Comments on: Totally Unbiased Criticism of Bing . . . from Yahoo and Google

By: Daryl Formen

Daryl Formen — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:25:23 +0000

I hear rumors that Google is eating Schmidt’s words. Google is supposed to be having a meeting of its bigwigs to analyze Google — in an endeavor engineered and lead by Sergey Brin himself.

In the meantime, I’ve switched to Bing after using it for two weeks.
I get good results — not quite up to par with Google, but the other features (Travel, Health, media) and the look and feel are nice. Google seems dated.

By: John

John — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:06:54 +0000

I tried Bing, and I wish they would sort their results by date. News and links that are from 2005 at the top of the list while the newer stuff is buried makes research that much more difficult and irrelevant

By: CD Rates - ChrisCD

CD Rates - ChrisCD — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:56:19 +0000

I used Bing. I liked it. It seemed to give good results. But it isn’t paying me. They should offer some monetary benefits to publishers to host the ads and encourage people to try it out.

I think the other big problem is for most people, when you think search, you think Google. When you think nice portal site for maps, yellow pages, etc. you think Yahoo.

It seems like such a big hurdle to get over, but Google did it. If they stay committed and keep up the press, free or paid, they’ve got a chance.

By: Ben Franklin

Ben Franklin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:23:54 +0000

Love the title! My experience mirrors several above. I’ve used Bing. It’s OK. Nothing there to make me switch from Google, though.

By: Outsource Software Solutions Florida

Outsource Software Solutions Florida — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:17:34 +0000

I agree that Bing is another new innovation of Microsoft but its success cannot be assured. Users hardly want to use something new of the kind that already exist and is running smoothly.

It is difficult to distract the users of Google until you have something different to offer.

By: Kathy Howe

Kathy Howe — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:05:32 +0000

I’m a Google user…tried Yahoo but found it to “busy” and distracting. I kinda liked Bing and have used it a couple of times with good results.

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:39:39 +0000

I don’t see this launch as an event Google needs to worry about, but their continuing decline in relevance should be a MAJOR concern for Google.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:07:45 +0000

Well you can’t listen to Carol Bartz, she’s too old to understand the internet.

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:05:41 +0000

Nothing surprising there. I guess if you’re Google and Yahoo, you need to respond somehow with all the press that Bing is getting. To me, Bing is a lot like Ask, except that they’ve actually updated their search algorithm this century.