Comments on: One in Three Searchers May Prefer Bing Over Google

By: Brad

Brad — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:23:12 +0000

We at User Centric did a similar study, with more participants and similar results. Check it out at: http://www.usercentric.com/news/2009/06/08/eye-tracking-bing-vs-google -first-look

By: Jacques Snyman | Business Cards

Jacques Snyman | Business Cards — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:01:27 +0000

The analytics are out and Bing is definitely making a splash down here in South Africa. It is proving much more popular than Yahoo! (which admittedly doesn’t offer local search here) and than MSN ever was, and I’ve seen this reflecting in analytics for a range of websites.

Microsoft is onto something good here, and along with the advent of WolframAlpha Google isn’t looking as secure as six months ago!

By: Joseph Hadley

Joseph Hadley — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:51:58 +0000

I actually like Bing, enough that I switched a few days after the search — er decision — engine was released. The interface was much more friendly and warm and I find it takes me fewer keystrokes to find what I want, so I spend shorter time on Bing than I did on Google. But, I agree that Google’s results are more relevant than Bing’s. Of course, as Martinez says, what defines relevance is what people are looking for, and unfortuantely, also relevance is defined by what people have come to expect — Google’s results. But I switched anyway, and I don’t miss Google at all.

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:24:26 +0000

Asking indoctrinated Google users to judge relevance is like asking people who have read only propaganda to determine the rational truth of the universe. A sampling of 12 users is, as you point out, way too small to be significant. But Google’s definition of relevance (using Wikipedia as a news source, for example) is laughable.

By: Frank Reed

Frank Reed — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:08:58 +0000

Did Dentyne actually only talk to 5 dentists then? What are the odds that 4 of them would make the right choice?

This is pretty funny though considering the state of Internet Research which is more like the Wild West than anywhere else in the Internet game.

So you know, Andy, you have a 100% approval rating on this post (1 out of 1 liked it).