deep thoughts @ 15 Jun 2009 12:20 am by bigfish
Microsoft’s Bing is interesting and I’d wager that it will give Google a run for the money over the longterm.
I’m not saying that Bing is distinctly better than Google’s search or that I like the design better. In fact, I prefer Google’s approach to search, but maybe that’s because I’ve been using Google for so many years. (Before Google, Altavista was my favorite.)
I’ve found a couple of interesting sites that compare the search engines from Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo. One that’s particularly interesting is BlindSearch which has you do a blind comparison.
I searched BlindSearch three times and chose the Google results each time. But again, this may be more a matter of habit than anything. I’m used to reading Google’s search results and parsing them for what I want. Perhaps more telling, the differences between the three sets of results was not clear to me, which is saying something in and of itself: most users won’t be able to tell much of a difference. Based on this very limited study, the winner in search may be the one to launch a stronger marketing campaign — and we know that Microsoft will come out swinging.
I found another site as well that does a direct comparison between search results from Google and Bing. Enter your search terms into The “Google /Bing Comparison Tool” and you’ll be presented with side-by-side results.
Try searching Bing for “google” then Google for “bing.” Bing returns only one result with a link to show more. Google is more impartial. Eh, what did you expect?
Do you really want someone to “bing” you?
Personally, I’d rather be “googled”.
–schrenk,
Ping, bing, what’s the difference really?
Search is not sticky. In my opinion, people will use whatever search engine gets the job done quickly and well.