Which search engine do you prefer, Bing or Google.
I have both of course. Google is my chosen Home Page on Chrome, but I use Bing almost all the time.
Bing is superbly colorful with the daily background pictures of most interesting subjects, which are a delight to see. Also I find Bing perfectly satisfactory for all kinds of searching and general browsing. It has not let me down yet.
As my screen is set to return to the page last selected, then I always select Bing before going into Standby or shutting down. On return, Bing comes up.
Why don`t I use Bing as my Home Page ? I guess no reason at all, except I just have Google selected. No big deal really.
Google, Startpage.com or Duckduckgo depending on what I am looking for..
To me Bing is just for pretty pictures, the searches with it are no where near good enough, and I hide it in EVERY optional Windows Update I come across it.
Google always gives the best results for me personally.
People may object to the amount of data they gather about their users, but Google certainly know how to use that data to give me exactly what I'm looking for.
StartPage and IXQuick as mentioned in my post 3 and re-mentioned as being favored in this thread are both entirely Dutch and located in the Netherlands. They have no ties with any US jurisdiction or privacy intrusions.
This should be attractive to our American users and dispense with the variety of privacy intrusions that Google and Bing are widely recognized at practicing.
Use DuckDuck for my homepage, but google gives a better search, imho.
if I don't like my ddg results or there are none I use !g so I guess of the two I prefer Goo over Bing but I don't sign in to goo and use https version
if I don't like my ddg results or there are none I use !g so I guess of the two I prefer Goo over Bing but I don't sign in to goo and use https version
Good way to do it, I always forget to. When you use !g can google still do all that tracking / data mining?
Good way to do it, I always forget to. When you use !g can google still do all that tracking / data mining?
if you don't have secure search (and other secure ddg settings) set or you are signed into google you might be but at that point it's out of duckduckgo's hands as you are on a different site (bangs (!) bring you to the actual site it's just pluging into the open search protocol similar to how browsers' search boxes do)
This just goes to prove that if Google and Bing withdraw their kindness from all these other odd-job search engines, they will fade away into the sunset and die gracefully.
I cannot see Google or Bing doing that. Privacy has become a big issue and search engines which do not track are getting more customers now at the expense of Google and co.