Comments on: Google's Schmidt dings Bing

Despite calling an executive committee meeting to discuss Microsoft's new search engine, Google CEO shows no signs he's worried about Bing as a competitive threat.

[MarcoP123]

Schmidt shouldn't comment at all--it just gives Bing more publicity. That, in turn, will most immediately hurt Yahoo. See <a href="http://domusinc.blogspot.com/2009/06/why-would-google-ding-bing.html">Why would Google ding Bing?</a> for more.

[huanglei66]

I don't know anything on news.

[darkman6909]

http://dhudson.ws/tissa.htm

I think bing is ok i like the pix and 3 little fun facts and the porn is great too.

[edejennings]

Google's CFO's last name is Pichette.

[Tom Krazit]

Thanks, fixed.

Well, you know Eric is a CEO, so he really can't say much. But innovation? Come on. The stuff Google puts out was bouncing around Sun some 20+ years ago, and Eric knows it. Microsoft monopoly buster is more like it - something Sun always wanted to be, but never achieved. Nothing like having an entirely new revenue source at your disposal to shake things up...

Another thing .. I'd stay away from the "innovation" word. Besides the air of transient superiority, you start sounding more and more like Microsoft...

[computernewbie]

My business website comes in on the top page of Google for many search criteria. This was easy to achieve because I work in a particular field of alternat therapies and there is not much competition. The competition that there is, in general, knows nothing about building a website.

When I search for my site on Bing, however, I can not find it. I type in the entire name and it does not come up. I do an all words search on the entire name (six words) and I get results with one or two words but not my website. I search for the name and address of my practice and Bing does not find it. I search for a sentence from my website and Bing does not find it.

Admittedly, I am from Europe so Bing is still in beta here, but I would think that should not affect basic search results, only the additional features of Bing.

[computernewbie]

gerrrg wrote " That's a joke. I tried using Bing to find flights this weekend to Honolulu, and it turns out that the link through Google to Expedia was lower than Bing's results by $100. Also, you can't specify exact searches for products like, "Nikon d5000 body only" on Bing, while I can get results in Google, of prices from different stores."

That has always been the problem with Microsoft. As soon as they try to guess what the user wants they start annoying the hell out of the user. The "Office Assistant" is a perfect example.

Users are not stupid - let them decide what they want to search!

[fersalasr]

For me Bing has been much, much better this last week. The results displayed when I search for Pornstars are really, really good. I have found some photos from Asia Carrera (who has been my favourite Pornstar for 10 years) that I could not find using Google.

[shmariam]

Well Mr. Schmidt Google has finally a real and credible alternative. I thought I will be back to Google but so far that hasn't happened yet. Bing is doing really well and getting me what I want. It's about a choice and am glad I have one.

[chrissd]

@ToreBQ
"There were three key pieces that made the Google search the winnerabout 10 years ago:

1: You couldn't buy a high "search result ranking", so results were "real".
2: It didn't force you to work a certain way (yahoo did).
3: It didn't mix in a bunch of stuff. It did what it did, no more, no less. "

1: Google are currently being sued over that. The top rankings are from paid subscribers. (Businesses who fork out $$$)

2: That's still valid.

3: Google isn't just a search engine anymore. It's a major corporation specialising in advertising. So it's fked that one up to.

So there's only simple left on the board. But because it started out ok, people are staying with it. So no other search engine can compete. Till they sue for monopolistic anyways. Actually.. They tried that one too. Didn't work because Googles about advertising, not search. In the words of Google. :P

[meshugnaneh]

Google kind of reminds me of Apple in that they are the first to have a great product and they use that to get people locked in to it. Once they have their people locked in, Google and Apple blind them from every other competing product out there. Bing is a great search. I have personally changed it to my default. I like the interface more, the cash back program is amazing and, for me at least, the results are just as good as Google's.

[loginprompt]

It is so nice to have something else to use. To have an option. I choose Bing. For many reasons, mainly the reason I first used Google, Bing returns honest results that are relevant. Google's results seem engineered to give me what Googles wants me to see, not what I wanted to see.

As for innovation at Google, wow they came out with documents, spreadsheets, messaging, etc. and it all so lacking innovation. They got lucky with search and have yet to replicate that success. Now when a real challenge comes, rather than admit it, they pretend it is nothing. That is fine, ignore the Elephant in the room, that will make Bing go away.

The idea of having a network computer can be nice, but I am not going to trust all my data to Google. I prefer to have MS Office and keep complete control of my data, encrypted safe on my own computer. I will get win7 and keep Office and now with Bing I am set.