Comments on: Bing off to solid start, but not that good

A Web market share company claiming Microsoft's Bing search engine passed Yahoo Search this week appears to be an outlier compared with other observers and CNET's own data.

[UrgentMatter]

Come back and tell me it's market share figure in 3 months. The first week will probably be higher than that as people visit it just to try it out with all the coverage it's release is going to be getting. The really hard part for MS is to turn those that visit to check it out into people who make their default search engine. As someone said above I don't see what it does that is any better than google and in some places it is worse. Why am I supposed to change?

Add on to the fact that whilst the name Bing has grown on me when I first heard it I thought it was stupid and I'm sure many others will. It also kinda goes against MS's goal of uniting things under the windows live brand.

[rakker91]

I've switched all of my default search tools to bing, even in firefox. I'm getting the results that I want, the site looks great, and I like the UI much better than Google. Bing maps is better than google maps for local search, bing's video and picture view are far better than google's, especially since I can categorize sizes and such. Bing's search is comparable, occasionally, I do have to look further down than I would with google, but its good enough

I've switched, and before you flame, remember this was objective, so your response should be too.

[timster799]

Well, you were making great points until you whipped out your trademark "fanboy" assault. Then you salivated and pretty much disappeared into your regular Apple bashing rant.

[gerrrg]

Bing will become the core search engine for porn with a 75% market share. Just my guess.

[Jaza1010]

I LOVE Bing better google.

I was searching for a city in Victoria Australia on google Map, with google map not even knowing about the city, then I binged it and found it on bing map. Awesome.

MS: Please give me a NEW REFINED BING TOOLBAR and I promise to unistall google toolbar from my 5 computers.

Anyone know where I can get a bing toolbar from?

[SnowCrash8]

This reviewer must not know what they are doing I think.

Used Bing 5 days as primary search and very good.

[lefrere_dotmac]

Bing's Video Preview is a powerful feature, currently attracting attention for negative reasons (unwanted adult video content, worrying to any school or to parents). It has positive uses. And also hidden dangers.

Scenario: end-users become liable for damages, as a result of using preview to avoid paying to view key steps in a commercial video.

Example: training videos offered for chargeable-download by training companies and by the new generation of mobile phone handset makers. The people creating the videos are starting to worry whether preview will destroy the market for their products by providing a free way to view what they do. They put a lot of effort into being concise: producing short videos that capture key steps in procedures. In such videos those steps could be honed down to be as short as 10-20 seconds - the core of a skilled performance. Think of Tiger Woods.

[rjwinslow]

If you're looking to buy something, bing seems to me to be just what you're looking for. If you're after information - not so much. I doubt that google is anywhere near panic at this point. Micro$oft is, as usual, expert at $$ extraction, at service still pizz-poor.

[rdupuy11]

Well I gave Wolfram alpha a try, and bing too.

I'll admit, that when I need Microsoft to give me 8% cash back on something, I'll consider bing for that.

But Google is just so good with results, and I don't care for prepackaged results, I'm generally going after things that don't lend themselves to manual prepackaging.

All the tech they keep blabbing about sounds great in the lab, but in real life, I find it useless for my purposes.

Heck, I wouldn't mind if there was a competitor to google, I have about zero loyalty, but I'm not wasting my time with Bing, when I'm so productive with Google, and Google is such a tried and proven thing for me.

[rdupuy11]

Come to think about it, if I examine everything I do:

translations: babelfish (yahoo) and prompt
maps, free mail: yahoo
search: google
cashback offers: bing
chat: mail.ru

I guess I'm all over the place, just using whatever is best, or in some cases, whatever I found useful I've had no need to replace...but google is still the search king for me.

[MarcoP123]

Why is there so much emotion (positive and negative) when a news story focuses on Microsoft? Let's stick with the facts and how they might or might not impact us. In what ways is Bing better or worse than Google or Yahoo? How will (or should) Bing's introduction affect marketers? Here are my newest <a href="http://domusinc.blogspot.com/2009/06/bing-yahoo-google-few-new-thoughts.html" target="_blank">thoughts on Bing, Yahoo!, and Google.</a>

[MarcoP123]

Why is there so much emotion (positive and negative) when a news story focuses on Microsoft? Let's stick with the facts and how they might or might not impact us. In what ways is Bing better or worse than Google or Yahoo? How will (or should) Bing's introduction affect marketers? Here are my newest thoughts: http://domusinc.blogspot.com/2009/06/bing-yahoo-google-few-new-thoughts.html.

[mnl1121]

Like CNET says at the end of the article, measuring internet traffic is very tricky. With that said, I believe that its easily possible for Bing to overtake Yahoo in only its first week. The thing is its no where close to Google and it never will. Bing is nothing special and really whats with the name anyway? The people that come up with the name should be fired. "Hey lets search it on Bing.... Yeah!." At least Google sounds good.

[patriot1947-2009]

"Bing" has all the cool of Bill Gate's doing a rap song.

[daas88]

what is worst? MS haters or MS lovers? they already have power in several markets, i think i'll just stick to google.

[zwu_ca]

It is puzzling for me to see these numbers. But I'll continue to use something like http://www.elookinto.com. I did think the results from Bing are better know -- but using http://www.elookinto.com, I can compare every search from Google, Yahoo and Bing.

[clj7on]

YouTube, Facebook and all that other stuff can go away for all I care, don't use it, don't need it, don't need all these freakin' pop-up links on my webpages. have to watch were I move the mouse so I can continue to read the text on the page. Getting very tired of the stupid things obscuring my page I'm trying to read. facebook, myspace, twitter and all this other stuff is nothing but a waste of time. couldn't care less what you are doing right this minute. Until the work applications I use transition to be able to use other browsers, I'm stuck with MS.