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I agree - many people are waiting for Google's replacement. People were laughing at Bing's quality, but it is really on par with Google right now. It's just that people are habituated to use Google's search. You can test this with this tool:

http://blekko.com/ws/+/monte

Truth to be told, Google search results are worse than few years ago. At the same time, they look more and more like a christmas tree - ads and other junk (google products?, google plus results?) everywhere.

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I don't trust the results of that website.

Compare: http://blekko.com/ws/c%23+get+custom+attribute+/monte

With: http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=c%23+get+custom+attribute

Blekko claims the first google result is "C: Summary for Citigroup, Inc. Common Stock- Yahoo! Finance", while google finds the relevant information.

That's because Google knows what you want based on their tracking information and previous searches.

Doesn't Bing do this too?

It cut out the part after the '#' character. You've got results for 'C'. It is a bug. Try other searches without special characters.

Quality isn't just about search results. I recently wanted to try Bing for a week or so because people keep claiming it has gotten better, but I ran into a dealbreaker: no working search add-on for Firefox Mobile (even though Microsoft was trying to get the Firefox default last year). Plus the Bing search app/widget was disappointing: it kept trying to keep me in the app instead of integrating with the rest of my phone

In the bigger picture, Bing still has a long way to go.

I still find Google to have much better results than Bing for complicated search, such as a brain dump of a few things about the subject such as a person or film rather than a more structured search.

"People were laughing at Bing's quality, but it is really on par with Google right now."

This is definitively not the case outside of the US. At least not here in the Scandinavian countries.

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