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They both seem to think that dogpile.com is the \"best search engine\". Neither lists themselves or the other in the top 10 of \"best search engine\".
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@moore850: that is great, and I'm annoyed I didn't think to search for that. I wonder if Bingbombing will be the next big thing.
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I applaud Microsoft for trying, but Bing is worthless and its ads are incredibly annoying.
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Bing shined on my limited tests. I searched \"harry potter\" and front and center on bind were movie showtimes for my area, followed by the official site, some other sites, and a ton of news results, and then images.
Google just gave me the official site, some other sites, and a few news results
@FrugalFreak: I tried searching myself, and found the Google results to be more current. A rather vain search I know, but Google beat Bing by a lot
@Geoff: Google has a function for showtimes. You search \"showtimes: [name of movie]\" to get showtimes near you.
Sadly, even if Bing turns out to be \"better\", I'm not sure it can overcome the incredible market share the Google has.
It's an impressive achievement, and much better than Cuil's sad attempt.
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@CaffiendCA: I'm not even sure it's meant to \"take over\" Google, just be a nuisance (a \"good-enough\" one at that). Similar to ChromeOS vs Windows - it might be good, but it won't topple Windows. But, it'll keep them occupied thinking about and developing against it, which is actually a good idea, business-wise. Especially if you can make some money off of it as well, and use it as a testbed for search you *really* want to actually do well at in the OS and Sharepoint, Exchange, Outlook, etc.
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@CaffiendCA: If Bing does turn out to be better, market share or not, Google will have some actual competition and have to up the ante. Bing will respond with further developments, and Google will follow that up. Competition = megawin.
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@CaffiendCA: I remember when Alta Vist had an incredible market share, and before that Yahoo. The public is finicky, and will chase the next hot thing if it is good enough. I suppose some will try Bing becuase they feel a bit uneasy about Google's dominance and growing clout. MS doesn't seem so bad when you start to think how big Google is getting.
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I'm not sure how I feel about the phrase \"just bing it!\".
Sounds kinda dirty...
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How does it do when shopping for something?
When I searched Yahoo for a replacement ice maker for my fridge, I was annoyed that all of the paid ads were simply other aggregators. \"Find the best price on a [sic] ice maker at eBay.
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So far Bing has sucked. I've used it from the search bar in IE to pull up ABC shows that won't work in firefox w/o turning down my security settings, and Bing consistently doesn't give me the show's site in the first 5 or sometimes even 10 results; I get commentary, tv guide, imdb, but not the show itself. Maddening!
Wikipedia entries also come up surprisingly far down the list of results.
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Thanks for doing this, Consumerist. I was wondering about Bing.
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I've been using Bing since beta as Kumo and they finally got me as a long-time google lover to switch over. The related searches are helpful. Wikipedia is usually near the top for my searches so I'm not sure about people who have issues getting wiki results.
The maps, the mouseover video, and the image search organization are really treats to me.
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I hate the stupid hot spots that flash on the Bing background picture. I avoid the site just because of this alone. Too distracting.
I'd need a bong before I used bing
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FTA:\"Bing also gave us the expected terminal and gate. We're not sure how practical this actually is, considering it's probably only useful if you're meeting someone at the airport\"
...or more likely, if your a passenger with a smart-phone (or laptop with wireless internet or on flight wifi) and the crew didn't tell you your arrival or departing gate (very likely), and you have only a few minutes to get there.
I personally still use Goog (more out of habit than anything else), but I've tried bing and am impressed with it's travel section (farecast).
And bing's shopping cashback seems to be more often than not a better deal than Google checkout (which seems to usually only gives marginally good deals if you are a first-time GCheckout user).
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As far as the gates are concerned, I often have tight connections. So, I fire up my blackberry the moment wheels touch and Google (they used to give you that info, at least) my arriving flight and connecting flight to see if it's going to be 1mi sprint or a 300m sprint. Gate info is extremely useful.
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My only experience with Bing so far is the map/satellite view used on Zillow.com. Zoom level, image clarity, and view options (north/south/east/west FTW!) have it all over Google Maps, even with their street view.
/usually a Micro$uck basher!
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I ran one search at Bing for a guitar tab for a rather common song and it gave me the lyrics as the first hit.
That was the end of my relationship with Bing- Google took me just where I wanted to go.
I work at a search engine and part of my job is dealing with movie results. It's interesting that you phrased your query about Harry Potter as a question when all the search engines will give some kind of special display for movies. The debate is what *kind* of info to show. To me, the context of time is pretty important--since this movie isn't out yet, you're most likely looking for release date and/or advance tickets. \"Harry Potter 6\" in Google has an annotated IMDB page on top. Bing has showtimes (but doesn't mention when it actually starts playing--confusing), and Yahoo just says \"coming soon to theaters, opening Wednesday, July 15.\" I believe both Google and Yahoo have showtimes/tickets when the movie is open.
Just interesting to note how different engines work and what people think about it. Intent is a pretty big chunk of what people building search engines are trying to figure out, and they all have a different approach.
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I would like to mention that being able to find the terminal and gate would have been helpful to me last time I flew; I had a short connection time and my ticket didn't have the info on it.
Of course, that assumes you have internet access. It wouldn't help while in the air.
@juri squared: Grr, I hate when they do that! It's like a big \"Hey, figure it out yourself!\".