A Bing Test-Drive: Try It, You’ll Like It
My first impression of Microsoft’s new Bing search engine/UI is favorable and the color scheme complements the OakLeaf blog. I particularly like the popup excerpts from my Azure test harnesses on OakLeaf#.CloudApp.Net:
(Click each image to open a full-size (1024 x 768) capture.)
Compared to Google’s presentation:
I don’t have an explanation for the extreme difference in hits on “oakleaf systems”: 429,000 for Bing and 8,490 for Google.
Narrowing the search to include Azure delivers these results:
And:
This time, Bing delivered almost twice the number of hits as Google.
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2 comments:
I think you think quantity means quality...
have you ever looked on page 2 of search results? The quality of the first 10 results is most important for the success of a search engine in my opinion and Bing cannot reach Google in this point in my opinion.
@Fabian,
I don't see a wide discrepancy in the quality of the first 10 results between Bing and Google.
--rj
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