Google has been synonymous with searching for years, while Bing quickly became synonymous with sarcasm with the main question being, because someone will ever use Bing search. Believe it or not, the two search engines are not as different as the jokes they say.
Obviously, most of you already know the two search engines, but first of all, let's remember a few things:
Google: By far the most used search engine in the world, Google search has been among us since 1998 and is continually improving with new smart results, advanced features and integration with other Google products. Since February of this year, Google currently has 64.5% of market research in the US market.
Bing: Bing is the latest name for Microsoft's search engine, formerly called Windows Live Search and MSN Search. The Bing brand as a "decision maker" aims to deliver results with a more realistic environment than simply finding text on a page. Bing also authorizes Yahoo's search, which, in conjunction with Bing, serves 32.6% of US researchers online.
Both sites look and look impressively similar when it comes to basic search results. In fact, in addition to the font and logo at the top of the page, it would be easy to confuse one another. But there are the main differences that I have noticed and I will mention them below:
Bing's video search is significantly better than Google. This is the biggest difference between the two (and why Bing has some reputation as a "born search engine"). Instead of giving you a vertical thumbnail video list, it gives you a grid of thumbnails that you can click to watch without leaving Bing. In some videos, it will even give you a preview if you pass over the thumbnail with the mouse pointer.
But Bing search engine gives more auto complete suggestions than Google does in many cases. Google gives only four, while Bing gives eight. This is especially useful if you use auto complete to find alternative products or want to get more suggestions.
Google's shopping suggestions appear more often than in Bing, and are generally much better. So if you are trying to find out which stores carry a particular product or where to find the best price online, Google will be better than Bing.
Google's image search interface looks a bit smoother when you use it, although Bing has one or two more advanced options such as "Layout" (which allows you to search for portrait or landscape images). Bing's image search also allows you to remove certain parts of the search term with one click, which is pleasing (hopefully do so for all searches).
Bing puts relevant searches and related image searches to the right of search results, while Google puts them close to the bottom. It isn’t good or bad, it is just a difference.
Bing has also embraced many of Google's "smart queries", such as movie views, unit conversions, local weather, information about famous people, and the like. Most of these things are remarkably similar, although Google has a few things that Bing does not have, such as health information and release dates for movies and video games. If you rely on smart searches, go with Google. (One exception: if you are looking for flights, Bing has an elegant feature that predicts whether ticket prices will go up or down).
Surprisingly, the two search engines are fairly comparable when it comes to advanced operators. The syntax may be slightly different from each other, but there is a great deal of overlap. However, Google has more things and is better for advanced searches, except for two searches that only Bing can do:
Content : It allows you to search for pages that contain a specific file type (for example, PDF). On Google, it will link you to PDFs only, but in Bing, it will give you pages that contain links to PDFs, which may be useful.
Linkfromdomain : shows you the pages with the best scores associated with a specific site
Feed : Allows you to search for RSS feeds on a specific topic.
Google also has some extra details built into the search, such as reverse image search (which is incredible), instant search (which displays the results when typing), voice search (which allows you to search with the microphone you) complete courses with Google services such as Gmail, Google Now, and Google Contacts. If you use multiple Google files, it's hard to get away from your search.
Bing Rewards is also worth mentioning: If you sign up for this service, you can earn points for every search you make at Bing, which you can redeem for gift cards on Amazon, Starbucks, GameStop or even donate to a favorite charity .
If you do a specific location search on Google, you will not see any Knowledge Graph information. But Bing does it.
I was extremely annoyed when I could not determine results from a day or a week or a year ago, except for Bing's news. It now appears that Bing this time allows for its other results, but Google is still the one with the custom date range available.
Now let's say what really matters: actual search results. None of the above features matter if a site does not offer you what you are looking for.
As far as basic searches are concerned, I found that both search engines, even if they had different results, generally gave me what I wanted. A search may be somewhat better for Bing, while another may be better on Google. I was surprised to see that Bing did a better job with a few quests.
The actual differences occurred when looking for something specific, such as technical issues ("data recovery from an external disk"). If the answer to your question is buried in a big forum or blog, Google will probably do a better job to find it and organize the results. And the more specific the question, the more Google gets.
The winner: Google
I do not think it surprised you that, objectively, Google is the best search engine. He has more experience, is by far the most popular thing in the world and constantly innovates. I was surprised at how similar both search engines were in terms of features. Bing does even better some things like the video. But, while I sometimes liked Bing's results on Google for general searches, Google's ability to get things out of the darkest corners of the internet is very valuable. Small differences are small, but Google is still the best search engine.
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