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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/AVvXsEjokrdmjOMH3kKJAwXRaiRiULFDQoO1wr8ra2myjEadK9gPKRf2U9XcN1Fi21hv3i4SEKHJxJt8zjODFi0or8tCI6rT8ujBxdHJawTpLDySFIbwXiNwUOojgBy_B_uxStLSk-tOEQ/s640/google-bing-dumas-age.jpg)
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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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