Microsoft gets good hits for Bing
INTERNET SEARCH wanna-be Microsoft seems to be getting good hits on its new search engine Bing.
In its first week of operating Bing the Vole had a market share of search in double digits for the first time in two years.
According to Comscore, Microsoft had 11.1 per cent of US searches during the partial week of June 2 to 6. The week before it had 9. 1 per cent.
The last time that the Vole did this well in searches was when it was bribing people to use Live Search.
However this one statistic is no real indicator of success. Most of the search increase could be accounted for by people trying out Bing.
If they don't like what they see then chances are they will go back to what ever search engine they were using before.
The figures still put Microsoft in third place behind Yahoo and Google. Google has close to 70 per cent search dominance in the US, while Yahoo has about 20 per cent of the US search market. µ
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tried it out my self, thought it was good, but went back to google, because its just a matter of time b4 ur bombarded with adverts
Shockingly, I actually think its pretty good. I even added it to Firefox. I've been trying to use it exclusively for a little while now and seems to be doing what it should...
I've used Google since it was first released before that it was Altavista and by comparison google was a god send, so simple and so quick!
The problem is in the last few years google has become flooded with price comparison sites and other "hijackers" that contaminate your results page.
I recently decided to purchase a new lens for my digital camera and wanted to find review sites or peoples posts on forums regarding the lens and upon searching for the lens all I got on the first page was price comparison sites, no where that actually sold the lens or reviewed it just crap basically, feeding my search term into there own search engines.
Because Bing is new, I've found that this doesn't happen to the extent it happens on Google, and the results are pretty good and it looks pretty much the same so for now Bing has become the default search provider in my browser replacing google. iGoogle is still my home page though.
I love competition :)
to william,
I also Bing for Google because of advertising? I mean, google has virtually no advertising at all..
except down the side of every page,
except at the top of each page,
and when I enter a product for a review, and... wait a minute!
I'd been going to www.binge.com!
...And I'm like when the vole has grown a social conscience? I'd never seen the vole in first-pass-the-blue-post. But one can not rule out a deathbed conversion if the vole are reduced to performing the role of a bingo caller. In the midst of all the rancour and recrimination...
o wait. I must be thinking on
the Quango Tango!
It time to get reloaded and we're NOT going to be Sonny-and-Chering it!
Sharon,... where the keys to...
Bling stength is in its function & grace. Bling Has Style. however, ANY Search Engine, left on in back page is sitting there invisibly, Searching, Searching for Week or Day. For anything to getta Your Bling.old.
Bling IS Proof that Just About Everything IS Illegal, somewhere. So Pages ARE Thin, rstricted From Horrors OF Reality. Yet, YOUR Files May Indicate YOU Have Traveled OUTSIDE Bling & Punishment IS Often Unconsciousable, Severe & Mechanical.
Machine Eats Man, Man Enjoys: MK Ultee'.
Google was good for a good while, yes. But after handing over private user data to governments, becoming bloated with ads (yes, text can also bloat) and evidencing the stupid wikipedia in pretty much any search... I can easily consider an alternative, even if the results were oh-not-that-good. Evil by evil...
Stupid wikipedia? Are u kidding us?
Best results comes first. =D
There's a Firefox addon for showing the same search on both search engines, so you can get the best of both worlds. Really handy.
nope. there are some language related bugs, and try getting special information: in google usually the first 3 hits are "good enough" links.
it's not bing bing, it's click click for ms
How do I pay them to get my search engine up there?
How do they know? Do they have bits of script in peoples code that are barred by any sensible user so they only get results from spam fodder? Surely the easily led must be running out of money soon?