# Wow! The latest "Bing" search engine really is quite good! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2012, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-latest-bing-search-engine-really-is-quite-good/624682 "2012-06-10T03:43:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![beowulff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beowulff/32/542_2.png) [@beowulff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beowulff)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-latest-bing-search-engine-really-is-quite-good/624682/21 "2012-06-12T04:49:00Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Why do you hate to say it? Because, I generally think that Microsoft uses their market dominance to sell inferior products. As far as search engines go, I really miss Altavista. I think it’s UI was much better than Google. I also find Google’s “helpfulness” to be really irritating - the inability to search for an exact term without getting results from similar terms is a huge annoyance. I haven’t compared this behavior in Bing yet. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2012, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-latest-bing-search-engine-really-is-quite-good/624682/22 "2012-06-12T06:40:49Z")
I find Bing fine. The results it gives are not much different. Google is getting to be such an octopus that it’s reached the point where using a Microsoft product seems less intrusive. Weird. Bing also came to my rescue a few months ago when I was looking for a particular video. Google insisted on showing page after page of useless youtube results all of which were related to, but were not, the video I was looking for. I had the idea of using Bing since it isn’t associated with youtube. Whaddayknow it immediately came up with what I was looking for. Could Google’s algorithm be biased to sites owned by Google? Ya think? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wow-the-latest-bing-search-engine-really-is-quite-good/624682.md?page=1)