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Bing and Google: A Comparison

Bing and Google They are search engines in which a user can look for web, image, video and map contents. They both use crawlers to scan and collect information on websites in order to index them for search. Both have a landing page where one will encounter a single search box centered in the screen. Even their search results page look very familiar. After reading a few articles comparing or promoting either one, I couldn't really tell the actual difference. Just depends on what one would more likely search. I also went and did a side by side comparison by searching the same thing in both search engines at the same time. From what I could tell, Bing seems to be geared towards more mainstream content. For instance, if you were to put a random phrase resembling music lyrics at all, Bing seems to have a higher chance of bringing up a music video in the top results than Google. I entered the phrase "dark horse". Bing brought up Katy Perry and Google brought up Dark ...