Study shows people won't switch to Bing

[drhowarddrfine]

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Following the test, 4 out of the 12, or one third, said that overall they preferred Bing. The other 8 said that they preferred Google because they were already familiar with it, used other Google products, or that Bing’s improvements are simply not enough to make them switch.

During the first few days of Bing, people were saying its search results were poor. This study shows that's still true:

What is amazing is that when the test subjects were asked to rate Bing on specific criteria (visual design, organization of features, filtering options, and relevance of results), Bing handily beat Google in everything but result relevance.

[Bohra]

We have to see how this study comes up in the long run

[athul]

Bing is slow than google. STill Google wins

[rossb]

I think it's just too little too late for Microsoft... I'm waiting for the next big thing in search.. I can say now.. I don't think its going to be Microsoft ...

[neslo1963]

Bing also bring us alot of traffic. Wait and see.

[kenshin]

i agree. bing is not the next big thing

[afunguy24]

Bing is not that bad definitely better than YSER (yahoo).

[menj1980]

I hardly consider TechCrunch to be a reliable source for a study of people behaviour and internet trends.

[sakto]

It's too early to tell for that kind of poll. Remember, Microsoft has the machinery to propagate Bing as a matter of fact they have already placed Bing in your hotmail account not to mention the popular operating system they own. Wait till you see them packaging Bing with the latest Windows 7 just like what they did with Internet Explorer that eventually kills netscape.

[Kaabi]

I think it's nice that Microsoft is trying to beat Google, but it just isn't going to happen. Google is simply too powerful, there search results are the best, and they offer amazing services that Microsoft can't even come close to.

[enhu]

yeah i'll probably just test my search to bing after a month. i just dont see how it improved/

[drhowarddrfine]

Originally Posted by maxxcwl

I hardly consider TechCrunch to be a reliable source for a study of people behaviour and internet trends.

That's nice. Unfortunately for you, TechCrunch did not conduct the study and only reported the results.

[drhowarddrfine]

Originally Posted by sakto

Wait till you see them packaging Bing with the latest Windows 7 just like what they did with Internet Explorer that eventually kills netscape.

And it put Microsoft under US Federal oversite to this day, along with $2 billion in fines. Do you think they'd like to repeat that?

[hash1]

Bing is the poorest excuse of a search engine ever devised. Simply terrible.

[Qryztufre]

Originally Posted by hash1

Bing is the poorest excuse of a search engine ever devised. Simply terrible.

Ive been to worse... but I've certainly been to better!

The top results to me seemed paid, and I'm not digging that.

[Yusei]

Bing still has to walk a long way to beat the big G. Don't count on it being the major search engine or even competition in the next 5 years, unless something drastic happens to Google.

[Flip-Side Entertainment]

Yea i started getting traffic from bing. Google still win for me.

[Ragnarok]

It's too early to tell, but so far Google is still no 1

[mr_vampire]

Ya Google rules ..Bing will take years to catch up with Google.

[sandeep211499]

As a Search Engine Visitor, I love Goooooogle, Bing needs much work to overtake Google which i don't see in next few years.