Nick Stone wrote 'does anybody know how to submit a website at bing'? you do not need to....just build some quality links to your site and the bing robot/spider will find your site and index it.
I really dont think anyone can compete with Google. It was foolish of Microsoft to even try. Google destroyed yahoo and ask.com I dont know why microsoft thought they could do better.
I am not sure about whether Bing provides quality search experience. I searched for 'eyebrowse' in Bing and my expected result didnt appear in the first 10 results whereas it appeared in the 2nd or 3rd spot in Google.
Both of which are pretty much useless to me. I have applied to adcenter 2 or 3 times in the past couple of years and I never even got a reply. I do not need another video search engine, google does just fine. I need quality places to submit my videos. As a video blogger, I need good quality, popular sites to submit my videos to. Right now, youtube is the best place because that is where I get most of my video views. MSN has a video site, but I can not figure out how to upload my videos there. Google has blogger, adsense, search engine, image search, video search, and lots of other stuff. If microsoft wants to compete, they need to step up and do so. I can post a video on youtube, and the preview image is shown in the google results pages. Bing has no preview image, no video hosting site tied in their search engine,,,,.
FYI: http://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap= Yes the tools and general help for webmasters at Bing is outstanding. Sounds like some folks here just don't like the idea of having an option besides Google. They still represent over 90% of all our site traffic, though.
Bing has the muscle power of Microsoft and the expertise of Yahoo behind it. I am sure they might have huge plans and if microsoft is involved in something then they would go to any extent to meet the challenge. It is too early to bracket them as success and failure. Bing might not beat Google in near future but might have scared them. It is good to have healthy competition as the winners are always the users.
Bing is definitely a good search engine. I've been analyzing keywords from my pages in both Google and Bing. Bing tends to list my newer content quicker than Google, usually in only a day or two. Also, my site is newer and hasn't been around for years and years. Google tends to index old sites faster while neglecting fresh and relevant content from newer sites. For example, if my newer site has a monthly promotion or a new product that came out, Google shows my results 2 months late. This just isn't about my site. It turns out that Bing ranked many more competitors with relevant reviews, news or promotions of the same product. During this same time, Google only ranked 1 site in it's results for that product, only because that site was an old dinosaur that was around for years and could get pages indexed quickly. All the new sites have to wait a long time before Google puts them in the search results for that keyword, even when there wasn't much competition for this product to begin with. After 2 months (now October), my monthly promotions for August are useless. The conclusion here is Bing is definitely on the ball with providing fresh and relevant content to web users regardless of how old a site is. Just because a site is old doesn't mean it's the best. I've seen Google listing irrelevant information/products/promotions from 1999 (the previous decade) before newer pages. Here is the answer for you about Bing failing. Bing is quite new and doesn't have as many people using it. I've been noticing more and more visitors coming to my site from Bing. This is just indicating that more people are starting to use Bing now, probably people fed up with Google showing old results or pages only from the same old websites that have been around for years rather than newer and fresher content. Just the fact that more people are being referred to my site from Bing suggests that Bing is becoming wildly successful, especially with the increase in traffic in such a short period of time. I predict a lot more people will be using Bing for search.
No Bing hasn't failed since they're about to take over Yahoo's search share now, which was bigger than MSN's. But Google is still the best to me, hands down.
I do not find Bings results to be as relevant as Googles, although it is better than MSN search was. I do great on Google and Bing. If Bing is going to power Yahoo, that's good news for my sites.
MSN video is for proffessional made videos, but they have a section to users(http://www.mydigitallife.info/2006/...box-on-msn-video-another-youtube-alternative/) and just because that it is no good for your site it doesn't mean that it has failed
Google has got worse in the UK recently, but Bing still can't compete. Plus as a webmaster I think MSN is lame.
What can't people just accept nobody will ever totally beat the big G? They're way ahead of everyone else and all these promises can't be supported. Google is too big, too rich and too overpowering to bring down now unless they screw something up themselves.
Bing has to go back to the drawing board -- just cut the losses, cause I know that there's potential with Bing, but as of right now there's no effectiveness coming from it, in regards to it's competitors (Y! & Google)