Google vs. Bing vs. Duckduckgo

[goodoldweb]

The new "AI-powered" Google is utterly useless. I just searched for a well-known figure—FIGURENAME from FIGUREORGANISATION—and all I got were results for Tefal pots and pans. The person I was actually looking for is a well known federal union leader.

Bing and DuckDuckGo gave me the correct result right at the top of the first page.

Google has truly become a joke of a search engine. It would have been really funny if it wasn't so sad.

That's it, I'm making the switch and changing default search on all devices to duckduckgo. Google is no longer a search engine as far as i'm concerned.

[edited by: not2easy at 12:25 pm (utc) on Apr 23, 2025]
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[gatormark]

Bing and DuckDuckGo gave me the correct result right at the top of the first page.

That’s probably the exception to the rule though. Take away AI overviews and all the junk that Google puts at the top of search results and the results are actually very good most of the time. Bing search results are horrendous and rarely result in correct results.

[Conro]

@gatormark I don't know in which language you do your searches, but just read the titles of Google articles and it is difficult to get a good index, This at least in information searches, then I don't know what searches you do with Google, but Bing still responds with an index that can be defined as such, Google does not. For example, if I search for "why does the gate squeak" I expect articles that respond to this topic, not articles correlate like "why doesn't the gate close", "Because the authomatic gate makes noise when I close it", "how to oil a gate", "How to do gate maintenance", "Why the rack is noisy" and other useless stuff that Google puts because it has become a poor search engine. I don't know, if for you this is a good search engine then any search engine of 25 years ago is fine

[Micha]

Hm, I agreed with gatormark there. Bing has slowed down quite a bit in the last few months. Also, the news index, at least in the German version, is very much geared towards big media. I just entered Conro's question “Why does the gate squeak?” into Google and Bing and I have to be honest and say that Google's result is significantly better (without the AI answer, which is no longer displayed for me).

[goodoldweb]

@Micha @gatormark

Try "Why does the gate squeak" in duckduckgo and see the diffrence. Great, clean, informative results. That's how i expect a good search engine to respond to a query.

[edited by: goodoldweb at 8:38 am (utc) on Apr 23, 2025]

[Conro]

On Bing, the answer of the featured snippet is "hinges", with the reason extracted from the site why the hinges squeak explained. The next sites in the serp are themed, at least on the first page, the second page of Bing is a disaster. On Google there is aio that gives the correct answer, I then see in the serp articles in the first positions completely off topic, such as "Because the gate motor is noisy." We see different things

[gatormark]

@goodoleweb and @conro You’re not using proper English. I’m in the USA using US English.

Type “why does a gate squeak”

This is the AIO result on Google:

“A squeaking gate is usually caused by friction between the gate's moving parts, like the hinges and latches, due to dry, rusty, or worn hardware. Lack of lubrication allows metal to rub against metal, creating the squeaking.”

Every website result after that answers the question.

In this case, Bungs results are similar and they also have an AIO.

However, try mistyping a search query and see which one is more intelligent.

[Kendo]

Bing search results are horrendous and rarely result in correct results.

I get the opposite. Google gives me a shortlist based on their misinterpretation of rankings (and bias), while Bing returns more accurate results and many more results.

[goodoldweb]

I see the same @Kendo, quite like Bing and DuckDuckGo clean results. No second guessing, intentions, personalisation and all that other undesirable nonsense. In most cases they return precisely what I'm looking for.

Unfortunately, local search is still a problem with those two.

[Mark_A]

I just find Google's results page a mess.
I much prefer the cleaner results from bing and more and more frequently use bing for searches as a result.