New search engine from Microsoft – Bing

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Microsoft recently made available a new search engine called Bing.  It’s been getting mixed reports in the media.  Two of the sources I rely on for expert and impartial reviews of search engines were not very positive at all.  Phil Bradley reported: It’s awful, and Karen Blakeman said: Don’t bother.  Elsewhere, some reviews have been more positive.

About.com has a helpful screenshot walk-through, which is a useful way of getting an overview.

Roddy MacLeod
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10 Responses to “New search engine from Microsoft – Bing”

  1. Phil Bradley Says:
    2 June 2009 at 12:27 pm | Reply

    I’ve also discovered that Bing is removing (aka censoring?) results in the UK version of the engine as well. Details at http://tinyurl.com/ne2p57 which is my blog post about it. All very odd and I don’t pretend to understand it.

  2. Roddy MacLeod Says:
    29 June 2009 at 2:47 pm | Reply

    There’s more about Bing from Information Today, at http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Microsofts-New-BingThe-Decision-Engine-54514.asp

  3. Roddy MacLeod Says:
    13 July 2009 at 2:05 pm | Reply

    See also Karen Blakeman’s blog for a report on the recent Bing UK Round Table Meeting http://www.rba.co.uk/wordpress/2009/07/10/bing-uk-round-table-meeting/ and Phil Bradley’s report on the same meeting http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2009/06/the-microsoft-bing-meeting.html

  4. PPC Management Services Says:
    6 August 2009 at 8:47 pm | Reply

    Yeah, I must admit, I am very skeptical of what bing may be doing, and I honestly believe it still won’t come close to competing with Google..

  5. Voice Broadcasting Says:
    6 August 2009 at 8:51 pm | Reply

    I think Bing has a chance of being successful as long as they emulate Google as much as possible. Why reinvent the wheel?

  6. Phil Bradley Says:
    6 August 2009 at 10:06 pm | Reply

    If Bing emulate Google, why would people want to leave Google? The only way that Bing can compete is to innovate and provide a different experience.

  7. Roddy MacLeod Says:
    17 August 2009 at 2:06 pm | Reply

    Bing now refers a lot more users than Google does to one of the sites I administer, but th eopposite is the case with another site.

  8. James Bower Says:
    6 September 2009 at 11:13 pm | Reply

    Great blog, reading it through RSS feed as well

  9. James Bower Says:
    6 September 2009 at 11:38 pm | Reply

    Sorry for the double post, just wanted to let you know that i think something is wrong with the RSS feed of your blog and you might want to check it out, thanks

  10. Roddy MacLeod Says:
    7 September 2009 at 8:52 am | Reply

    The RSS feed works OK for me, in Reader, Bloglines, etc.

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