HACKER Q&A
📣 chenster

Do people still use Bing.com?


Do people still use Bing.com?


  👤 cheshirekatz Accepted Answer ✓
Due to my country's political situation I use the Tor Browser a lot. Bing is the only search engine that reliably works with Tor. I thank them for that.

Google merely claims "your network is sending automated queries" and refuses to work or frustrates with 20 rounds of Captchas with ever-increasing time delays before ultimately rejecting service.

Sites with Cloudflare "protection" are also unusable through Tor Browser. Why use Captchas when you don't allow the user after passing those? I sincerely doubt they cannot tell a "robot" from a human user. Either they are incompetent or simply hostile to Tor users.


👤 dmarlow
Bing is a great search engine. Want to know how I know? I Googled it.

-Colbert

In all seriousness, I use Bing on my laptop and Google on my phone.


👤 PaulHoule
It has been my main search engine for a few years. After Microsoft bought Powerset, Bing became broadly competitive with Google.

In the last two weeks I feel Bing has gotten worse, it often refuses to give authoritative answers for queries like "css grid layout specification" and instead spams you with spam pages with watered down explanations, inserted factual and grammatical errors, and lots of Google™️ ads.

I know why Google does it, not why Microsoft does it.


👤 LargoLasskhyfv
Depending on the place, and what to look for, I often prefer their maps. Furthermore it's often faster to load, maybe because almost no one is using it?

Apart from that, via DuckDuckgo only.


👤 zepto
No, but I do use bing translate through the iOS app.