Buzz Out Loud Lounge: Google's worried about Bing

its all about the results

Having used Google for so long, I know how Google will interpret most of the stuff I put in there. There is a certain skill to asking the right question of search engines and at the moment Google 'gets' me. Terrible, I know

Bing was launched when I was attending some training for work, and one thing we were using the Internet for was downloading a lot of tools from the System Center Operations Manager Blog (no one knows why these tools don't ship with the product, but they don't).

Google got it first hit every time.

http://www.google.com.au/search?q=ops+mgr+team+blog&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficial&client=firefox-a

Bing, no where near:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=ops+mgr+team+blog&go=&form=QBLH&filt=all

As the training was run by a Microsoft employee he wanted use to try Bing. That didn't last very long.

The market share Microsoft have taken early has been at the expense of Yahoo more than anyone. It is because people are trying something new and shiny. And is it SHINY! (come on Google, can we have shiny.google.com for a pretty version of the engineer friendly white?)

Microsoft can call it a decision engine all they want, everyone wants to search the Internet, and Bing just doesn't cut it, yet.

Also, check out Blind search, this is cool:
http://blindsearch.fejus.com/

Cheers, Tim.