Does anyone use Bing for their search engine?

I do. I use several search engines, but depending on the topic, Bing returns accurate results, especially since they integrated Bing Chat (their AI).

And I'm not alone.

Google a) is littered with ads, sponsored and overly SEOified results and b) has too much dominance.

So I use Bing, Ecosia (which uses Bing) and a number of other search engines.

Duckduckgo actually uses Bing for search results. Unless something changed.

I host and use SearXNG at home. It's a search engine aggregator that combines results from multiple search engines (including Bing). It also doesn't track your searches.

There are some hosted instances you can use as well, but I recommend hosting it yourself if you can.

Hosted instances: https://searx.space/

GitHub link: https://github.com/searxng/searxng

Yes, I use Bing. I got sick of Google's ads, not to mention having to click through two pages of useless boosted links. Bing is quicker and cleaner.

Yes. I work in corporate environment that uses very restrictive approach to websurfing. Because of that I'm using Edge and Bing while working.

I can find what I want there, but that's about it.

I use DuckDuckGo, which technically means I use Bing minus the privacy violations.

Bing is great for porn

Since the Snoopocalypse I've been using it MUCH more. I'm as surprised as anyone, but without Reddit, Google is complete hot garbage. I used to use Google 95% of the time and didn't realize how many times I gave up and added "reddit" in the query. It's unusable.

Out of principle, I've made SearXNG my default, but I don't shun Bing at all now. I occasionally use DDG, but anything relatively technical just doesn't come up much there.

I've tried alternative search engines but IMO nothing can beat Google.

Qwant is the only one I felt like was of similar quality.

I use whoogle, an open source frontend for Google that's strips all the bullshit out.

I use bing to check if my internet is working

I love Bing, rewards is nice, and the results are less manipulated than google

Only indirectly I believe through ecosia.org

I use Google with DuckDuckGo as a backup if I ever wanted to search something that google likes to censor (like "how to downloading a car").

Bing is pretty good for general searching. I've been mostly using it as my primary. I actually really love Bing Chat for this as well - as a langchain LLM, it is able to search for sources before answering, so it's less likely to hallucinate than ChatGPT alone (which only has the sources it was trained on.) However, one should always double check the sources Bing provides as occasionally it misinterprets when restating from what it has found.

When I want technical results which may contain specific errors in quotes, or technical documentation reference for something, I often find myself moving back to Google. Most recently was a very specific component I was researching in quotes - Bing found zero results, Google found one reference to it (and that ended up being enough for me to understand it.)

I believe part of this is related to the lengthy user profile Google almost certainly has on me, in which it knows very well how to fine tune my results based on what I click on. If Bing is doing the same, it will hopefully improve over time for my very specific queries.

Does playing with the AI count?

I use Bing Chat a lot when researching things but for regular searches I prefer Google. Bing seems to be great for US based users but I have a hard time finding stuff in my language or my area.

Bing Rewards is great, out of the two, at least Microsoft pays me for my info.

I'll be honest, I haven't used anything but Google, probably more out of habit than anything. I didn't realize we had reached the point that Bing was a superior option...

Nope. Duckduck all the way. The only useful thing Bing has (in the UK) is OS maps for map searches.

I use duckduckgo which uses bing to search but that cause it the default in tor and brave search not being able to search images and videos

When I can't find something on Google, I usually switch to Ecosia (which uses Bing). It can have better results, depending on the topic.

I just use it for rewards points so I can get free months of game pass.

I like using bing if only because I have Google for nearly everything else (phone, email, maps, etc)....nice to spread out the tracking of who knows what about me.

I was using bing for a little, switched to DuckDuckGo and now I'm using Kagi. I used the free trial and it was pretty sweet. Just seeing if the $5 a month plan is usable for me. If not I'll probably switch to a different search engine.

It's the default browser whenever I use Edge, but that's about it.

I always google on Bing.

DuckDuckGo

I use DuckDuckGo. Oddly, though, I find that results on searches for specific Linux issues I may be running into are almost better on Google. Given the number of people here saying they get better results with something other than Google, I'm curious if anyone else has had similar or contradictory experiences with Linux troubleshooting searches.

I'd say it's changing very quickly due to ai. Otherwise it wasn't any good

I feel like Google already has a good idea of what I usually search as a programmer, so I don't really see any reason to leave that.