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Top feedback summary for December 3
jraff
Although, the SE cannot be changed on the NTP (good thing Bing is so good) BUT... I can be changed to a preferred choice in the Address Bar. One can, also, make the Start-up page be whatever desired. Searching there rather than turning to the NTP and Bing, no matter how good it is.
Cheers,
Drew
- If you 'love ... Bing News and the image of the day' (which both come from Bing and not Google) why don't you give Bing a proper try instead of believing Google is always better?
I have gradually shown most of my clients that they can find everything they want much more easily and quickly with a few clicks and searches on Bing, without having to trawl through all the pinned adverts associated with the same content on Google. Currently the Microsoft Points tally up quite nicely from every Bing Search too!It's REALLY easy to prefer Bing. It's very impressive and offers a lot! And more cool things are coming to it all the time. It has many very helpful tools and abilities, indeed! And what it does it does well (and better) and in nice(r), appealing ways.
Cheers,
Drew- Spoiler
Drew1903 wrote:
It's REALLY easy to prefer Bing. It's very impressive and offers a lot! And more cool things are coming to it all the time. It has many very helpful tools and abilities, indeed! And what it does it does well (and better) and in nice(r), appealing ways.
Bing sucks at search results and crawling sites that use non-English languages and locales.
Bing, just like the majority of Microsoft products, are optimized for US only.
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- I'm sure Bing is great, and I may give it a try. However, you can't expect every other lay user to just start using Bing, people like Google and are resistant to change. More people would use edge if they'd just allow us to use our own search engine for the NTP. I know that some people only use DuckDuckGo for privacy reasons, would it be more user-friendly to just add the option?
jraff wrote:
I'm sure Bing is great, and I may give it a try. However, you can't expect every other lay user to just start using Bing, people like Google and are resistant to change. More people would use edge if they'd just allow us to use our own search engine for the NTP. I know that some people only use DuckDuckGo for privacy reasons, would it be more user-friendly to just add the option?Yeah I want to use DuckDuckGo and i want the NTP to get DuckDuckGo's theme when i switch my search engine to it. Google chrome exactly does this. you know what this means? Google, the number 1 search engine in the world, is letting people change the search engine of their Chrome browser to something else, so why Microsoft shouldn't let this happen!
jraff
Well, here is a sort of compromise. Use Bing.com as Start-up page & or Home page and make the/its Address Bar whatever SE you want. Just a thought... Same photo, nice top bar menu items & Feeds @ the bottom. Good customiseable Settings in the hamburger.
Cheers,
Drew- Spoiler
Drew1903 wrote:Well, here is a sort of compromise. Use Bing.com as Start-up page & or Home page and make the/its Address Bar whatever SE you want.
Honestly the address bar should be like Firefox, allowing user to change search engine on the fly without the need to go to settings page or set Bing as homepage which is something that is unpleasant for non-US residents because Microsoft products always have more features for the US residents than people in the rest of the world.
it's like that in a wide variety of the Microsoft products.
HotCakeX Regarding Microsoft providing more non-US based content...
I think Microsoft is getting much better at supporting non-US markets. Certainly as far as the UK is concerned Microsoft offer some of the best UK-English services compared with the likes of Apple and Google.
A small example - using Microsoft's SwiftKey keyboard on my main Android mobile works a treat, but using 'UK English' with G-Board on my spare Android phone results in American English spellings being suggested before UK English ones. This is really frustrating, not to mention making life difficult for those learning English in the UK.
I believe the cultural differences in language are very important, and have noticed particularly recently that things are beginning to slip, often reading 'traveling' instead of 'travelling' or 'spelled' instead of 'spelt.' (I accept that language changes all the time, and that English of all variants is particularly fluid, or perhaps it is my age making me more sensitive than I should be?)
The same applies to Apple as well - the news app on my MacBook is horrendously America-centric, whereas the Microsoft News App can be tailored to suit the UK and even provide news from local newspapers too.
- Thanks mate, I'll do that for now. I'm not giving up hope though!
