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Lately I've been using Bing instead of Google and I must say, I am very impressed. I have also been getting 25% of organic traffic to my web site from Bing alone which is pretty good. Google refuses to find my site entirely since its new...

Your thoughts on Bing becoming #1?
 
I've noticed that google vs. bing rankings are looking suspiciously similar... My site dropped 10 spots on bing, next google update my site dropped 10 spots...

My site rose 10 spots on google, then it rose on bing...
 
I totally agree their new algorithm is very similar I have noticed. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or bad though! I have noticed that Bing doesn't bring Wiki results at the very top like Google does. Bing tends to add newer sites for a certain amount of time... probably to give them some hope lol
 
I find bing to generally be quicker in response, even though the page(s) seem to contain a lot more information/clutter. I'm a fan.. but I don't see myself switching over just yet. Google has just because ingrained when I do search.. I don't even realize it when i do search, I just go straight to google out of reflex.
 
I haven't had an issue with Google and they've always done a great job at search. I see no reason to even try Bing. Look at Microsoft's history with the web browser. Netscape were innovative. Microsoft used their muscle to develop a competitive product and push them out of business. Microsoft then stopped doing much development work on IE.

I'll stick with Google. They seem to be pretty committed to innovating on this front. MS is only interested now, because the growth is down in Windows and Office. Were it not for that, they wouldn't really care that much.
 
More results with google and its become ubiquitous with searching on the internet... why change now? It does its job very well.
 
I like Bing, and I switched fulltime to it.

Google was the cool kid for long enough, and it certainly works well. However, long gone are the days of 14.4k dialup and I simply like to see a little more color and imagery in my search result page.

Other than that, more results is never really an issue, search engines output information overload either which way, it doesn't matter if one returns 2million results and the other comes up with 3million.

Then again, I am not an MS hater, in fact I love MS products from hardware to software and I own MS shares by proxy (though I own Google shares by proxy as well). Search engine algorithms aside, I use Bing because it just looks better.
 
general said:
I see no reason to even try Bing. Look at Microsoft's history with the web browser. Netscape were innovative. Microsoft used their muscle to develop a competitive product and push them out of business. Microsoft then stopped doing much development work on IE.

I'll stick with Google. They seem to be pretty committed to innovating on this front. MS is only interested now, because the growth is down in Windows and Office. Were it not for that, they wouldn't really care that much.
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You may have missed the part about the revenue Google receives from its search engine. Regardless of Windows and Office, you don't think MSFT is interested in a piece of that huge revenue?

Think again.
 
You may have missed the part about the revenue Google receives from its search engine. Regardless of Windows and Office, you don't think MSFT is interested in a piece of that huge revenue?

Think again.
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That was fully accounted for in my statement.
 
general said:
That was fully accounted for in my statement.
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It wasn't apparent.

Nevertheless, to suggest that Microsoft's antics during the first wave of browser wars ~10 years ago as the basis of not trying a new search option in 2009 seems short-sighted.
 
they've done that kind of thing a bunch of times, its in their blood. You should always be suspicious of what MS is up to.

dugn said:
It wasn't apparent.

Nevertheless, to suggest that Microsoft's antics during the first wave of browser wars ~10 years ago as the basis of not trying a new search option in 2009 seems short-sighted.
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