Google vs. Bing

Episode Description: Around 90% of all web searches are done using Google. This video talks about how they grew to control the market and the struggles Microsoft has had in trying to catch up to them.

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[mikeyoung]

I think the thing that helped Google dominate the search engine business is its simplicity. Just a logo, a search bar, and maybe a few of those frequent link icons. All on a white background. No scroll bars, no app icons, no links to today's news, etc. Google never tried to be a portal like Bing or Yahoo, yet I bet a majority of users have Google as their default home page. Microsoft and Yahoo still don't get it. It's not about what's under the covers. It's about the first thing you see.

[SeanLamb-I-Am]

One of the big reasons for Google's adoption in the early days was its exceptionally streamlined user interface. Google was the first search page that showed the search results and only the search results on the page. They didn't have a ton of ads or GIFs all over the page. It was clean. It worked.

[youngbubbiesclub]

At this point, it is Google's game to lose. For a few years, searches have been getting worse and worse. The first page or two or three are just sponsored links, and then you only get the most standard links to wikipedia or reddit. The search engine is decaying and it is leaving room for someone to step in and take marketshare from them.

[rickyspanish]

Actually, I wouldn't write off "Bing with AI" all too fast. They do have a qualitative advantage, that may change the game over the next few months. Also, I noticed people have started to talk more negatively about the quality of Google's search results recently. They seem to focus more on making their search product better for the advertisers, but less so for the consumers, and in combination with Microsoft's AI advantage, that may yet prove to be a costly mistake.

[gravelstudios]

I work in tech, and I find that if I need to get Microsoft specific information (such as researching obscure Windows features, etc.) Bing is more likely to give me the info I need.

[sonoftheredfox]

I loved having multiple search engines to choose from back in the day. It was cool seeing all the different ones mentioned, and I know that I used every single one of them at one time or another, especially, Altavista, Excite, and AskJeeves. Their different approaches to searching gave different result sets that actually made it easier to find information, at least from my experience.

[astrailiaous_Sempticreed]

If bing disabled safe search from the start, a lot more of its searches would be more accurate.

[moechinatsu]

Recently I like using Bing, especially Bing Chat. Google search result sometimes doesnt really answer my search, because the top result is just good at seo and then full of unimportant stuff. Say, you want to search for a recipe. With Bing Chat it will give you the recipe, but Google top result will have full page of some random story (and ads) and then at the bottom you will find the recipes

[Queleb]

12:35 I was one of the people who switched from google to bing (and even chrome to edge) and I've actually liked it so far - Bing search (and bing image creator) are super cool and useful for me, although I'm not sure if it's quite enough to pull a large portion of people over.

[lucypalacios]

There’s something so comforting about a Company Man video. Can’t explain it 🥰

[codyprine]

In the late 90s, Yahoo was my go-to search engine, but after Google launched, I migrated to them and have not thought much about the others since.

[veronica]

I’ve used bing a couple of times and I don’t know if I noticed a significant difference from Google. I think the problem is that Google is the default on my safari browsers (like if I type in the address bar it uses google) and I’ve always been too lazy to switch things lol

[Multiverse_Threat]

Personally i like using bing just to get microsoft rewards

[satelliteprime]

As a former Bing user due to Bing Rewards (and Google user before that), I actually use Presearch nowadays because it's modular - letting me search individual sites or engines - Google and Bing included, with a single click and more accurately than Google's advanced search - it's also really simple to pick which site searches I want on the list. But the Presearch results themselves are usually best for me. I personally thing the accuracy of Google results has gone down in recent years in various places - but their image search is still the best one to me. Reverse image search is *especially* convenient.

[Markimark]

Even though I prefer Google for most searches, I like Bing as an alternative search engine and I find more useful information that Google doesn’t have! I’m glad that Bing and Yahoo exists as rivals to Google, because I can’t stand monopolies in web search engines! Competition helps innovation online!

[debatablefootballopinions]

Request for a video: Voodoo Doughnuts.

They’re a donut shop with only 17 locations nationwide but they’re quite bizarre. They’re somehow open 24/7 despite only selling donuts but they also have their own merch and a quite bizarre aesthetic. Could be the beginning of a big chain.

[Square_Peg]

I've been using Google for much longer than Bing so it is what I keep using. I also have my Google accounts all set up the way I want them and use many other Google products. I also have an Android phone and my search history is synchronized across my devices which can be helpful. The only thing I ever use Bing for is reverse image searches as an additional check with doing it using Google or Tineye and I also use Bing for, well, um, adult stuff. They seem to hide less of what I'm looking for when doing those searches.

[yo.adrian]

In the TV show "Hawaii Five-0", I just remember how off the character named Chin Ho Kelly sounded when he said "Bing it" when his cousin asked about an art piece.

That show had a lot of Microsoft product placements.

[lukasfranca]

I tried to use Bing because sometimes Google didn't find what I was looking for (and I ended up finding it on Bing), but I ended up going back to Google because, while on Google I just needed to use Bing once in a while to find something, on Bing I had to Google something all the time, and I ended up going back. Today I only use Bing if I can't find something on Google, and occasionally for adult content and reverse image. I also think the ChatGpt + Google combination is much better than BingGPT

[Patrick_n]

Used Google forever out of habit. Tried Bing when I started using Edge and never looked back.