Quite by accident, I discovered this today. I was working on my bedroom computer where I still had Google set as my default search provider. I wanted to create a tiny URL for a post, but I didn’t have this computer set up yet with links to that site. So I naturally typed “Tiny URL” in the search box. Here’s what I got

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I don’t know what www.tiny.cc is, but it’s not the site I was looking for. In fact, I don’t see it there anywhere. So I switched to Bing and here are the results

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Ah – www.tinyurl.com is the first result and “best match,” as it should be.

So for those who are saying Bing’s results are not as good as Google’s, this random little test seems to say otherwise. It might not hold true for every search, but I’m just sayin’ … .

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