afpierce quote: "I don't need any advice from you."
THAT was uncalled for & plain out RUDE.
You post a message here about your feelings & thoughts about the facts of the two search engines. To that, people would 'presume' (rightfully so) you actually wanted a reply back. Most people do. So, you get one. What's next? The first words you 'snottily' post back, "I don't need any advice from you."
WTH did you bother for in the first place then? Not wanting an answer or input? Just griping for others to read? Um, never mind. I'll smart remark back to you: "I don't need your answer" to me, because I already know that is exactly why. Your first 'smart remark' back at Andy made it obvious.
(BTW, too bad you couldn't see past your nose to notice that Andy actually agrees with the bases of your gripe, but he already knows that griping is fruitless on it and has already resigned himself to doing exactly what he 'suggested' to you. A suggestion to YOU from his own advice to HIMSELF. A suggestion that we are ALL realize we are having to succumb to.)
*Take note: I am not saying this for YOUR benefit, but am saying it because I will not sit by and watch someone be knocked down or bad mouthed for doing what was expected. There is a wonderful rule in life. Take some notes on it. "If you don't like or don't want the answers, then don't ask the question". A slight twist on that, but is still the same rule: "If you don't want replies to remarks... then don't make the remarks".
I've had people say to my face, "I didn't want your opinion, I just wanted you to listen." That is basically what your inferred first remark showed. My answer to that has always been, "Then go talk to walls, they have nothing better to do than listen to you. You will be happy then. They don't talk back!"
Okay... gripe away. I'll just go back to "JUST reading" posts.
Wait! P.S.
(I take that advice about walls very seriously myself. When I don't want input or opinions from others, I then talk to myself or talk to the walls. It works just fine. In doing so, I got to 'spout off'. BUT, that was the 'end' of the converstion. Can't get a two-way going with the walls. They are 'mute' by design.)