Welcome to Google, Bing Users

It comes as no surprise, Google is more favored than Bing. Google even became a commonly used verb after its first few years of operation. Got a question? "Google it". Even the employees at Microsoft, the creator of Bing, prefer to use Google as their search engine. 

Microsoft also created Internet Explorer, the lesser know 11th plague God put on this earth. If I couldn't trust Microsoft to make a semi-half decent browser then what faith would I have in their search engine? But hey at least got Microsoft Word right.

Personally, I prefer Google. I use Google Chrome as my web browser so Google is my default search engine. But even before the times of Chrome I have prefered the nearly effortless experience I get with using Google. I don't know if its the cute interactive logo during special occasions, like when the Google logo became a keyboard one day and you could play mary had a little lamb. I don't know if its the broadness when I type in a search that helps me find the result I want. I don't know exactly what it is that keeps me as a devoted Google user, but I do know that I never want to switch.

Years ago I recall using Bing and hated it because its searches were too narrow and didn't have as many choices as Google. I decided to do a side by side comparison of Google and Bing searching "Mountain Goat". Bing has a nice clean modern style to it, but its logo is

quite frankly stupid. What is that? An arrow? Initially I don't like the suggestions Bing gives me to search, Google at least keeps track of where I like to go and remembers. Bing was competent enough to find my search but suggested about a million other animals as "related topics" and showed up with pictures first.

When I typed "Mountain Goat" into Google I got the most relevant websites to my search first, then pictures. Now I don't know about you, but when I am using a search engine 7 out of 10 times I'm searching for a website. Google also doesn't try to get me off topic like a child with ADD. Google owns two-thirds of the U.S. search market, that means it will find you what you're looking for. It does not have to distract you and attempt to pull you off topic like Bing.

Google already does all of the functions needed in a search engine. Google is familiar and user friendly. Google is so well known and used that Google, unlike Bing, does not have to advertise their search engine to users. Why switch to Bing when it has no specific advantages over Google? Plus who could resist the adorable graphical interfaces Google creates?