I tried Bing 4 times, and did not get what I was looking for once.
Googling most political matters gets me 4 or 5 pages of right wing blogs that quote Fox News or The Blaze verbatim.
My default search engine is GoodSearch. It’s basically Yahoo, but each search sends a little money to a charity of your choosing.
No, that’s Google’s syntax for searching just a particular site. To do a google search on ddg, it’s just “!g” somewhere in the search field. !gi for images, !gm for maps, !a for amazon, !w for wikipedia, !wa for wolfram alpha, etc.
ddg has been my default for a couple years now. It’s really handy for the bang syntax alone, being able to search amazon or wikipedia from my browser’s search bar rather than having to navigate to the site first. The lack of filter bubbles and tracking is just icing on the cake.
Just got another scammer a few minutes ago that I wasn’t able to get to in time, so it went to voice mail. Basically it said: “Time to update your google account, to do so press 1 now.” I’m guessing by pressing 1, it reroutes you to where they can bill you for a certain number that it shows you called.
I only use bing for the points (with adblock enabled) and all I do is go to the images and middle click them en-masse and keep repeating it.
Quicker than doing manual searches.
OK, I did a test. I have an acquaintance who has a name that is unique in the world, and not a high visibility internet user. I searched for his name in several search engines.
In Google, all the ten hits on the first page are relevant to him.
On Bing, only the first two were, before drifting off into a Goofy-land of similar names.
In Startpage, allegedly resending Google, only the first four were relevant.
On Yahoo, similar relevancy to Google, but several irrelevant similars mixed in the top five.
Google wins by a huge margin.