Microsoft Bing Search 17+

I can put my search in and it brings up very accurate information and several sites to search on. They are second runner up to Google, but Bing is #1 in my book for staying out of you business. They don’t seem to be “everywhere” like the big G. Bing doesn’t spy on you , as far as I know. I understand they are trying to advertise their commercials to your liking but sometimes I feel they go to far. So bing is #1 to me for not leaving you with that feeling that you have someone leaning over your shoulder.

I’ve always preferred Bing over any other search engine for it’s simple and elegant home page. Not only is it completely junked up with news and suggested content and ads, it lags so badly that it’s virtually impossible to browse any website. Scrolling freezes completely or is just so slow to load it moves in small chunks as I swipe over and over trying to get it to move.

Typing into the search bar on the home page also lags behind and freezes, and it’s even worse when I try to type into a search bar on a website. The keyboard takes a long time to pop up when I click in a search bar and I can type several words before a single letter appears. Sometimes it catches up, most of the time only the first few letters typed appear.

I’ve thought it was my phone all week so have been restarting constantly…until I finally tried Google and it ran perfectly.

And, about all of the completely irrelevant news…if I want to read the news I go to an actual news site so I see relevant and important content instead of reality tv news and what celebrities are wearing or had for lunch that day from gossip sites full of misspelled words. Ugh.

Super disappointed in the update and will use another browser from now on.

I used to love this app. Bing is my go-to because of the rewards points, so I used this app for EVERYTHING.

Until a few months ago when they decided to DESTROY IT. I can no longer open multiple searches at once or keep searches open after closing the app (ie, if I was browsing a webpage and closed the app, I couldn’t immediately return to that page when reopening). I can’t even access the pages through the history, as it only shows search history. That was an inconvenience, certainly, but the app still worked for quick searches and I would just keep browsing to Safari.

Then I noticed that it will randomly log me out of my outlook account, so I don’t accumulate any of the points for my searches. THAT was extremely frustrating, but at least seems to not be an issue anymore.

And NOW I can’t even navigate to any pages when I search! When I click a link to check out a page, I am redirected to the home page. This takes the app from mildly annoying to outright USELESS.

It’s visually more appealing than the old app design, but it’s a functional nightmare. It just doesn’t work. I’d much rather use a plain app that works than a pretty piece of useless junk.

There is no point in keeping the app on my phone if I can’t actually look anything up.