Microsoft is planning to relaunch it’s failed Live search as Bing in June 2009 and first impressions from the promotional video are it looks pretty good.
Naturally and without fail the Linux and Apple community is already saying that Bing will suck. But of course those kind of comments are said about every single Microsoft product by these people who smell of red bull, body odour and cheeto’s.
Unlike features available in Google 9at the time of writing), Microsoft seems to have implemented a stack load of actual useful features into Bing. Ability to view reviews without leaving the search engine. Ability to display results based on type “reviews”, “local”, “shopping” and a few others are welcomed auditions.
It’s easy for people to proclaim it won’t be any more successful than live.com, but I think that’s the mentality. The natural feeling is to hate everything Microsoft creates before it’s even released and without even properly giving it a go.
Most people that use Google only use it because it’s the trendy thing to do. The term “Google It” which is widely used in modern culture shows just how powerful Google is. While it won’t be an easy task for a new search engine to take away Google market share, Google still have the advantage of all that information.
I don’t have much of a hope for up-to-date results like Google or Yahoo! but if it’s got a new engine and Microsoft are finally indexing more sites more frequently they might have a chance.
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Sure, they’ve got a chance but Google seems so ahead of its time that it destroys any competition. It’ll be good to finally see some decent competition come into the scene after Google’s long monopolistic reign. I’ll give it a try once it will be launched but I gotta say I’m a huge fan of Google. The fact that once you type in google.com into your url address bar and you land on a page where it only says Google and a search bar underneith, I love it. It’s so plain, unlike Yahoo with ads and news and all kindsa bullshit. Google’s sick but I’m willing to try new shite as well. Cheers!
I’m also hopeful that Bing would be further improved. It has a lot of potential. However, I’d still go for Google for now.
Just went looking on bing for a part. I am just a dumb engineer who was looking for information.
Bing went black. Google gave me the resource I wanted in the fourth link.
Bing bang went the gates mill. bing bang went the bell, only once.
Wholesale Printing,
It really comes down to preference and what you’re comfortable with. Bing has a catchier name, and Google is getting stale.
Just Bill,
You my friend need to lay off the drugs or quite possibly in your case, inhaling exhaust fumes.
Soooo…ooo, [poor]I think I will keep my home page Google …
Thanks for the stock Billy, but no thanks for the advances which look like premature releases of past abortions.
Shall I sell now? What fool released something which does not work?
Wholesale, you obviously do not use the web for work. When people want to index almost anything, we “GOOGLE” it. For most of us who know how to use search engines, we get answers in the first page.
For the others, you get the results you get but, in my experience, poor results. If you are looking for the best game players, you may not be disappointed but the web is for more than that!
Surfing the net for anything with Bing is Sloooooooooooooower and tiresome.
Get rid of Bing and the ads on TV piss me off because are in my opinion false.
Many owners of small web sites are deeply frustrated at the poor results they’re getting from bing. I can achieve #1 placement in a google or yahoo! search for words like “Idries Shah successor” or “sarmouni” and yet hard pressed to find an entry in bing. And — yikes! — yahoo! search is soon going to be powered by bing as well.
Bing demands quality backlinks and these are hard for small sites to acquire.
Microsoft Bing would be the closet competitor of Google. but i still use Google because it shows more relevant results on the serp.
i have been evaluating the search results of Microsoft Bing compared to Google and they are comparable. Bing gives almost the same relevant search results just like Google.
Your blog definitely sucks.
Skqr,
I would just love to see how much better your blog is than mine. Please post up a link so we can all marvel at how great your blog is.
Bing sucks
first hotmail, then msn, later live.com, now bing.
Not yet yahoo, but since they seem to believe in changing the name changes a quality problem, maybe they’ll call it bong next year.
Same old bullshit, blatant copy of the google interface, irrelevant and censored search results.
And as for the google haters out there:
Fighting the Google monopoly by switching to MS or Apple ?
Really, what are you, nuts ?
If we’re gonna have a monopoly, it should be a monopoly of a good and inovative company, like Google. Not the MS junk quality, and not the waaaay overpriced even more monopolistic than MS Apple crap.
I use both Bing and Google search engine and i dont see much difference in their search results. I use google for searching hard to find academic topics and Bing for general search.
Bing still is horrid next to Google. MS has had many months to fix BIG problems, but sit on their hands expecting people to jump from Google to Bing.
Here is a example.
I am a real bad speller. The spell checker in Google Search is really, really, good and saves me tons of hours. I typed in the same misspelled search terms many times in Bing and got no matches!
Bing currently is worthless to me.
Here is a good example of a hard spell check match. Type this in Bing and Google and see my point…
“feeding matija poppies”
The word should be spelled “Matilija”