This is why I use Google instead of Bing

[Ironman273]

  On 23/01/2014 at 20:06, LaP said:

This is why i use google instead of Bing

http://goo.gl/maps/VRgQ5

http://binged.it/1f9NJ3Z

Bing Maps ***** for rural Quebec, Canada. If i'm going to use Google Maps then i'll use the whole Google service instead.

It's Canada.  There's nothing there anyways!

 

[ThreadAbort]

It works fine for me too.  He must have another bing.

[Malisk]

  On 23/01/2014 at 19:59, Dot Matrix said:

Why use either when there's Wolfram Alpha?

Because you're usually searching for something, and this makes you not have to leave the site.

 

Agreed on Google lagging behind in the International support. Almost no interactivity for other countries.

[firey]

Accesing it in Canada.  Don't see any visual 1 g = x Oz  all I get are search results.

[Lion and Lamb Ministry]

  On 23/01/2014 at 20:00, BajiRav said:

I must be having my own special version of bing

 

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less typing too?

 

YEP, I get the same thing. Bing is excellent!

[Win4Ever]

  On 23/01/2014 at 20:07, Ice_Blue said:

Heh, no. I have some gold that I want to sell. Buyers are quoting prices in grams. :)

 

For gold (and other precious metals), 28.3495 grams is not correct, You need Troy Oz. not regular Oz. and it's 31.1034768 grams

[Ambroos]

Google's unit conversion is insanely smart and can do quite complex (and ridiculous) stuff. Bing's is OK if you use the US version but is horrible otherwise.

 

Bing has been copying a LOT from Google the past year. If you search "Moviename cast" you always got a nice big cast list on Google, Bing only recently started doing the same.

 

Difference is that Google actually does that worldwide and not just for the US. Something Microsoft still hasn't managed to do. You have no idea how horrible Bing is in Belgium. I've never ever seen anyone use it.

[Eric Veteran]

  On 23/01/2014 at 20:00, BajiRav said:

I must be having my own special version of bing

 

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less typing too?

Got the same results with "grams per ounce." I think this is more about how to do research than the results.

[firey]

  On 23/01/2014 at 21:16, Lion and Lamb Ministry said:

YEP, I get the same thing. Bing is excellent!

 

... if you live in the states.

[Ice_Blue]

  On 23/01/2014 at 21:28, Win4Ever said:

For gold (and other precious metals), 28.3495 grams is not correct, You need Troy Oz. not regular Oz. and it's 31.1034768 grams

 

Thanks. Didn't know that.

[+DonC Subscriber²]

You'll see the line in Bing if you set it to US English.

I'm sure the feature *used* to be in UK Bing or perhaps when it was still Live Search.

[LUTZIFER]

  On 23/01/2014 at 20:53, Ironman273 said:

It's Canada.  There's nothing there anyways!

 

Yeah you are right, there is nothing here... no tornados, no hurricanes, no earthquakes, and no jets flying in to buildings. USA, what an awesome place. :rolleyes:

[BajiRav]

  On 23/01/2014 at 21:40, Ambroos said:

Google's unit conversion is insanely smart and can do quite complex (and ridiculous) stuff. Bing's is OK if you use the US version but is horrible otherwise.

 

Bing has been copying a LOT from Google the past year. If you search "Moviename cast" you always got a nice big cast list on Google, Bing only recently started doing the same.

 

Difference is that Google actually does that worldwide and not just for the US. Something Microsoft still hasn't managed to do. You have no idea how horrible Bing is in Belgium. I've never ever seen anyone use it.

I am fairly certain Google has copied a lot from bing too but let's not derail this thread.

[Otto Gunter]

  On 23/01/2014 at 20:02, Phouchg said:

"I'd wish people would stop posting US version screenshots and boasting about it."

 

Yeah, I get so jealous when I see that "Any time" dropdown that only the US has, for some inexplicable reason.  I mean, how hard can it be to let the rest of us search by date?  If/when I have that capability, I can finally remove the last shred of Google from my otherwise pristine Surface Pro 2. I WANT IT AND I WANT IT NOW, DAMMIT.

[Gerowen]

I've always been a fan of Google's built-in stuff like that.  You can type in math problems, unit conversions, etc. and most of the time it'll put a little calculator or something right at the top of your search results.  I haven't used Bing primarily in a while.  I tried it for a few months and it wasn't that the search engine was particularly bad, it gave me results that were relevant to the terms I entered, it's just that I hardly ever got the exact page or result I was looking for.  A lot of my searches are for things I've seen before, and I'm just trying to track down that particular page again, and Google seems to work better for me in that regard.

 

Just out of curiosity I did a search on 5 search engines, and here's the results I got.
 

Google

 

Bing

 

DuckDuckGo

 

Ask (It re-phrased my search entry for me, I entered the same text as the other search engines)

 

Yahoo

[McKay]

Bing UK doesn't turn back a direct conversion. Bing US does.

[123456789A]

Works correctly for me. I can also type in something simple like "32g to ounces" and it gives me the answer.

 

I can also get two conversions in one search, like "150g to ounces and carats" and it gives me both answers. Google didn't do that when I tried.

 

Although I do like Google's interactive result layout.

[devHead]

I asked Bing how many grams in an ounce and got the big 1 ounce = 28.3495231 grams.  How much grams?  I think the correct word is many, bro.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

May I just say that correct English should read: "How many grams are there in an ounce"

 

Note: Grams/Grammes - the world has adopted "Grams"

[snaphat (Myles Landwehr) Member]

  On 24/01/2014 at 00:38, Nik L said:

May I just say that correct English should read: "How many grams are there in an ounce"

 

Note: Grams/Grammes - the world has adopted "Grams"

Why write proper English at all? Might as well shortcut to this:

 

  Quote

ounce to grams

 

or

 

  Quote

ounce

 

;-)

[123456789A]

  On 24/01/2014 at 00:48, snaphat (Myles Landwehr) said:

Why write proper English at all? Might as well shortcut to this:

 

Even "oz to g" works.

[Shiranui]

Perhaps bing simply refused to deal with your poor grammar.

[notchinese]

Conclusion: 'Murica.

[Ice_Blue]

  On 24/01/2014 at 01:00, Shiranui said:

Perhaps bing simply refused to deal with your poor grammar.

 

One more reason Google is better. :)

It gets the gist of the question.

[Rippleman]

  On 23/01/2014 at 20:00, BajiRav said:

I must be having my own special version of bing

trying inputting the search "how many grams in 2 ounces" and you will see what he was meaning...

  On 23/01/2014 at 20:13, -Razorfold said:

I'm not sure what I'm looking at in both those pictures lol. Apart from Google showing 2 lakes that Bing doesn't show, everything else looks the same.

trying inputting the search "how many grams in 2 ounces" and you will see what he was meaning...

  On 23/01/2014 at 20:59, ThreadAbort said:

It works fine for me too.  He must have another bing.

trying inputting the search "how many grams in 2 ounces" and you will see what he was meaning...

  On 23/01/2014 at 21:04, firey said:

Accesing it in Canada.  Don't see any visual 1 g = x Oz  all I get are search results.

I get the actual calculator from Alberta location