Bing.com: If its not broke, fix it!
Did i miss something? Did i sleep in and wake up in a time where google wasnt enough? I think that microsoft’s bing.com “decision engine”, ITS NOT A SEARCH ENGINE! (i bet MS people get repremanded for calling it that). Microsoft is not competing to compete. The classic “the contest is hopeless, lets change the terms and act snooty” strategy that so many immature children play on a day to day basis has been adopted by one of the most influencial companies of the modern era. All the venting aside…I need to take a look at this thing.
Well ill be a son of a bitch. It works! It knew before i even got to the site that i was curious about charles de gualle’s thoughts on cheese and government. Now, if i remember correctly, their commercials feature people going crazy with “information overload”. Nah, its completely different. Its bing!
Side note; call me what you will, i like looking at other people’s photography about as much as i like smelling other people’s gross cooking. There is a reason that i frequent flickr about as much as i like using dirty public restrooms. Not just because everyone who got a digital camera for christmas is suddenly a “photographer”, but because i might just not be in the mood to look at two grown men scurrying cheese about some foreign country getting dysyntary all over everything. (the guy has on a watch. AKA jewelery. AKA inappropropriate food handling attire). Also, why should he have been a cook? Is bing poking fun at Mr De Gualle’s position on dairy products and the government thereof? Rude.
Lets put bing.com to the test against google. Now i dont give enough of a shit to do some big important write up on how bing sucks, you can visit it yourself and find this out, lets just take a single search and compare.
Search Term: Pickled Eggs
Google Review:
Fair enough. I see lots of pickled eggs, jars of pickled eggs, and a man eating a pickled egg. I would go as far as to say that my search has been satisfied and that i have found my pickled eggs.
Bing Review:
What the fuck? DVD’s? Aparently, bing has made a judgement call on my behalf and instead of finding me a picture of pickled eggs, it has found something more desireable. Also a mug.
In conclusion, i want to say that the only way bing.com would even be able to be competitive with google would be to offer the SAME results, with a better enviroment/response/experience. Since none of those things matter due to the fact that its fucking retarded, it will ammount to nothing and soon join vista, windows ME, and the paper clip in the halls of who gives a shit.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:52 am
my initial test result shows that Bing is as good as Google when displaying relevant search results. Google might be having a tough competitor with Microsofts own search engine.
August 22nd, 2009 at 10:11 am
Microsoft Bing would be the closet competitor of Google. but i still use Google because it shows more relevant results on the serp.
February 19th, 2010 at 2:28 am
Bing is crap! I'm not a big one for marketing and names and all that stuff so I couldn't really care about the name “Bing” In fact, it sounds ok to me… But I don't have a gripe with the glitzy naming or promotion, what I care about is what's under the bonnet… And quite frankly, it is garbage!
Every website I create get's instantly indexed in both Google and Yahoo, yet never gets indexed in Bing until I shout and scream in their community forums and Brett Yount manually adds it!
How do they expect to be successful with this type of activity… And all the forum experts say “focus on building quality backlinks” – bullshit! I'm not asking to be number one…I'm asking to be indexed… a process that Yahoo and Google have no problem doing…I will focus on backlinks in my efforts to be at the top of the SERPs but that is secondary to just being listed!
Think about it, a small business owner who is focussing energy on a website (growing numbers of businesses focussing efforts online)…
I have a website and Bing doesn't index it…
1. I'm never going to use Bing because it won't list my site
2. I'm never going to tell anyone else to use Bing because they wont find me there
They're shooting themselves in the foot by making getting listed so difficult!
There is clearly a major issue with their index and it either can't keep up or is very buggy… What's even worse is I have seen in my logs that the MSN Bot has visited my site 5-6 times… And I still can't get listed… So in other words, it knows I exist, it has crawled my site, yet it still won't list me…
Boo Bing!