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[START_RANT]
Dear Bing
I was recently persuaded to switch to you from your arch-rival and nemesis, Google. I did it because, frankly, I thought it was time for a change. I was bored with the anodyne nothing that Google had become and thought I needed to see pretty pictures to liven up my searching experience.
It all started out so well... there you were in all your graphic glory... a neat little menu bar at the top and some rather annoying images at the bottom. Apparently, this is "my news and interests". Trouble is they don't actually match anything I'd be interested in. I'm here to search for something. That's all. You're not my friend or my confidant. If I want news, I'll go to a news channel. If I want information about my hobbies, I'll go to an appropriate web site.
And then I see that I can switch you off in settings. Job done, easy-peasy.
But, of course, it wasn't. Open the browser later and back you come. Hmm. Ok, must be a cookie issue so I specifically enable IE to allow your cookies and all is well with the world; no more useless fluff on the page.
Until the next day when it's back again. 
How elephanting hard can it be to allow me to persist my choices for more than a day? I've signed in to my MS account, why not store my preferences there? Oh no, we're Microsoft and we know better than everyone else.
Well, elephant you, MS, I'm off back to Google; they may be anodyne but maybe that's part of their charm. They invite me to search without bombarding me with useless, distracting cruft that I have no interest in.
So bye-bye Bing - you had your chance and you blew it. I'm sure, in the scheme of things, MS won't give a damn about losing one disgruntled customer; fine, but you've made me a Googler for life.
[END_RANT]
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: I'm sure, in the scheme of things, MS won't give a damn about losing one disgruntled customer
But ... but ... you were the only user Bing had that lasted several days!
(I lasted several minutes)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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[longer than me]
veni bibi saltavi
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OriginalGriff wrote: that lasted several days!
or years.
or centuries.
or...you get the idea. 
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I've been a bing user for years! Someday, I'm going to win something with my Microsoft Rewards, I know I will! It was the pictures that got me started. Normally, I enter "google" in the search box but sometimes I search for realz with bing.
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I use it for months since I upgrade my windows to 10 
And it my favorite search engine when I want to search for code or VS things or something that relate to MSDN website 
modified 12-Mar-17 4:22am.
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: They invite me to search without bombarding me with useless, distracting cruft that I have no interest in.
And then every website you visit shows ads based on what Google knows about you. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Bing is a worthless search engine. Many times it doesn't find anything relevant while the same keywords in Google do the job.
I am forced to use it at work and I faaaarking hate it.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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Coupled with Cortana it is part of an experiment to determine just how far users can be pushed before they start to smash the vdu ( rather than the actual pc ).
We're philosophical about power outages here. A.C. come, A.C. go.
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Cortana has been the first service I closed on my Windows Phone, and on PC I still have 7 and rocking.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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den2k88 wrote: Bing is a worthless search engine.
Not entirely. From what I hear, Bing finds more nekkid ladies than Google. Now, Google finds me enough nekkid ladies already, so I've never had the need to verify personally. 
Of course at work (unless you have a fantastic job) this is rather a moot point.
But worthless? Nah!!
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Actually, I like bing because it finds different stuff than google. When I'm not finding enough stuff, I'll try bing.
I also like duckduckgo.com because it uses google, but doesn't remember my preferences, so I get a clean slate.
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At work I have only bing accessible, while at home I'm ok with Google.
* CALL APOGEE, SAY AARDWOLF
* GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
* Never pay more than 20 bucks for a computer game.
* I'm a puny punmaker.
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And in Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, 'Ing[^]' is the Luminoth[^] word for 'terror', so Bing is 'B Terror'
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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Interesting how "bing" means useless rubbish in Ireland, and means disease in Chinese. We all know that disease is useless rubbish.
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That's bing4. The other bings mean different b things.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It sounds like what you're saying is that Google does a better job than Bing of automatically identifying you, without you having to do anything, and then applying your own preferences.
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Well no, not really. Google is plain, boring interface. I open the page, type in my search and Boom!, I get a response - I'm not distracted by all the shiny knobs and buttons that I really neither want nor need.
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There's nothing plain about Google's search page nowadays.
I just launched my browser, went to google.com, and I'm now looking at a page that's asking me to login (no thanks), along with asking me to download Chrome (no thanks)...every time I load it up.
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You actually made me curious about bing - so I went to check it...
I was there for 15 seconds... The moment I saw the 'outlook.com' and 'office online' on the menu bar, I closed it...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Oh, you're just strange!
People Love to be harassed to the point of wanting to kill!
That's why ms and google do it so much!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: I'm off back to Google
Why not try DuckDuckGo[^] instead? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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