Will Microsoft’s Bing Compete With Google?
Microsoft’s Bing.com has a few features that make searching more convenient. Especially for someone that uses Search Engines as much as I do.
When you scroll over a video result in Bing, the video will start playing in the same preview size. It performs very well, and so far has not buffered to begin. Searching for your favorite athletes in Bing is very convenient. It offers a great search result with a picture, team information, current game dates, and the player’s statistics.
When you need to get a contact phone number for a company, sometimes it takes a while to get to the right page. Bing will give you the number right on the search results page. No need to even visit the website:
If you want a preview of a web page without having to visit the website, Bing’s “Look before you leap” feature works great. When your mouse is scrolled over the desired search result a preview box will appear. The text will give a short description of the web page, and shows what other links appear on the page.
Microsoft has already spent a large amount of money on Television adverting for Bing.com. This might help Microsoft become a real competitor for Yahoo and Google. When Microsoft attempted to purchase Yahoo from Jerry Yang, their $31/share offer was declined. If Bing can gain enough market shares, it may put more pressure for yahoo to accept a deal with Microsoft. It would be nice to see a “real” Google competitor.
Will Microsoft’s Bing be able to compete?
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Good post! Google still rocks. Goodluck to bing!
I think that BING is great! The algorithm makes sense compared to Google that has been killing me! Google seems to be trying to create an algorithm that so wacko it’s causing my website to constantly go up and down causing a huge loss of income for me! Instead of worrying about the SEO game trying to frustrate everyone trying to improve their websites I feel that an algorithm should go back to basics so a well written website with a direct URL match to the search term comes up high in the search results as it should be and BING does. Google used to be great before the huge complicated algorithms that are causing many solid well written websites to drop like rock causing loss of incomes for honest businesses and even a larger loss of income by driving people to So Called SEO Experts that often do more harm then good! There are so many scammers out there ya never know who to go to and often people spend their last dollar with them only to lose everything! Simple is better, it makes sense and will allow solid, long standing websites to continue to be seen!
as a blogger, i noticed there are coming more referal from bing engine and i tried the video search at bing, it’s simply excellent.