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Apple's Siri dumps Google in favour of Microsoft's Bing in iOS 7

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It's either one or the other with the case in iOS.

Personally, I prefer Bing search over Google, but they both seem to have their pros and cons.
 

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I took that challenge and Bing won 4 out of 5!!
 

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Hey guys, like the editor of MacWorld said so elegantly.... "Microsoft is no longer the enemy!" :p
 

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I just did a search for a story about me as a kid in my old band and Bing found more URL's about it than Google has ever found.
 

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I thought Siri had been using Bing since the beginning?
 

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