Hi!

Was just wondering if anyone else is starting to use Bing more these days (or any other search engine).  I used to be a google addict but these days I just type what I want into the address field of IE (7!) and it looks up Bing and to be honest I'm not bothered by that any more.  I don't like the big picture they have on the Bing homepage but I bypass that.  I also bypass all the annoying (for me) google "autocomplete" dropdowns!

Anyway any thoughts welcome. Do you have a favourite search engine?

Many thanks,

Pierre

When Bing first came out I would do a search, go to the site I searched, and copy the URL of the site to paste in a forum or email etc. The copied and pasted URL would always take the recipient of my post to the Bing search page and not to the actual site. I tried three three different times and gave up. I don't know if that issue has been fixed because I never went back. Bing is out of my life forever though.
I've always been leary of the giants like Google, but yeah, I use it when I have to.
I use Yahoo search most of all, because I've always cheered for the underdog.   

It may be just me, but using Google as my search engine, I recently find that it appears to note my search preferences, and automatically place annoying ads related to those preferences on each page that I open!
I then have to manually get my; "Add Block" and; "Ad Preferences" to remove them every time...but this is a constant process!

The same sort of annoying adds that now appear on each of the U-Tube videos..(maybe for the same reason?).
(Maybe they are placed there for some very good reason...attracting money?)

There seems to be no way of permanently stopping these ads from appearing.

I've tried a number of other search engines, but none of them seem to be quite as efficient, and as accurate, as Google.

Paul....drowning under advertisements... ...!

I always use Google.  I even use Google as my homepage because it is a simple page that loads quickly.

Bass wrote on Sep 10^th, 2012 at 7:34am:


I've used Firefox since it was first invented, but even with various FF plug-ins installed, and various settings created,  I still get bombarded with Adverts on my Web Pages, which I have to manually delete!

Advertising on Video displays; U-Tube, News Media Players, etc, has now become a particular annoyance, waiting for them to finish before viewing the content. (Often unable to by-pass them).

Paul....Google Search Engine... ...!

...and why do I keep getting pestered to download; "Google Chrome" as a Browser, at the top of my FF Page!... ...!

Bass wrote on Sep 10^th, 2012 at 7:34am:


MMmm Firefox eats a lot of resources of my PC ,I been using Chrome ,I think is faster and smarter and lighter
and about Bing isn't that M$ territory?
I stay wit Google and die with Google ,Google Gmail, Google Youtube, Google Chrome   

Fozzer wrote on Sep 10^th, 2012 at 2:59am:

I use Firefox with Google as my home page. I've never suffered from this problem. It might be the way you have it set up. Check the Firefox & Google preferences.

I prefer Google as a search engine but find the Ordnance Survey option on Bing Maps* useful for planning my walks out in the country. (This only applies to the UK.)

Here's a sample OS map of my local area showing public footpaths & bridleways.


*This used to be Multimap.

Glad to help Paul!

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Hi!

Many thanks for the replies.  I particularly like that Bing Ordnance Survey thing although Ordnance survey linking up with a big coroporate giant like Microsoft might not be a good thing!  I'm pretty sure OS used to offer their maps for view (albeit in small portions) online on their website.

Anyway I'm still using Bing quite a lot.  I don't find it any better than Google really just not any worse (in most cases) so I just use it.  Plus Google does some things I don't like these days. I installed Google Chrome for my Mum and there are now two "services" installed for Google updaters!!  Seriously why do these companies push updates down our throats even when they're not making any money off them!  If updates were so great why are sites like 'oldverion' and 'oldapps' doing so well!

Rant over (sorry!).

Many thanks,

Pierre