Bing... why is it so bad?

killerbyte

killerbyte

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For a while now I have considered Bing just not my cup of tea, primarily because I am so used to the way the Google Algorithm delivers results and I am not going to change my brain this late in the game. However Bing has delivered results when I have accidentally used it in Edge.
A user told me the new Fortigate was blocking Google Maps, and then she sent me a screenshot. Short answer is, it was not the Fortigate.

Here is the result for a Bing search of "Google Maps"

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Can you spot the issue?
 
killerbyte said:
For a while now I have considered Bing just not my cup of tea, primarily because I am so used to the way the Google Algorithm delivers results and I am not going to change my brain this late in the game. However Bing has delivered results when I have accidentally used it in Edge.
A user told me the new Fortigate was blocking Google Maps, and then she sent me a screenshot. Short answer is, it was not the Fortigate.

Here is the result for a Bing search of "Google Maps"

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Can you spot the issue?
Click to expand...

The location metadata is incorrectly crawled.
 
I am almost certain that when you use a VPN that the top link will work. Google produces cleanURLs, their competition needs to do their own indexing going by your IP address.
 
killerbyte said:
For a while now I have considered Bing just not my cup of tea, primarily because I am so used to the way the Google Algorithm delivers results and I am not going to change my brain this late in the game. However Bing has delivered results when I have accidentally used it in Edge.
A user told me the new Fortigate was blocking Google Maps, and then she sent me a screenshot. Short answer is, it was not the Fortigate.

Here is the result for a Bing search of "Google Maps"



Can you spot the issue?
Click to expand...

Open links in new tab?
 
Using Bing is like using a non-Philips AirFryer. Yes, it can work sometimes, but why do you want to mess around with these funny brands when the real thing is there?
 
Try actually search for something a bit more challenging and you'll quickly find that 99% of the time you'll get to where you want with Google faster.
That is why.
 
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