I'm not sure that bing will be number one. we see in 3-4 months. and of course let's wait feedback from google
google is far more popular and superior to bing... bing needs to really make some miracle algorithms to beat google
Bing is doomed to fail. Gates should have spent that $100 million instead on making PC's immune to viruses!
Bing still far behind from google. Bill Gates just aim for 10% of the internet market. However, google are taking 65% of the search engine market now
I like the direction Microsoft seems to be going with Bing, but I think that such a large company, even with it's huge pool of resources & billions of dollars, Microsoft may struggle with the creative juices, determination & unified vision from its employees, trapped in their salaried, cubicle jobs, to have the incentive to truly dominate search like Google has for so long (in internet years). It's the no-name Cinderella stories like Facebook, Myspace, eBay, Craigslist, Twitter & Google that seem to have had the vision & drive to truly innovate & eventually dominate their markets. Microsoft was once in that category, but in the software arena. Now they're a huge bureaucracy of a monopoly... and they want a stake in The Cloud. They'll get it, but it won't be by their old ways of thinking. It will most likely come through mergers & acquisitions of smaller companies with more ... freedom (and talent).
I think that bing will take some of the market share from Google because the search functions and results appear more tailored. However it will take some time to change people's habits from using one search engine to another
I agree with you, and it is happening from what I see with my analytics reports. Aside from that, I am also hearing young kids (I teach) talking about Bing being the "In thing" (mainly for image search)...and they will get older.
Microsoft would also do well to push their embed-able / syndicate...able content. The viral effect is no joke. Gadgets, Videos, etc.
Does anyone know yet if there is a significant difference between how Bing rates site vs. Google? I mean, google blends on-page seo (title, tags, meta, content, content freshness) with off-page factors (links, how links are structured, and where they are located) so is Bing using the same types of things or is it different? I seemed to find on some of my sites that Yahoo seemed to give more weight to the keyword phrase being in the actual domain name and how many pages the site consisted of. Google gave more weight to links and the actual page content itself. I'm wondering where the weight is going to be on Bing.
They all use some variation of the same. Weighting is different. Relevance, Trust, Quality, Intent, other Google isms. On-Page Factors (Keywords, Related Words, Grammar, Structure, etc) Off-Page Factors (Links, Authority Links, Topical Links, Natural Links) Behavioral Factors (CTR, Bounce Rate, Time-on-page, Page Visits)
How funny is it though? - Simple re-branding generated so much attention... Bing it. Haha. It works! "Decision Engine" - perfect timing. Google's Universal search is a frickin hodgepodge. Images, Video, Maps, News, Shopping, etc all in the same top 10 results? Give me some categorical options!
The existence of Bing is good. I dont think they will kill Google, and Google will not kill Boing. Both will be there and that are good news for all of us.
Bing is 5 years behind Google.. Microsoft does not know internet.. Microsoft is always late when speaking internet.. They were late with Internet Explorer. Even if they were late they could not manage to offer a good web browser... Altough every damn computer on earth has internet explorer installed, people still use Firefox... Statistics show that Firefox is used more widely then Internet Explorer.. They were late with their search engine too.. And they made a real awful one!!.. Live search was nothing but a big joke.. They can rename it to anything they want.. Bing? Ding? Dong?... Does not make a sense.. Google is the leader.. And they will stay as the leader.. Because philosophy is different.. Microsoft is a "wanna-be enterprise" desktop kid.. Google is the Linux lord... period.
Almost half the browser market share, and that's a bad thing? Can you imagine what would happen if they leveraged their browser more than they do? They could do like Chrome & offer Bing Search from the address bar. They could co-brand IE & Bing. They could (and might already) automatically assign MSN as the home page & Bing as the default search provider. They could leave up permanent bookmark toolbar links to Image, Video, Local, News & other searches. How about if the MSN, Live or Bing Bar were standard by default? It's been a while since I've installed IE. What if they created updates to the browser every frickin day like FireFox, and constantly asked you if you would like to make the MSN services default, & promoted their new features? They might already do a lot of this. Granted they have some catching up to do, but I think they CAN do it. If they offer a quality, customizable, easy-to-use interactive product, brand it well, target it well, market it well, syndicate well, maintain user loyalty through dependence & accustomed-ness and monetize optimally, they and anyone else with the resources & know-how can compete with Google.
we'll see what happens but one thing is for sure, they need to do more hard works and efforts before they beat google...