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It's obvious that Google replaced "ny" with "New York City", while Bing replaced it with "New York State". If you're searching for [new york], Google will show information about the city, while Bing's data refers to the state.
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To disambiguate your query, you need to search for [ny city population] or [ny state population] and both search engines will return similar answers.
What if you search for [ronaldo age]? Here's what you get: 28 years (Google) and 36 years (Bing). Google mentions that the answer is for Cristiano Ronaldo, but Bing doesn't.
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Both answers are OK because there are two football players known as Ronaldo: Ronaldo Luís Nazário de Lima (born 18 September 1976, retired Brazilian player) and Cristiano Ronaldo dos Santos Aveiro (born 5 February 1985, Portuguese football player - Real Madrid). Most of the top search results from both Bing and Google are about Cristiano Ronaldo.
To make things more confusing, Bing also provides information about Cristiano Ronaldo:
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More examples:
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![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixndJXQusCDPOIgrZ3_bsRAZ2Bx7CZ9aqGyNX0pUQuTTE8pmyE9xhC2uZ_oKsBcLLmJDT1fQIWUXyyz_fOq23vg6dPzUy5fLpgcTh2Ejei1wV_bLHz7kE2EgRX7a7ddevtomSkbWwriFq8/s640/google-bing-dumas-age.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijbNLUy0UFo9bKpotUVQbqpHof14-7W8_oxvrAZMKy7eSV9rPkASN2X-IH5klaP-3_g7wzFgfRvOIWcad1TniVBzGSxemjO5hgOnf4LtK17mf0T3wOrF92yPCB0BMNHAvvRA6FtIYCk5Uw/s640/google-bing-alexandre-dumas-age.jpg)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE_3FcWNF4DI3k9m9eiE2y8ten7s4hdpSAi8cXjmJOrHXQ6_I64K6HvxuYOO49kY_QZexMwurEVwXONKA3Xp88-vC9GPkrvm6iIP3i6tWXusoFmmNuuLku-KP-Q_LuBkBoKK-0QRX6C98p/s640/google-bing-bush-age.png)
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIZ2lSg-UguCmvwR5DUUeL5Pst-TnWGBPiiOKPo54fyk-yWSw1D1Xbc3CACZvmeUM8DJhw7S3sL412o1v0z0LSrYzfEkMb8uj4P-IojXg5wjlnnVwEdWGWiWoEzz1gtBH64ijP3e97EtBR/s640/google-bing-star-trek.jpg)
To sum up, it's a good idea to disambiguate your query and to check the answers provided by search engines.
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