Scott Hanselman

From what I tried so far, google is far superior still.
Just try some random ones:
"U-2" - Should give you the group and the aircraft of that name (both ok)
"U-6" - Should give you unemployment numbers (bing fails) (ups, did USA reach 15.8% actual unemployment)
"submarine" - Should give you something about submaries (bing gives something with submarine in the domain name, just not good enough)
"Peter Pan" - Should give movie/book results (Both ok, but the bing results are half dutch and ukranian sites that I would never be able to understand without google translate)
"7" - Should give 7-zip, windows 7 (Bing totally fails with only korean sites)

So... Not worth my time to ever visit that engine again.

Problem is, "Bing" (*snicker*) will never make any dint in Google's market share unless it is significantly, instantly, obviously and unambiguously better. And it isn't.

Inspired by that "Hey, grand-dad can be cool too"-name, I tried a search for "Chanandler Bong". Bing gave me a list of useless myspace profiles, Google sent me straight to the urban dictionary, which explains that "In Friends, [Chanandler Bong is] Chandler Bing's name as it appears on his TV guide when delivered."

I searched for ("Sancho Fernandes" hi5) in both Bing and Google, and Bing yield no results. =(

That came as a surprises since I looks like, (to me), that Bing is better when looking for technical content.

Note: I used de US link.

Cheers ;)

I tried all of the searches people say returned bad results, and I can't reproduce any of them. Everything I tried is returning valid, useful results.

My version of Chrome already had Bing in the list of search engines, along with some other candidates.

It appears that once you've performed a search, Chrome adds it to the list automatically.

If "Bing" stood for "Bing Is Not Google" then you'd have yourself a bit of an infinite loop on your hands :) ...

Some people need to get real about search engines. Google was not that good when it started - and it still is not as good as it could be. Yet people praise Google because of AdWords / AdSense and making money from ads - not because of the search engine results. If you really want to test Bing then make it your default and actually try to use it for a few weeks - not one or two searches. These one or two searches posts are just silly. I can do one or two searches on Google and show fails too. Look at Tablet PC and you'll see sites that haven't been updated in years near the top - FAIL. Look for netbooks and see trash scrapper sites - FAIL. Look for UMPC and get websites that are dead - FAIL. ROTFLOL. Want me to keep going? And that's just the first few minutes of trying to use Google after not looking in the past 6 months. Google FAILS. Google SUCKS. Google Oogle Boogle Puke.

Most other pages (including this one) turn the Firefox or IE search button blue, indicating that you can add them to your search providers. Why does the Bing page not just have this embedded link too? When I first visited in Firefox, there was a clickable link on the page to add it, but when I clicked it and then declined, that link disappeared - apparently permanently.

Tried looking for Ipod touch in UK with various search engines:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=ipod+touch&form=QBRE&scope=web&filt=all
http://www.ratingsworld.co.uk/ProductList.aspx?cat=0&txt=ipod+touch&Sort=3&Price=110_399&Brand=9&BrandName=Apple
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=ipod+touch&meta=cr%3DcountryUK%7CcountryGB&aq=f&oq=
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?rd=r1&p=ipod+touch&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-838
http://uk.ask.com/web?q=ipod+touch&dm=ctry&qsrc=0&o=312&l=dir&siteid=

Bing presentation looks clean.
The ratingsworld shopping search engine gives me what I want when shopping.
Google, Yahoo and Ask all give similar results.

I think MS will fall down because their crawlers are not as active as those of Google and Yahoo.

first time you go to bing page, if you go to the options in chrome and change the default search, bing is already in the list at the bottom. you just have to make it default. another way to add it rather than manually.

I just tried Bing for the first time and I love it!

Bing Vs Wave , can bing be up to the mark.
Bing is nice i could find inforamtion , but how will microsoft get google traffic to use Bing.
what is their plan, cna they beat it.

thanks
sunil

Hey I searched for "custom software development portland or" and my company showed up on the first page. I think I like Bing! Look for www.custominfosystems.com on the first page.

Seems quite nice :)

I like it. The searches are returning useful, relevant links for me.

But what I also love is the image search. You get a scrolling list of photos which fills dynamically as you scroll down. Then as you click on a photo, the search results get shown down the left side of your screen while the image you clicked on is shown to you - so you don't have to go back and forth or juggle multiple tabs to look at multiple results. Its like an instant slideshow of your search results.

Videos is even better. Here, as you mouse over one of the results, the video starts playing right there in the thumbnail ! Makes searching for the right video much much faster.

I also like the way it fetches extra text from the returned links and shows them on the right side as you hover over a result. This makes it easier to decide if the link contains the text you are looking for in the right context.

The whole user experience is much better than Google at this point. And while search quality is obviously the prime criteria, the user experience matters a lot too.

Seems to work as expected, might give it a try as my default search engine the coming days, google needs more competition :) The guys at bing might want to tweak the face recognition on images though, as it showed me a picture of a guitar :P

Ahh, reminders of Groundhog Day...

"Ned... Ryerson?"   
"Bing!"

Or... Chandler Bing! (friends)

Loving BING! already... http://blog.noop.se/archive/2009/06/01/bing-is-open.aspx

Ahh hell! Using Bing! for a month:

I’ll take you up on that

I use bing to search for crack XP serial keys: Win Xp Serial, and it lists the keys :) very objective search or decision engine

I agree einarwh, if Bing or any search engine want's to seriously take market share from google it has to be radically different or innovative and provide something that google doesn't. Just trying to providing slightly better results won't by far be enough. Google is to synonymous with internet search that for people to move away requires something else. It almost like the huge market share Internet Explorer had a couple of years ago, while better alternative browser existed it has taken years for users to switch and still IE6 has a huge market share, the analogy is not 100% accurate, but the basics are the same.

@Torkel:

If Bing wants to succeed in search and give some real competition to Google, providing better search results is the first thing they need to focus on. Nobody will waste their time if Bing can't provide better results.

So far I dont mind it. I will use it for the month of June as well and test the results. Definetly better than MSN and cleaner as well, but we'll see

I am trying Bing as my default search in Chrome. I want to like it. The video search and sampling makes for some snappy info gathering. There seems to be a growing number of things to like. Am I sensing that Microsoft has a new generation of cool programmers beavering away in Redmond? Bring it on guys! More! And thx to Scott for the tip on making Bing the default in Chrome because I had not managed it on my own.

Bing Is Not Google; Is MS refering to their search engine as GOD via Douglas Hofstadter?

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