Re: [Dorset] Bing versus Google.

2009-12-15 Thread Steve hemingway
http://www.pcworld.com/article/184520/mozilla_endorses_bing_over_google_privacy_issues.html Not at all surprised about this myself but would rather see us move away from this concept of search engine loyalty programs for applications. Did try YaCy peer, but VirginMedia would penalise me too

Re: [Dorset] Bing versus Google.

2009-12-15 Thread Simon O'Riordan
Linux User Group dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 11:33 AM Subject: Re: [Dorset] Bing versus Google. Have you tried Scroogle ? It uses Google but it claims to act as a privacy filter between yourself and Google. http://www.scroogle.org/cgi-bin/scraper.htm On Mon

Re: [Dorset] Bing versus Google.

2009-12-15 Thread John Cooper
On 15/12/09 17:31, Terry Coles wrote: On Monday 14 Dec 2009, Simon O'Riordan wrote: Not sure of the source, but apparently the boss of Mozilla has advised people to switch from Google to Bing over Google Privacy policies. I ran a test; Haar-classifiers are much more accurately found on Bing,

Re: [Dorset] Bing versus Google.

2009-12-15 Thread Simon O'Riordan
. Simono - Original Message - From: John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk To: dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:30 PM Subject: Re: [Dorset] Bing versus Google. On 15/12/09 17:31, Terry Coles wrote: On Monday 14 Dec 2009, Simon O'Riordan wrote: Not sure

Re: [Dorset] Bing versus Google.

2009-12-15 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Terry Coles wrote: Like him, I don't trust any search provider, but I think I trust Google more than I trust Microsoft. I have no evidence for this, other than three decades of abuse from the latter and one decade of 'we do no evil' from the former :-) Does Bing use criteria like who's

Re: [Dorset] Bing versus Google.

2009-12-15 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday 15 Dec 2009, Ralph Corderoy wrote: Does Bing use criteria like who's paying them money to influence the order of results? Something MS search engines have done in the past IIRC, and something Google have never done. As you say, MS Search used to be pretty poor. I remember about a