Really, my first "search engine" was an old 2-inch thick Computer Shopper. I haven't seen a computer shopper made recently, but the last one I saw looked... pathetic. Back to the topic, I am glad that Bing has an education-centric search for schools. This is the kind of competition that only makes both products better. (Least we forget other alternatives search engines, such as DuckDuckGo, ixquick, etc.) Also, be aware that google customizes your search results based on who you are, where you are, and what they know about you. I suspect Bing does the same thing, and if they don't, I think they should.
--Matt Ross Ephrata School District J- P <[email protected]> , 4/25/2014 9:21 AM: Copernic from 1990's Jean-Paul Natola ---------------- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 09:09:44 -0700 Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] OT: Microsoft Bing in the classroom From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Pssshhhh... I bust out my Netscape browser and hit my Lycos search engine... On Apr 25, 2014 9:06 AM, "Matthew W. Ross" <[email protected]> wrote: "I still use WebCrawler. Get off my lawn!" --Matt Ross Ephrata School District David Lum <[email protected]> , 4/25/2014 7:14 AM: The few times I’ve tried Bing – I give it a whirl on very infrequent, irregular occasions - it hasn’t returned as many useful answers as Google, but I never cared enough about the difference to document them or specifically recommend against Bing. I view it as a Ford vs. Chevy discussion where some people have bad luck with one or the other brand or simply choose one over the other for various reasons. -Dave Lum From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven M. Caesare Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 5:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] OT: Microsoft Bing in the classroom Queries not tied to either vendor’s products also might be telling. I’d expect MS’s responses regarding Win8 and Google’s answers about Chrome might not be the most level of playing fields, for example. -sc From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 12:49 AM To: ntsysadm Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] OT: Microsoft Bing in the classroom I appreciate the example J-P - thats interesting. Do you have any other examples that arent strictly an error code? -- Espi On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 5:41 PM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: https://www.google.com/#q=0x80070570+error http://www.bing.com/search?q=0x80070570+error&qs=n&form=QBRE&pq=0x80070570+error&sc=8-13&sp=-1&sk=&cvid=6e0ab4f9d9be45cea1e1e2f3da21be2a Clearly there are differences ---------------- From: [email protected] Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:51:42 -0700 Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] OT: Microsoft Bing in the classroom To: [email protected] To the both of you I kindly ask, please provide an example, as I did, where one outshines the other. Not to instigate, but to provide substance that side of the conversation. -- Espi On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: and in my experience the results are equal or better as well. ---------------- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] OT: Microsoft Bing in the classroom Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 09:48:51 -0400My experience, the results are better. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Micheal Espinola Jr Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 9:41 AM To: ntsysadm Subject: [NTSysADM] OT: Microsoft Bing in the classroom Put those little buggers to work to boost our stats! Who cares if the results they get are inferior! Get free Surface tablets in your classroom. It's easy! Anyone can earn credits just by searching the web with Bing. https://www.bing.com/classroom *sigh* -- Espi
