It is NOT beta. You're making that up. Because its search results are decidedly 3rd rate. I'll have to look again but I think image search was considered its worst ability.
More like 3 weeks but it is a replacement for Live so it's not like it's brand new out of the blue. It's had $100 million in advertising and all Live links point to it so it doesn't need any breaks.
Where do you see that? I just showed the most quoted stat site that shows Bing has lost half the market share it gained from all the hype and now has about half of Yahoo's market share. So are you making it up on your own or because you use it then everyone must be?