I like Bing. I hate how Google moves from the home page to the initial results page after I start typing. I like my windows to stay in one place until I click something.
I find Bing to be slightly inferior to Google, but only on about 1% of my searches.
In a sense I use Google every day, as Chrome is my browser for everything but the Dope and typing in the Chrome address bar is enabling a Google search.
That said, I’m just as likely to use DuckDuckGo these days.
When Bing came out, the fella tried a side by side comparison. He picked a random thing (I forget what) and searched each. A couple of times. (Different topics)
According to him, Google blew Bing out of the water. He’s much more analytical than I, and I trust his opinion.
I tried it when it first came out and I thought it sucked.
So I just tried it again, “pick module optimization” and then “order fulfillment optimization” - nothing that it recognized, whereas google brings up various articles/papers about it.
It can do lots of things but you can use it like an almanac. Type in the name of a small town or a college for example. It gives you detailed information on it that easier to read than a Wikipedia article or a series of Google returns.
“Nannying” isn’t going far enough. I was searching for a specific phrase yesterday, so I put it in quotes; Google insisted on rephrasing what I had written, resulting in making my search more difficult.
I just tried Bothell Washington. I got population and a map of city boundaries and nothing else.
Did the same with google and got the same map and wiki has a bunch of information, and a bunch of other links.
Conclusion:
wolframalpha still sucks
Edit:
I noticed screen said something like “computation timed out” so I just tried it again
It came back with more info this time, but just stats on crime, income etc. Nice, but hardly a competitor to google
Also, the fact that it timed out the first time is in the “sucks” category