interested in. I'm here to search for something. That's all. You're not my friend or my confidant. If I want news, I'll go to a news channel. If I want information about my hobbies, I'll go to an appropriate web site. And then I see that I can switch you off in settings. Job done, easy-peasy. But, of course, it wasn't. Open the browser later and back you come. Hmm. Ok, must be a cookie issue so I specifically enable IE to allow your cookies and all is well with the world; no more useless fluff on the page. Until the next day when it's back again. :mad: How elephanting hard can it be to allow me to persist my choices for more than a day? I've signed in to my MS account, why not store my preferences there? Oh no, we're Microsoft and we know better than everyone else. Well, elephant you, MS, I'm off back to Google; they may be anodyne but maybe that's part of their charm. They invite me to search without bombarding me with useless, distracting cruft that I have no interest in. So bye-bye Bing - you had your chance and you blew it. I'm sure, in the scheme of things, MS won't give a damn about losing one disgruntled customer; fine, but you've made me a Googler for life. [END_RANT]
There's genius in simplicity. Microsoft isn't exactly known for genius.
Jeremy Falcon
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Bing is a worthless search engine. Many times it doesn't find anything relevant while the same keywords in Google do the job. I am forced to use it at work and I faaaarking hate it.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF * GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X * Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game. * I'm a puny punmaker.
Actually, I like bing because it finds different stuff than google. When I'm not finding enough stuff, I'll try bing. I also like duckduckgo.com because it uses google, but doesn't remember my preferences, so I get a clean slate.
