Microsoft's newest search engine, Bing, has gained a little more traction in the fight against Google's web search dominance. Bing took an 8.23% cut of US web searches for the month of June which is up from Microsoft's previous search engine which served only 7.81% percent of searches for May.Microsoft is refusing to let Google win the online search wars and is promoting Bing with online and television advertisements. Microsoft is still investing heavily and the latest rumor is that it still considers partnering with Yahoo as a viable option to gain a stronger foothold in the search engine market.
Despite the small gain for Bing it is still trailing Google who took 78.48 percent of searches in the same time period. One contributing factor that keeps Google on top is that its innovative approach to incorporating its searches into email and other clients keeps users coming back to the search engine giant.
Despite still trailing far behind, Microsoft is committed to the long term viability of Bing. As Microsoft continues to try and take more market share from Google expect to see Bing incorporated into more Microsoft products.
Not really.
Google may be subjectively better for some queries, but there is no reason but loyalty to argue "far better".
Most of the responses I've seen so far are "Bing is OK/impressive/equal, but I
m fine sticking with Google." Basically, when given two equal search engines, they stay loyal to Google until something forces them to use Bing instead.
I believe many people have that bias going though, and that's something you can't beat.
If at some point Bing or w/e gives better results I see the argument being "Bing is good but google is good enough or just as good for me." And so on.
Results are subjective.
Talking about quality yahoo! delivers the most accurate results, but poor marketing and it's lack of innovation are the reasons why it's lacking behind google.
I find Bing and msn irritating bcoz of the fact that they have been designed for high bandwidth users. Unwanted Video ads popping up every time you search or go to any article.
http://blindsearch.fejus.com/
between bing's related searches, video search (Which DESTROYS google's on pretty much every level from results to interface to speed) and the tabs for "references" that automatically take you to wiki,and other web-based encyclopedias... it's just a better experience for me.
It does for me.
It is freaking horrible, maybe it's because I'm in Canada, but it's useless for me.
I also don't like it when it adds in results for what it thinks i'm searching for, rather than just showing the results i'm asking for
It is freaking horrible, maybe it's because I'm in Canada, but it's useless for me.
I also don't like it when it adds in results for what it thinks i'm searching for, rather than just showing the results i'm asking for
+1
Care to let us know why you think bing is rubbish? I can claim that product/service X is rubbish, if I don't support my motion I'm yet another troll in the endless sea of internet trolls.
MS is also bombarding the media with Bing ads right now. It's like they know if Bing can't beat Google now it's all over for MSN/Live/Bing/BBQ, so I think they're throwing everything they have left at Google. It's not going to work. The search engine with the best results is always going to win in the end, and that search engine is Google.
If Bing truly had more relevant results than Google it might make some difference, but it doesn't really. The "decision engine" thing is hype, and people know it is.
The real question is why can't MS get better search results than Google? What's Google's magic, and why can't MS, or anyone else, figure it out?
I have found Bing to be ok for some things, but completely uselss for others. For example, I searched for "top rss feeds" on bing, and the results were useless, it just listed a bunch of sites and there rss feeds. Doing the same search on google returns a bunch of sites with lists of the top rss feeds in various categories. Try it, it still fails. I don't know what Microsoft are doing, but for a lot of searches it just isn't working, whereas google works everytime I have tried it. I found wolfram to be a better decision engine than bing.
Another one, reported in a story elsewhere, someone likes bing and was looking for the bing blog, talking about updates. So they searched on bing for "bing blog", and it did not give them the correct details. They had to go to google to get to the bing live search blog - what a joke.
Microsoft does something to the results, whereas google produces mostly raw results (removing the spam of course). This is where bing fails.
It's always good to see healthy competition.
I'm posting from personal experience but I know more than a few IE8 users that would have no idea/not care enough to change it. In fact, the majority of people that would change it are on alternate browsers, where Bing is not the default search engine.
I really get tired of this kind of claim. Nothing has changed.
If your OEM has set your default search engine to Google, then it will remain your default search engine. All the laptops I've had have been like this and no amount of installing/reinstalling of Internet Explorer will make Live or Bing the default search engine.
MSN/Live/Bing is only ever your default search engine if you chose it or your installed from media in which it was already the default and you have not changed from it.
If your OEM has set your default search engine to Google, then it will remain your default search engine. All the laptops I've had have been like this and no amount of installing/reinstalling of Internet Explorer will make Live or Bing the default search engine.
MSN/Live/Bing is only ever your default search engine if you chose it or your installed from media in which it was already the default and you have not changed from it.
Fresh installs. It is the default. And most people don't change the default. Ever library computer I've ever used had Live Search as the search engine.
I was disputing that installing IE8 over IE7 changes your default search engine, which you seemed to imply was the cause for the market share jump.
As an example, try the following:
Kerry Wood - Bing
Kerry Wood - Google
Not only does Bing put the information about his last three starts right up top, but the sidebar with links to stats, bio, etc. is amazing.
I've removed Google from my search engine list.
Good post!
I like Bings video previews, their never-ending images (loads more as you get close to the end instead of having multiple pages) which works wonders for people like my father who prefer to search using images instead of searching websites that match his text, the main thing I dont like about their images search is its sorting features. Yes it has more than google, but it often shows me 4xx by 6xx images or something of the sort when I select to show my Large images. I dont know about you guys, but on a 1920x1200 monitor, 400x600 is not a very large image at all.....its quite small and should be at the highest, classed at a medium sized image.
That being said I still prefer google but I will attempt to test out bing more in the near future to see how it compares to general searches when I am looking for something (likely search for something on google, then go to bing and see if I can find the same or at least similar topic under bing using the same search terms).
Google has been great for me but when I used the blind browser search tool, Bing came out slightly ahead. I still use Google however out of habit. Bing isn't 'rubbish' just because you don't like Microsoft. The only rubbish are those who write something off because they feel as though a particular company can't do anything right, whether it's Microsoft, Apple, etc. All of these tools serve a purpose and your OPINIONS are no better than anyone elses, including those who disagree with you.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Have+you+trie...m=QBLH&filt=all
You see, results are completely useless to this conversation.
My problem with Bing is that it tries to interpret what you are asking too much, which works on some cases, and not on others.
and Google for Firefox.
Bing: -Love the text preview to the right of the returned results, image search "feels" a bit better since it is all on page (just dont like paging...).
Google - autocomplete seems to be more intelligent.
Bing is a big improvement over Live in terms of usability and relevance - give it 6 months or a year, and it should improve. Google has had many years to mature, so with time, Bing will hopefully close the gap.
If anything, should be a win-win regardless of which engine you prefer - the potential for competition between Bing & Google can only lead to improvements in either or both.
Google search + Made by Google = Excellent and fast
Microsoft finally has search done right. Great job.
The translator in Bing is awesome though. I will definitely use that instead of Google's.
I also love the Bing commercials - hilarious.
I enjoyed the vomit commercial, but they seemed to have pulled it.
Maybe people will like what they are seeing and convert and bring along friend and/or new search users and this is just the first step to something great for Microsoft. But as of right now, we don't really know. I think everyone, including the folks at Microsoft understand that if they are going to make a significant dent in the Google hold, they will have to make serious innovations and make them before Google has a chance to respond. It's tough to get people out of their comfort zone but there are a lot of ideas spawning in the search field and most can be adapted to these top-tier engines.
I'd also like to say that for those interested in trying different searches, check out www.eZanga.com for a pretty nice meta-search experience that is gaining popularity and improving its service.
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