@matigo Yep. In terms of influence. Google is small potatoes in the "stick it to people's pocket books" compared to Bell though. The exception being for content creators.
@matigo Also, I do not like giving a single company too much trust or usage. I'm old enough the remember Ma Bell. The world doesn't need any more of those.
@matigo …Bing used to be singularly horrible at those types of searches. Now, it works very well.
@matigo My searches are more along the lines of..
"Why am I getting X error message when the error is clearly not related?"
"I have a question about 'Obscure programming library/tool' that I could answer by searching boxes for documentation but I do not want to do that"
etc.
Probably the most boring search history on the planet.
The results from my "Switch to Bing for browser and device search" experiment:
I'm not interested in moving back to Google. This is a outcome I did not anticipate.
Receptionist keeps ambling back here, opening my door and asking, "Ya okay, doll?"
I normally snap at people when they mother hen me like that but she's my "right hand man" around here so I bite my tongue.
@nitinkhanna i've quickly learned to not trust anonymous online reviews.
// @phoneboy @kdfrawg
Of course there were several situations that demanded I be here until 5:00pm. Working on getting myself sufficiently caffeinated to make the half hour drive home.
@kdfrawg I've already given them fair warning. I have one scheduled appointment in roughly ten minutes. Will then ship two servers out and clean up our RPM repositories and do a few other things I have been putting off. Then I am gone.
Of course, this assumes someone doesn't call with an emergency.