Comments on: How Many Geeks Are Even Trying Bing?

By: ryan l

ryan l — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:13:25 +0000

I think that bing has a lot of great features but it has a few that strike me as a bit overreaching.

Take for example the playback of videos in the serps. Bing somehow managed to stip all the interstitials (site urls) out of a promotional video we produced.

Also while I like the right side navigation filters I think this also is an attempt to keep surfers in the serps for longer where they can be fed more advertising…essentially I see it as lead recapture for MSN adcenter.

my thoughts on right side navigation/filtering: “oh whats that we didn’t get it right…maybe you were looking for this?..how about this? is this what you were looking for…no…try this then?” all the while showing you new ads with each filter.

By: Nick Rado

Nick Rado — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:14:12 +0000

Actually, Google is starting to lose its luster, fast, due to its opaque way of doing business. If you scratch just a little under the surface you’ll see a lot of people who are disappointed with the way Google is using its dominance and unassailable position to trample on people.

Remember, Microsoft was cool in the early days, as cool as Google was when Google was new. Microsoft was this snazzy little startup competing against the established behemoth (IBM).

Well, Microsoft ain’t cool no more, and Google is only cool for those few who aren’t familiar with the ugly mess that is AdWords/AdSense, and who continue to be fooled by the “Do No Evil” slogan. I can’t believe I myself bought that line.

As for Bing, it’s pretty good – extremely fast. I’m rooting for Bing only because the enemy of my enemy is my friend. I not only switched my default search engine to Bing, I’m aggressively promoting Bing on all my sites. But I have to say, I never thought I’d see the day I’d be rooting for Microsoft.

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By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:48:21 +0000

@Bob — I think you’re right about Google. You’re probably also right about Bing. I think I’m still right about how hard it will be for Bing (or anyone) to penetrate Google’s seemingly unassailable thought leadership on what Search means. ;)

By: Tony Hung

Tony Hung — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:47:07 +0000

@pixgeeks — the only one I really missed was Firebug. I still open up FF for that. Other than that, my casual browsing / searching / researching purposes are satisfied (and more) with Chrome

By: pixgeeks

pixgeeks — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:21:40 +0000

And you didn’t miss the Firefox plugins ??? I tried to switch … and came back to FF after a week !

By: Bob Caswell

Bob Caswell — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:20:33 +0000

I think what Microsoft has released are smaller, incremental improvements that experienced searchers are already comfortable with. But Microsoft is the one trying to bring this kind of new perspective on search into the light (for the mainstream).

Remember that as Google improves stuff, it rarely tells anyone beyond a blog post. I could be wrong, but I’m guessing the majority of Google searchers probably use Google the same way that they did 5 years ago. That is, even if much has changed in the past 5 years, Google user search habits probably haven’t. (I’m talking about those Google users who aren’t techies/bloggers.)