I hadn't used Bing because Google whenever I would compare the results, it was no match, specially in long-tail results. This article has made me reconsider my assumption.
Usually GOOG had best results for technical queries --but fresh results for those tend to be the better results (things go out of date pretty quick because of quicker release cycles)
However, on occasion it has been difficult to find very specific results to non technical questions --I never even bothered with DDG or Bing, but now I will surely give them a try.
If they are data driven (and they are) for their average users, long tail, old results probably don't make sense --how many people really go down to page 20 of the SERP? I'm sure it's a very miniscule number.
how many people really make go down to page 20 of the SERP? I'm sure it's a very miniscule number.
Unfortunately those people are the ones who are searching the hardest for the most difficult-to-find things, and thus need the services of a search engine the most. It's unfortunate because, for every one of those, there's probably millions of others who just want to search "facebook" and click the first link; a site that I don't even use yet can recite the domain name of off the top of my head.
What's most disappointing is when Google tries to pull fresh content over "stale" content when you know that you exactly want the "stale" content.
This is a contrived example, but say you want to look something up regarding what someone said about drug overdoses back in the 80s. Google would try to insist on brining up information about the most recent overdose studies for example, because people are currently discussing that more, so to Google, obviously I should also be looking the fresher content, so the end result is I get less relevant to virtually irrelevant results.
Usually GOOG had best results for technical queries --but fresh results for those tend to be the better results (things go out of date pretty quick because of quicker release cycles)
However, on occasion it has been difficult to find very specific results to non technical questions --I never even bothered with DDG or Bing, but now I will surely give them a try.
If they are data driven (and they are) for their average users, long tail, old results probably don't make sense --how many people really go down to page 20 of the SERP? I'm sure it's a very miniscule number.