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Bing Keeps Rising

16 points by newacc 17y ago

tokenadult 17y ago
"For Microsoft, which is poised to take over search at Yahoo, a loss of share at Yahoo is hardly good news. ComScore is now reporting combined results for Yahoo and Bing: they inched up very modestly to 28.2 percent, up from 28 percent in June." The article doesn't report serious encroachment on Google yet. I'm still trying out Bing any time Google doesn't please me (as most recently when I was mapping a driving trip to a place I had never been before), but so far Bing isn't pleasing me any better.
- trafficlight 17y ago
  I try Bing out every once in a while as well. I find that it gives me much better image results that Google does. Plus, I like the search filters (size, shape, etc) so accessible.
- drhowarddrfine 17y ago
  It's not fair to combine the two since there will be some cross searching and Yahoo users who will not use Bing but like Google, and all that. When the actual merger takes place, I'd bet the combined total actually goes down by a few points.
  - drhowarddrfine 17y ago
    What I really wanted to say was this "news" of a 3/10 point increase is not relevent, much like Bing results.
    - dtby 17y ago
      The increase is not relevant to what? Also, for what it's worth, I now use Bing as my primary search engine and find it produces highly relevant results. I attribute this to performing tightly targeted search queries. I feel that Google is still better for serendipitous (exploring type) searches.
      - plinkplonk 17y ago
        "The increase is not relevant to what?" I think he is saying it is statistically irrelevant. Such a small increase in such a small time period could be random "noise".
        leej 17y ago
        You know in this world 1% means 1 billion
- baguasquirrel 17y ago
  I can't tell any difference in regular search results, but Bing Maps shows things like the Bay Area's www.openspace.org parks, whereas Google Maps does not. It was also harder to find (relatively) small parks like Acadia National Park on Google Maps compared to Bing Maps. I've preferred Bing Maps since I noticed this.

16 points by newacc 17y ago

"For Microsoft, which is poised to take over search at Yahoo, a loss of share at Yahoo is hardly good news. ComScore is now reporting combined results for Yahoo and Bing: they inched up very modestly to 28.2 percent, up from 28 percent in June." The article doesn't report serious encroachment on Google yet. I'm still trying out Bing any time Google doesn't please me (as most recently when I was mapping a driving trip to a place I had never been before), but so far Bing isn't pleasing me any better.

trafficlight 17y ago
I try Bing out every once in a while as well. I find that it gives me much better image results that Google does. Plus, I like the search filters (size, shape, etc) so accessible.
drhowarddrfine 17y ago
It's not fair to combine the two since there will be some cross searching and Yahoo users who will not use Bing but like Google, and all that. When the actual merger takes place, I'd bet the combined total actually goes down by a few points.
- drhowarddrfine 17y ago
  What I really wanted to say was this "news" of a 3/10 point increase is not relevent, much like Bing results.
  - dtby 17y ago
    The increase is not relevant to what? Also, for what it's worth, I now use Bing as my primary search engine and find it produces highly relevant results. I attribute this to performing tightly targeted search queries. I feel that Google is still better for serendipitous (exploring type) searches.
    - plinkplonk 17y ago
      "The increase is not relevant to what?" I think he is saying it is statistically irrelevant. Such a small increase in such a small time period could be random "noise".
      - leej 17y ago
        You know in this world 1% means 1 billion
baguasquirrel 17y ago
I can't tell any difference in regular search results, but Bing Maps shows things like the Bay Area's www.openspace.org parks, whereas Google Maps does not. It was also harder to find (relatively) small parks like Acadia National Park on Google Maps compared to Bing Maps. I've preferred Bing Maps since I noticed this.