Recently I have decided to give Bing, Microsoft’s search engine a try. I am opting for a whole week of Google Diet and use Bing as my default, full time 24/7 search engine.  Now I have been using Google as a search engine for ever since I can remember and I never really used MSN/Bing as for search. Even back in the day when I started my gnarley surfing on the internet and Google wasn’t popular, I used HotBot.com cause the ease to search the web for text, pictures and music rocked my world.

For my browser selection I have also neglected Microsoft, purely because I feel that Microsoft really left  developers to the side, they were late with tabbed browsing and when FireBug came to Firefox I was sold.  I use both Firefox (for the plugins) and Chrome (for browsing speed)  now and I use Internet Explorer only for testing my websites.

So why the sudden change of heart?

• I had to ask myself do people use Google for the quality results (of course we do) or do we use it because it comes as the default search engine in most browsers?
• Microsoft and Apple are in talks of cutting a deal to make Bing the default browser in the iPhone.
• Google’s results are becoming too bloated.
• I want to see what Microsoft’s $100 Million Marketing Campaign last year was all about? Branding or Quality Service? Hopefully both.
• I want to know if Microsoft can beat Google at their own game. In my opinion they are the only ones who have the resources to take them out.
• I like to get out of my comfort zone

If you haven’t seem them here are the Bing Commercials from 2009

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