Re: [Dorset] Bing versus Google.

2009-12-15 Thread Steve hemingway
http://www.pcworld.com/article/184520/mozilla_endorses_bing_over_google_privacy_issues.html Not at all surprised about this myself but would rather see us move away from this concept of search engine loyalty programs for applications. Did try YaCy peer, but VirginMedia would penalise me too

Re: [Dorset] Bing versus Google.

2009-12-15 Thread Simon O'Riordan
Personally I'm not much worried. But I do like to get a good set of results, and as there are definite performance differences between Google and Bing, I shall be using one to back up the other. Simono - Original Message - From: Dominic Lonsdale lonsdale...@btinternet.com To: Dorset

Re: [Dorset] Bing versus Google.

2009-12-15 Thread John Cooper
On 15/12/09 17:31, Terry Coles wrote: On Monday 14 Dec 2009, Simon O'Riordan wrote: Not sure of the source, but apparently the boss of Mozilla has advised people to switch from Google to Bing over Google Privacy policies. I ran a test; Haar-classifiers are much more accurately found on Bing,

Re: [Dorset] Bing versus Google.

2009-12-15 Thread Simon O'Riordan
While we're at it, Google has got its own phone due out in the new year. This is their first piece of actual hardware, and of course it uses Android. Apparently some of the existing Androids aren't too happy. The MSM think it likely Google will pursue an Apple I-phone model. I'm not convinced.

Re: [Dorset] Bing versus Google.

2009-12-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Terry Coles wrote: Like him, I don't trust any search provider, but I think I trust Google more than I trust Microsoft. I have no evidence for this, other than three decades of abuse from the latter and one decade of 'we do no evil' from the former :-) Does Bing use criteria like who's

Re: [Dorset] Bing versus Google.

2009-12-15 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday 15 Dec 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Does Bing use criteria like who's paying them money to influence the order of results? Something MS search engines have done in the past IIRC, and something Google have never done. As you say, MS Search used to be pretty poor. I remember about a