A confession and a grumble

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Ophelia

Grenou said:
Hehe ..
It's the name that put me off.
The only 'Bing' in my book is Bing Crosby.
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I always loved Bing Crosby, but it was only in later years that I learned
about him really:(
 
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Trev

Charles Tomaras said:
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I find all this search toolbar stuff to be useless anyway....what's the
big deal? I don't know how it works in the other browsers, but with IE all
you have to do is type whatever you want to search for in the URL line and
hit enter and it will search for it using whatever default search engine
you have selected. Why does anyone need an additional toolbar specifically
for search?
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Saves having to open a browser first But then My Mouse has a search Facility
too. You just highlight the word or words copy click a little button and up
pops your search engine with the results.
 
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Ophelia

I tried it and the search results where less then Yahoo even So its
booted out
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Interesting! Thanks, Trev, I can see hexperiments are in order <g>
 
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Charles Tomaras

I tried it and the search results where less then Yahoo even So its
booted out
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What exactly does LESS mean? I really don't care if I get 20000 results or
50000 results.....I'm more interested in finding what I want. I don't think
I've scrolled further than the 2nd page of links in any browser for as long
as I can remember. If it's not on the first page of results I usually change
my search terms or lose interest in what I was searching for. I'd be happy
with a search engine that returns nothing but the 10 best results or some
other small figure of useful data.

www.bing.com does a great job for most of my general searches. The only time
I find I need to use Google or an alternate is for more scientific type of
computer error message stuff etc. And even that stuff is starting to produce
good results in bing. My bottom line is that Bing finds most everything I
need and I personally find it more pleasing in design and use than the
alternatives.
 
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Trev

Charles Tomaras said:
What exactly does LESS mean? I really don't care if I get 20000 results or
50000 results.....I'm more interested in finding what I want. I don't
think I've scrolled further than the 2nd page of links in any browser for
as long as I can remember. If it's not on the first page of results I
usually change my search terms or lose interest in what I was searching
for. I'd be happy with a search engine that returns nothing but the 10
best results or some other small figure of useful data.

www.bing.com does a great job for most of my general searches. The only
time I find I need to use Google or an alternate is for more scientific
type of computer error message stuff etc. And even that stuff is starting
to produce good results in bing. My bottom line is that Bing finds most
everything I need and I personally find it more pleasing in design and use
than the alternatives.
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Less means it did not find what I looked for
 
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Grenou

Ophelia said:
I always loved Bing Crosby, but it was only in later years that I learned
about him really:(
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Was he a naughty boy? I didn't know.
Loved his voice though.
Not like a search engine at all :)

Grenou
 
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Trev

Charles Tomaras said:
Just curious if it's not personal, what search term were you looking for?
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Myself I know I exist there for I am, But bing does not
 
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Charles Tomaras

Trev said:
Myself I know I exist there for I am, But bing does not
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Ok, guess it's personal, no reason to share with fellow participants on
Usenet.

Sometimes I get the feeling that some of you just don't want to use a
variety of tools...it's all or nothing. Somehow you have no choice but to
use the evil MS OS but wouldn't be caught dead saying anything positive
about any other MS products. BING and GOOGLE are not equals but they each
excel in some areas that the other doesn't. No need to boot something out. I
have a couple of different dictionaries on my book shelf and they are not
equal but complementary.

Bing is going to grow, Yahoo may continue to recede, and Google can't really
get much bigger without incurring the wrath of governance at some point
soon.
 
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