Five Reasons Why Microsoft’s BING Outshines Google

Posted by on 06/14 at 12:44 PM Permalink
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On June 3, 2009 Microsoft officially unveiled its latest incarnation of the search engine: Bing! Yes, Bing, as in cherry, as in Crosby as in BING! I found it! Bing is not so much a search engine as it is a “decision engine”. Bing is what Google was 10 years ago, fresh, innovative, and (dare I say it) cool. But how does it stack up to the behemoth of the search engine world? Pretty well actually, and with this Tech Tip I’ll give you FIVE reasons why Bing outshines Google

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    Posted by Eddie Korbs  on  06/14  at  07:17 PM

  1. I was rather skeptical myself at first being a google lover...who isn’t after all...everyone googles these days. But as I binged over the past week or two I realized I was getting different results with bing and dare I say it, fresh and very desirable results. I at time search side by side and won’t you know it, I am gravitating towards bing.

    2. Posted by Jim  on  06/14  at  08:04 PM

  2. Never heard of bing before.  Thanks for ANOTHER great tip.
    Unlike many companies who only send out ads, you guys do a service with your “tips” newsleters.
    Thanks so much for what you do.

    3. Posted by aristata  on  06/14  at  08:24 PM

  3. I can’t believe MS stepped out of the mold and got this one right, and I have read other reviews of Bing (can’t we lose the all-caps format once and forever?) that agree with me.  Does anyone else side with this Tech-Tips reviewer?  Sorry, I haven’t had time to check it out.

    4. Posted by Greg Brecker  on  06/15  at  05:36 AM

  4. Microsoft seems to have a valid entry here. I applaud their effort. However It raises the question once again that they only seem to put forth the effort to get beyond their mediocre products Vista etc, when a competitor gives them a
    challenge they can’t get around by taking over someone else.

    We NEED someone to come up with a better operating system Apple, Linux, even Windows. Throw your top tallent back into that. M.S. continues to cherry pick, (Bing) instead of replanting the tree.

    5. Posted by Ed Carr  on  06/15  at  05:44 AM

  5. You use an open source license and yet still praise Microsoft???  They are the ones who would destroy you and open source if they could. Use better judgement in your reader advice.
    Please un-subscribe me from your newsletter.

    6. Posted by Paul Maclauchlan  on  06/15  at  07:37 AM

  6. Thanks for the great review, Bryan!

    I had already decided not to investigate Bing at this introductory stage, but you’ve changed my mind.

    I love the “related searches” idea and the expanded information bubble.  Also, the infinite scrolling of images and videos will speed up those searches by an order of magnitude.

    Well done Bryan and, it looks like, well done MS.

    --
    .../Paul

    7. Posted by Gary  on  06/15  at  09:29 AM

  7. I’m sorry to say that all these reports are so royally biased toward using Microsoft Bing and that no one does an honest comparison side by side. Forbes.com did a comparison and didn’t even mention using another browser in their “use it, or lose it” review. And here again TECH-TIPS failed to mention that though the queries produce slightly different results, they were not necessarily better. They also failed to mention that not all pages can be previewed. The preview must be written into the page itself and you can get that through any browser. Moving video, same applies, it must be written in the page you are accessing and again available in any browser you use. This is touted as something new when it’s not. I don’t know how much MS is paying you to constantly praise BING but it’s disheartening to know that you can’t be relied upon to deliver a true unbiased report.

    8. Posted by R B  on  06/15  at  09:37 AM

  8. I googled once and yes I got 1,500,000 answers to my topic in .0001 seconds like everyone said but they didn’t tell that I would spend 20 minutes to find what MSN search, now BING, showed me in 2 clicks.  Google may be “KOOOOL” but BING is effective. Have you ever used Yahoo search? I did and got a can’t find answer put same info into BING got what I wanted on page 1. Try BING you’ll like it unless you like looking instead of finding.

    9. Posted by software development India  on  06/15  at  11:35 PM

  9. I just started using BING, it is really good. It has many additional features when compared to other search engines, also provides good results..

    10. Posted by Zero factor  on  06/16  at  10:42 PM

  10. I feel that this post is biased towards Bing.Most of the searches I made with Bing provided irrelavant results.The only good bing does is it also provides a wikipedia result in its first page like google and also an youtube video if available…

    But Bing might become very useful in the days to come because of its technology.

    11. Posted by Daily Trader  on  06/17  at  12:34 AM

  11. I just like the image and video part of bing, other than that, it is pretty much the same as Live.

    12. Posted by Bryan Lambert  on  06/17  at  08:35 AM

  12. Thank you all for your comments on the article… For some specifics:

    1) I was actually in the same boat, I was VERY skeptical of Bing at first (as I was never a fan of their older search engine products), but was very surprised after using it.

    2) Thanks! smile

    3) The New York Post actually just ran an article that stated in (very dramatic fashion) that Google was pretty worried about Bing. Also, one of the reasons that Microsoft HAS (there’s that all caps again) hit a home run with Bing is that they had some “new (old) blood” heading the project (Brian MacDonald - for an interesting article about how Bing came about, see Ina Fried’s article over at CNet: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10250614-56.html?tag=mncol;txt)
    New York Post Article: http://www.nypost.com/seven/06142009/business/fear_grips_google_174235.htm

    4) After having used Vista (at home) and XP (at work) I can definitely say that Vista is hands down a better OS then XP.  Also, after having run the beta of Windows 7, I can confidently say that Microsoft may be on the verge of another home run in the OS market.  The biggest issue with Vista is people trying to run it on slow machines, it does best with lots of memory, a decent processor and a discrete GPU (Apple is very smart to control its hardware this way, that way, their OS doesn’t end up on poor speced machines that’ll have problems running it)

    5) I’m sorry that you feel this way.  I actually use open source and “standard” purchased software.  Microsoft is pretty predatory when it comes to trying to knock-off open source (remember that whole Kerberos episode from awhile back), but the fact remains that despite all this, they really did do an excellent job with their new search engine.

    6) Thank you!  smile

    7) This article was actually based on a side by side comparison with Google.  I did not feel it necessary to belabor the point as most persons are familiar with Google and there were already other excellent side by side articles available with Google and Bing going head to head.  I also intentionally did not talk about certain features that were already mirrored in Google (other than related searches which Google barfs up at the bottom of the page - most inconvenient).
    Straight head to head of Bing and Google:
    http://searchengineland.com/microsofts-bing-vs-google-head-to-head-search-results-20006

    8) You are finding exactly what everyone else finds when they Google - a ton of hits globbed onto the page and then a task of manually sifting through them. I am actually surprised that Google got beat to the punch by Microsoft on making searches more intelligent. But the fact remains that they did.

    9) smile

    13. Posted by Gary  on  06/17  at  11:21 AM

  13. From a programmers point of view, Bing programmed the following into their search engine= If ‘search’ equal word in ‘wikipedia’ then put on page one, second, if ‘search’ = utube, also put on page one. Other things programmed would be [if ‘search’ = another search engine, do not include..

    Better I think not. Again, no one praising BING mentioned a side by side comparison using other search engines.

    A side by side comparison of ‘Madonna’ produced the following:

    Yahoo: 272,000,000 hits
    Madonna Home page #1
    wikipedia #3, #4
    My Space #5
    Utube #7
    Google: 229,000,000 hits
    Madonna Home page #1
    wikipedia #2
    My Space #3
    Video results #4
    Bing: 33,500,000 hits
    Madonna Home page #2
    wikipedia #3
    My space #5
    Utube - not listed
    Video results (at the bottom of the page)

    Another search on ‘Hip Hop’

    Yahoo: 616,000,000 hits
    wikipedia #3
    Hiphop.com #6
    Google: 229,000,000 hits
    wikipedia #1
    Hiphop.com #3
    Bing: 133,000,000 hits
    wikipedia #3, #4
    Hiphop.com #2

    Search on ‘erotic’

    Yahoo: 162,000,000 hits
    Erotic home page #1
    wikipedia #6
    Google: 71,100,000 hits
    Erotic home page #6
    wikipedia - not listed
    Bing: 693,000,000 hits
    Erotic home page # not listed
    wikipedia #1

    Another search on ‘Yahoo’

    Yahoo: 7,580,000,000 hits
    Yahoo main page
    Yahoo mail
    yahoo search
    My Yahoo
    Yahoo messenger
    Yahoo games
    Yahoo music
    Yahoo answers
    Yahoo maps
    Yahoo groups
    Google: 2,460,000,000 hits
    Yahoo main page
    Yahoo mail page
    Yahoo search page
    News results for Yahoo
    Top news headlines on current events
    Yahoo weather
    Yahoo games
    Yahoo groups
    Bing: 275,000,000 hits
    One entry only-yahoo main page

    Another search on ‘google’

    Yahoo: 4,840,000,000 hits
    Google home page
    iGoogle
    Google image search
    Google maps
    Google video
    Gmail
    Google earth
    Google: 2,470,000,000 hits
    Google Main page
    Google maps
    News results for google
    Google videos
    Google.org
    Google groups
    Google news
    Google labs
    Official Google blog
    Google earth
    Bing: 182,000,000 hits
    One entry - home page

    Another search on ‘Bing’

    Yahoo: 262,000,000 hits
    Everything on Bing from Bing Crosby to MS Bing
    Google: 44,500,000 hits
    99% MS results (bias?)
    Bing: 6,260,000 hits
    Only MS listed sites (bias?)

    In all searches, Bing’s hit rate is under 250mil. unless it was porn. Yahoo and Google both had hits in the billions. When searching for the major players such as Yahoo and Google, Bing produced only 1 result. Google and Yahoo by contrast had lists of data including stock information, news and so forth regarding the company. When searching for ‘BING’ itself, Microsoft results were 100% BING advertisements with any other search pushed to the sidebar. Yahoo actually showed to be the true unbiased search engine listing everything BING including Microsoft’s new search engine but wasn’t totally focused on Microsoft.

    What I did discover is that when searching via Google or Yahoo, you tend to come upon other search engines masking as search results. In Bing, they seem to be eliminated or not available. Still, I don’t think that constitutes as ‘novel’ or ‘innovative’. If Google or Yahoo set arguments in their search engines to exclude them, Microsoft would have nothing to boast about.

    This is a fair comparison. Pitting the big boys against each other in an unbiased manner. You be the judge. For the MS zealots, you can’t argue with ‘truth’.

    14. Posted by network gamer  on  06/21  at  03:28 AM

  14. Point number 8 is very important! Good Summary at all!

    15. Posted by Thomas D  on  07/01  at  03:58 AM

  15. I have to agree Gary, #13. 1 result on Bing for ‘google’ and ‘yahoo’?

    Yes it’s delivered differently but why display only one result?

    We will see how it evolves but for now I wouldn’t say it’s ‘better’.

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