Comments on: Google: We've got cool search, too

Google adds a link to its home page describing how to search for interesting results on Google. It's long offered such capabilities, but Bing's bump could have prompted a reminder.

[Philstera]

Googles home page is still ugly and stale compared to Bing...

[karpenterskids]

On the contrary...Google is about as simple as it gets.
And that's what's so attractive about it.


Their home page consists of mostly just their famous logo, and a search box.
And to make a search...that's all I need. :)

[saintseminole]

I guess "ugly" and "stale" are matters of opinion... Hard to argue with an opinion.

People should use the search engine that works best for them, not what hype tells them to do. Try them out and pick one (or all, if you want).

Every time I hear of a new, innovative search engine, I test it out with a few key words, searching for things I know are out there. I test the regular web search, the image search, etc. To this day, Google still returns the best results (for me personally), with Yahoo! in a close second.

But again, that's what works for ME. Your results might be different.

[bdennis410]

Interesting. I do the same, but my Search categories to test are Who, What, Where, When, Why, How --wrapped around the target of the search.
Try it on Bing vs Google vs Yahoo. Don't try in on Wolfram.

[lonestarState]

I personally like to modify my search to my liking as I do with the BuildaSearch service. Bing does have some pretty cool pictures, but it all comes down to a matter of taste. At the end if you still like using Lycos search, good luck finding that black dog.

[damiandennison]

I use them all, but I mostly use google just because of how the results are presented.

[Super2online]

Unfortunately for Google, the experience isn't even close to the polished integration that Bing provides. On a personal note, it's also hilarious to see them now trying to say, "hey, me too" in a desperate move to try and hold their numbers where they are.

[wokkawokka93]

With the share of the search market Google holds, there is no desperation.

The problem with search engines other than Google is that they try to distract you before you start a search. You may find this fluff as a polished experience but the market has spoken: people just want a search box on a plain page.

The initial advertising blitz for Bing is not such a big deal. The way Bing may gain search market share is if it is set as the default search portal on upcoming releases of the world's most used OS. That is what Google might worry about - but even this can be cleaned up in court.

[fhemsher]

First let me admit, I have not yet tried Bing. I can't see how this search engine can exceed Google in content and depth of data. I base this on viewing my website's stats on search engine's visits to index my pages. Since the beginning of this month:
Googlebot 542 hits @ 10 MB
MSNbot 1 hit @ 86 KB

Where is Bing getting data...??

[Maccess]

"Microsoft has received much well-deserved praise for improving how its search product displays information to the searcher. But it's almost as if Google is saying, "Hey, we do all that already.""

Hasn't that usually been the case? When MS has a "new" product, someone's already been doing it, but wasn't as effective at either making it known or working around lock-in.

[JJ609]

I've tried bing.com. Eh. Google's fine with me.

[mt71449]

IMHO I really like Bing search and now use it as default search for my browser. But I still prefer Google... the integration of Google search with Google maps is superb, adds a level of competence to Google searches that Bing will not match anytime soon.

For me its Google maps > Bing.com > Google.com