posted by
azrael
on Monday June 30 2014, @07:56AM
from the small-one-gets-away-with-everything dept.
from the small-one-gets-away-with-everything dept.
TorrentFreak reports:
At every available opportunity copyright holders criticize Google for not doing enough to stop online piracy and every step taken by the search engine only results in more demands. Meanwhile, Microsoft's Bing flies largely under the radar, providing a video and TV show search tool that Google would not dare introduce.
The Bing video search included auto complete of infringing titles, and allows a search to be filtered to show only videos longer than 20 minutes to skip trailers from being shown in the results.
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Bing Video Search gets less Anti-Piracy Attention than Google's Regular Search
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(Score: 2) by Subsentient on Monday June 30 2014, @09:03AM
Nobody uses Bing so there is far, far less reason for anyone to target microsoft for the same thing. They might get an eye here and there, but nothing on the scale of Google. YouTube is filled with illegal music abundantly and since YouTube is so popular, the targeting is not a surprise.
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(Score: 2) by q.kontinuum on Monday June 30 2014, @09:11AM
Does this mean Bing gets renegade/geek-status now? Like, it yields better results for particular searches, but only the pro's know about it? The world gets more bizarre every day...
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Darth Turbogeek on Monday June 30 2014, @09:54AM
Take this for what you will, but apparently Bing is known by those in the know to be better at searching for porn. True or not, I dont honestly know but the video search for other things does seem to just work better and cover more sites than Google so I tend to believe that it's true.
Not the first time I've seen or heard Bing does specialist searching better. I dont think it's a better search engine for general queries buuuuut there is something to the thought Bing is actually worthwhile and not just a Google wannabe.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 30 2014, @01:54PM
I honestly do know, and the answer is yes.
But there are more safe for work uses as well. Try searching for the name of a TV show using google's video search, and bing's. Google gives me the following results:
8 links to youtube
2 links to clips on the network's website
Compare to bing:
8 links to one streaming site
8 links to youtube
1 link to another streaming site
1 link to daileymotion
I'm not saying one is better than the other, but they are clearly different. Depending on what you're looking for, you might use one or the other.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 30 2014, @09:45AM
Once the Net at large wises up to the fact that Bing search is more effective for videos, it's no bet that MS going to start getting the copyright lobby knocking at their door just as loud as they do on Google's door today.
(Score: 2) by TK on Monday June 30 2014, @01:46PM
+1 Insightful
The best thing we can do is to use the video search to our heart's content, but still tell people that bing is a terrible search engine.
The longer we can keep the masses away, the longer we can use something that we like.*
*Note: This is different than $InternetCoolThing, because it has MS backing it, and they will continue to throw money at it no matter how unpopular it is.
The fleas have smaller fleas, upon their backs to bite them, and those fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 30 2014, @07:13PM
yeah, way to go, LHSI! *thanks* for posting this!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 30 2014, @11:05AM
K-Mart gets less attention than Wal-Mart, but that doesn't mean anyone wants to go there. Of course Google gets all the attention, just like Wal-Mart and Toyota, because they're big companies that give you an instant headline if you mention them. Bing, K-Mart, and Kia don't have much pull. Anyone who wants media attention will single out a headline-making company. Apple got the headlines for Foxcon, but all the gadget companies use the same manufacturing.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 30 2014, @05:55PM
Anyone remember that really good music search engine that Microsoft bought several years ago? Can't recall the name, but it found music from sources all over the open web, and was bought before it could be sued I guess.