Google vs Bing comparison on same site!

[General]

Found an interesting site using both Google & Bing side-by-side.

Check it out:

http://www.blackdog.ie/google-bing/search.php

[Medhavi]

Great site for easy comparison between Bing and Google!
Google still is far ahead! Bing looks attractive though.

[Marcus Ronaldi]

A couple things that Bing does well, you can preview a page by placing the cursor over it.

[Paul Westmoreland]

Thanks Gary. It's a great site! Fast, good results, less complicated queries.

I tried this to compare, running a basic Linkedin search.

* In Google this: site:linkedin.com "Greater Seattle Area" (inurl:pub OR inurl:/in/) John -inurl:updates -inurl:answers -intitle:directory -inurl:companies
18,000 results

* In Bing: site:linkedin.com "Greater Seattle Area" John -inurl:updates -intitle:directory
1,250 results

NOTE: can also type site:linkedin.com "Greater Seattle Area" John NOT inurl:updates NOT intitle:directory

I was impressed with Bing results! there wasn't much overlap with Google anyway.

here's what seems to work in both engines:

site:
inurl:
intitle:
-
NOT
OR
AND (defaults to AND)

I'll try to get some cheet sheets from Microsoft STC - but here's a search help page, unless someone already has it:

http://help.live.com/help.aspx?project=wl_searchv1&market=en-GB...

Will try some more stuff.

Paul

[Tracey Bacidore]

I haven't found Bing to be superior to other search engines, it's comparable at best regarding results, but the preview hover is a nice feature. I have an issue with the fact that when I searched my own name, included in the results was a history of my Bing searches. I submitted an inquiry to Bing (Microsoft) regarding this & I've yet to receive a response. Anyone else had this experience?

[Edna Barone]

Thanks Paul,

For sharing the basic search strings in Google and Bing. I also foung that in Bing I do get more results.

[Edna Barone]

Thanks Gary:

You always have something new for us, the best is that you share.

Have a great day.

[Irina Shamaeva]

Paul,

A couple of notes.
1. NOT works in Bing but in Google you need to use the minus.
2. Any number of results over 1K is an estimate, so 18K results displayed doesn't really mean a whole lot. It's best to compare queries that bring less than 1,000 results.

It would be really interesting to see how much results overlap, say for a similar query. If you could give us an example that would be great.

Is there a question about Bing's syntax? Here's what Bing supports. I also have attached a file with a table of operators.

Advanced search options

Symbol Function
+ Finds webpages that contain all the terms that are preceded by the + symbol. Also allows you to include terms that are usually ignored.
" " Finds the exact words in a phrase.
() Finds or excludes webpages that contain a group of words.
AND or & Finds webpages that contain all the terms or phrases.
NOT or - Excludes webpages that contain a term or phrase.
OR or | Finds webpages that contain either of the terms or phrases.
Notes
By default, all searches are AND searches.
You must capitalize the NOT and OR operators. Otherwise, Bing will ignore them as stop words.
Stop words and all punctuation marks, except for the symbols noted in this topic, are ignored unless they are surrounded by quotation marks or preceded by the + symbol.
Only the first 10 terms are used to get search results.
Term grouping and Boolean operators are supported in the following preferred order:
parentheses ()
quotation marks "
NOT + -
AND &
OR |

Paul Westmoreland said:

Thanks Gary. It's a great site! Fast, good results, less complicated queries.
I tried this to compare, running a basic Linkedin search.
* In Google this: site:linkedin.com "Greater Seattle Area" (inurl:pub OR inurl:/in/) John -inurl:updates -inurl:answers -intitle:directory -inurl:companies
18,000 results

* In Bing: site:linkedin.com "Greater Seattle Area" John -inurl:updates -intitle:directory
1,250 results

NOTE: can also type site:linkedin.com "Greater Seattle Area" John NOT inurl:updates NOT intitle:directory

I was impressed with Bing results! there wasn't much overlap with Google anyway.

here's what seems to work in both engines:

site:
inurl:
intitle:
-
NOT
OR
AND (defaults to AND)

I'll try to get some cheet sheets from Microsoft STC - but here's a search help page, unless someone already has it:

http://help.live.com/help.aspx?project=wl_searchv1&market=en-GB...

Will try some more stuff.

Paul

[gary cozin]

I don't believe the 'inurl' command works in Bing - the 'intitle' does however.

Irina Shamaeva said:

Paul,

A couple of notes.
1. NOT works in Bing but in Google you need to use the minus.
2. Any number of results over 1K is an estimate, so 18K results displayed doesn't really mean a whole lot. It's best to compare queries that bring less than 1,000 results.

It would be really interesting to see how much results overlap, say for a similar query. If you could give us an example that would be great.

Is there a question about Bing's syntax? Here's what Bing supports. I also have attached a file with a table of operators.

Advanced search options

Symbol Function
+ Finds webpages that contain all the terms that are preceded by the + symbol. Also allows you to include terms that are usually ignored.
" " Finds the exact words in a phrase.
() Finds or excludes webpages that contain a group of words.
AND or & Finds webpages that contain all the terms or phrases.
NOT or - Excludes webpages that contain a term or phrase.
OR or | Finds webpages that contain either of the terms or phrases.
Notes
By default, all searches are AND searches.
You must capitalize the NOT and OR operators. Otherwise, Bing will ignore them as stop words.
Stop words and all punctuation marks, except for the symbols noted in this topic, are ignored unless they are surrounded by quotation marks or preceded by the + symbol.
Only the first 10 terms are used to get search results.
Term grouping and Boolean operators are supported in the following preferred order:
parentheses ()
quotation marks "
NOT + -
AND &
OR |

Paul Westmoreland said:

Thanks Gary. It's a great site! Fast, good results, less complicated queries.
I tried this to compare, running a basic Linkedin search.
* In Google this: site:linkedin.com "Greater Seattle Area" (inurl:pub OR inurl:/in/) John -inurl:updates -inurl:answers -intitle:directory -inurl:companies
18,000 results

* In Bing: site:linkedin.com "Greater Seattle Area" John -inurl:updates -intitle:directory
1,250 results

NOTE: can also type site:linkedin.com "Greater Seattle Area" John NOT inurl:updates NOT intitle:directory

I was impressed with Bing results! there wasn't much overlap with Google anyway.

here's what seems to work in both engines:

site:
inurl:
intitle:
-
NOT
OR
AND (defaults to AND)

I'll try to get some cheet sheets from Microsoft STC - but here's a search help page, unless someone already has it:

http://help.live.com/help.aspx?project=wl_searchv1&market=en-GB...

Will try some more stuff.

Paul

[Christine McKenzie]

Great info! Thanks for sharing!

[krystels123]

Here is a cheatsheet I found

[krystels123]

one more

[Russell S. Moon III]

Great dialogue and appreciate the sharing.