For the past year or so, searchers at Google have expressed their displeasure with Google changing their search query because they think the searcher really wants to search something else.
But now those complaints are reaching over to Microsoft’s search engine, Bing.
We’ve all seen it. You search for something and Google and now Bing, show you search results for something that doesn’t match your exact query. Sometimes Google will be bold enough to say, you searched for X but we are showing you results for Y. Sometimes Google won’t show it at all. Same with Bing.
A WebmasterWorld thread has a complaint from a Bing searcher who said “Now they’re doing it too,” referring to Bing doing what Google has been doing. Adding:
It can be frustrating to not find what you are looking for. Bing’s Duanne Forrester said in response to the specific query example:
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.
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