My literal first thought was "do I seriously need to use bing now?".

Supermancho 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Bing has been better than Google for some time. Again, it's embarrassing for them to sacrifice marketshare for paid results and an intermediate-form AI fad that will turn into the same paid result funnel.

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mrweasel 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Bing is surprisingly not to bad. I don't use it anymore, but it's been providing better results than Google for sometime.

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RyanOD 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I hear people cite other search engines as "better" all the time. Better how?

	▲	edelbitter 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		e.g. for a two keyword search, Google & DDG return results containing a similar (but more at the moment, more popular, so I understand why they do this) keyword as the first one, and no relation whatsoever with the second. Any search that manages to actually show results related to both of my input terms get the "better" award from me.

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sphars 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is a 99% chance (IMO) that Microsoft is going to go the same route as Google here

	▲	vitorsr 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Microsoft has already gone down this road some three years ago... https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/02/07/reinventing-sear...

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tedd4u 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

DuckDuckGo uses the bing index/backend. I’ve had it as default for 5-8 years. Probably once a day I’ll add the !g to pop it over to Google. Works great. I search a lot, many different types of queries. When I pop over to Google it’s usually a Boolean query looking for a needle in a haystack (that one comment somewhere where someone is using the same combination of two or three rare items together).

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BrunoBernardino 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

While there are good options like DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, Ecosia, there are plenty of (better) alternatives, where you're not the product [1], I'd recommend looking into!

[1]: https://alternativeto.net/software/google-search/?license=co...