Yes that’s right Bing, what an awesome name… or maybe not.
They named it Bing because they want people
to make it in to a verb like “to google”, but I don’t see that
happen any time soon - I certainly don’t want anybody “to bing” me.
But how does it compare to the competition? Well I tried to bing my self 1 today and these are the top 3 urls it returned:
Our family website, my Perl
modules on CPAN and what?
A gzipped XML sitemap, what am I going to do with that? I’m not a search
engine! - Not exactly what I had hoped for, especially that third
link makes absolutely no sense at all.
By comparison this is what Google gave me for the same search:
- http://david.olrik.dk/
- http://david.olrik.dk/2009/03/28/a-new-perspective-on-gtd/
- http://twitter.com/davidolrik
Three links that are very relevant to the search for me.
I know Bing is still in beta, but so is Google 3 or at least they claim to be. As usual Microsoft is arriving too late in the game, but they do get some points for trying 4.
I went through the first 10 pages of results on Bing without finding a link to this site, and at least half of the results were not related to me in any way and that’s not an acceptable result for a search engine. So am I going to be using Bing any time soon ?
… Fugedabodit 5!
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No! - That really doesn’t sound right - People might actually be offended by it… ↩︎
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Note: I did not make this a clickable link, because unless you are a search engine it won’t make much sense to you ↩︎
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btw. Thank you Google for ruining peoples perception of what beta software means ↩︎
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Microsoft today, is way better than Microsoft 10 years ago ↩︎
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You need to use a bad Italian accent for this word to give meaning ↩︎
