Poll: Compare Bing and Google using at least five not so popular queries.

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Hilariously, the GMail login page was the number 8 result for me on Bing for one of my stranger queries (one of several queries trying to figure out where I can buy grits--the real kind, not instant--in northern California). Apparently where to buy grits locally is a very, very hard concept for a search engine; or maybe I'm just living in a fantasy land and there is no such thing as a place to buy grits in northern California. Google also fails, but not quite so disastrously or embarrassingly (the Bing results were not only useless, they were mostly spam).

It's almost, but not quite equal. Google wins on nearly every query, by a tiny margin (though Google also had a hard time with most of my queries).