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.

Bing is great for porn

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

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

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

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”).

I use bing to check if my internet is working

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.

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.

DuckDuckGo

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

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.

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.