Comments on: Study Suggests People Prefer Bing’s Design To Google’s, But Still Won’t Switch

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:20:50 +0000

Bing is currently dropping sites and pages like theres no tomorrow (just like MSN always has done)i’ve noticed this with several sites.. they do come back though in the majority of cases.
Bing is a joke.. the all new search engine, yet behaves exactly the same as MSN and returns the same results.

By: Search1x

Search1x — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 03:29:22 +0000

This research validated my blog post that Bing’s results page really is an improvement over Google’s offering and will deliver productivity gains for the searchers.

Bing is all about the results page and for good reason. Check it out here.

http://www.sear...h-results-page/

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Bing kontra google | Korporuh — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 04:26:33 +0000

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By: Bing has better design than Google study says | Bing tips and tricks

Bing has better design than Google study says | Bing tips and tricks — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:44:42 +0000

[...] A search for a local hotel, however, produces similar results on both search engines in that area just below the top ads (a map with local listings). So there was not much difference between the two in the how much time was spent looking at the top ads related to that search. In all cases, the ads on the right were only noticed about half the time. Read the whole article on Tech Crunch. [...]

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Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:10:19 +0000

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It’s Official (Kind Of): People Prefer the Kindle | Spin Valley Post — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:30:56 +0000

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Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:02:32 +0000

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Why Bing isn’t teh Suck | Bradville — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 08:38:06 +0000

[...] and it will come from Facebook. The UI is indeed more intuitive and easier on the eyes, but it also offers a better use of web page real estate. The links to all the other parts of Bing’s ecosystem are right at the left of the search [...]

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Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:18:08 +0000

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By: Chris von Nieda | Vertical Measures

Chris von Nieda | Vertical Measures — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:11:37 +0000

I just got out of our weekly managers meeting and during our discussion I suggested we should start changing our way of thinking. Currently that thought process (purely from an SEO/Link Building perspective because that is what we do) is that “Google is the only one that matters”. My suggestion was that we need to start thinking about Bing as “mattering”. I personally have not switched but Bing made a positive impact on me the few times I have tried it. I think Bing is going to start mattering and a number of the comments left here are proof of that.

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Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:27:15 +0000

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By: Searchers like Bing Better but Plan to Stay with Google « Search Engine Optimization Eblog

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:29:51 +0000

[...] findings from the study are reported in this TechCrunch article, which says even if Bing proves to be just as good as Google, it may not matter since [...]

By: Joe Schmoe

Joe Schmoe — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:50:59 +0000

Are you joking? The Bing results for this (assuming you’ve been laid off and are looking for a job forum to search for new work) are FAR superior to Google’s — theirs are all about recent news items or old archived news items — nothing helpful. This is why Google is starting to lose market share — cluttered irrelevance.

By: Joe Schmoe

Joe Schmoe — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 20:33:29 +0000

Google is littered with old/irrelevant links with no way to exclude from future search results…

Bing has delivered consistently excellent results so far — superior to what I get from Google; Bing is now my default search provider. It was just that easy.

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A Digital Outrigger / Library Usability Links 6/29/09 — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:58:40 +0000

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By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 16:10:51 +0000

Here’s why I will not use Bing until they seriously improve their results:

http://www.goog...=the+pirate+bay
http://www.bing...=the+pirate+bay

Which, incidentally, is also why I suspect MS of some massive astroturfing, judging by the comments here.

I’ve given Bing a half hour try, and it came up with results that were often so massively flawed that nobody in their right mind would find them useful.

By: » I navigatori preferiscono Bing, ma sono ancora fedeli a Google

» I navigatori preferiscono Bing, ma sono ancora fedeli a Google — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:52:09 +0000

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By: Soloren

Soloren — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:22:08 +0000

I wouldn’t which both because of habits and because I dislike the MS brand.

However I do agree that Google doozed off on innovating especially around advanced search. For years it was just a tiny option (in size 8 font) and a bunch of search field.
It was efficient. Just not appealing.

I was excited to see them improve and add “show options” recently. But it’s still hidden away (and only available for Google.com – meaning USA).

Google said they liked competition. Personally, I hope that pushes them forward to innovate… but I actually hope MS doesn’t ever become the leader. We’ve seen how they handled this in the past…

However I wouldn’t want Google to become the Microsoft of the web either… That all too dominant player either buying or suffocating innovation.
We’ve started to see Google copy too many business in the past few years.

I really liked the Yahoo Boss idea, where people could create custom search engine. I also liked the Google experiment with users ranking results… I think Google should explore some of this space.

I do think that people are underestimating the amazing advantage Google has over Bing. Not just in term of user habits but relevance. I’ve used so many of their search engines (patent search, book serach, news alerts…)… all of these specialized search engines that they have built over the years and which feed nicely in their Universal Search Engine.

Actually I recently got a great idea to change the whole searching space upside down… If any investors wants to hear me out: soloren2001[at]gmail.com
PS: no I do not have a search start-up. Just had a great idea while drinking coffee and wondering about the bing vs google battle

By: Doug Dunn

Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:03:33 +0000

Bing will bring microsoft to the competive marrket place, just like apple brought iphone to the marketplace.

By: binger

binger — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:58:48 +0000

OK, here is my problem with Bing (and other Microsoft search products): it’s not intelligent:

Try searching on bing with the 4 keywords: job, layoff, networking, forum (for the US region and .com sites only):
the first 5 pages of results are all from either jobsearch.about.com or net-temps.com. Oh, that’s helpful, huh?
Compare this naive list with Google’s result, and I bet you’ll agree that Microsoft still has a long way to go to catch up with Google in the search engine market.

By: Thomas Boltze

Thomas Boltze — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 12:44:55 +0000

I tried bing.com and found a pretty good reason that people aren’t switching: the search results are just not as relevant and there is lots of garbage in them. That they stole the UI from google to make it less obvious it is a Microsoft thing doesn’t help. he way they changed it makes the page load slowly and I absolutely have no need for a search engine to guess where I am located and send me a regional site.

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By: from206

from206 — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 05:20:47 +0000

biggest BS ever..how much did M$ pay these “researchers”? M$ version of search sucks, always has no matter how many times they change the brand name, its still crap.

By: tommy

tommy — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 04:16:45 +0000

Bing has some pretty pictures, and it sounds like there are fans here.

Personally, I use Google for search exclusively, but would love to see Yahoo get this kind of excitement, but no matter what MS comes out with I won’t use it.

MS should have been broken into two companies years ago as per Judge Jackson’s ruling. If they take over the web, we’ll all be sorry…as they have a history of tieing any thing that they dominate with a bunch of crappy software. If you prefer to use a browser other than IE, you should worry about MS becoming dominant on the web, or one day you won’t be able to complete common tasks online with any browser except IE.

Call me a MS hater, its true. I’ve done business with MS, Yahoo and Google, and came about my dislike for all things MS through those interactions.