18 Jun 2009

Have you tried Bing? What do you think?

Microsoft unveiled its new search engine Bing, last week, aiming to take market-share from search providers Google and Yahoo and subsequently generate more online advertising dollars.

As this may well be the first usable search engine by Microsoft, I thought I should add it as my home page (alongside Google) and see what all the fuss has been about.

To run the test, I found this great tool from the folks @ Blackdog.ie, which allows users to dual search and display the results of Google & Bing (how cool is that?). My search criteria was very simply the name of this blog "whoisaaron". Here's the results...

















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Bing certainly returned results every bit as good as Google, albeit different and in my opinion this is an absolute first - I'm impressed. I suppose these and other inconsistencies will keep Search Engine Optimization experts on their toes as Microsoft tries to mount a serious challenge to Google's search supremacy.

Have you tried Bing?