It’s been a whole 24 hours of Binging my way through the search engines and I have to tell you it’s a bit awkward and it takes a bit of getting used to. I am still not quite used to seeing being when I search through Chrome of Firefox.
Bing is weak when searching for programming code. With Google when I usually enter a piece of code like “ob.style.width = GetWidth();” it will immediately give me a list of blogs or forums (outdated and current) with related links.
One of the worst things is that sometimes I FEEL the need to verify my search results by Google. I believe this will be Bing’s biggest hurdle in regards to taking market share from Google.
The great thing about Bing is the image search. It is way easier to use and navigate, gives me more relevant search results than Google does and yes it even looks better.
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
Google Buzz is a feeble attempt by a large company to show that they are social media savvy whilst invading your privacy and allowing spam in to your inbox.
What the hell are Google up to? Seriously? Shouldn’t they stick to what they’re good at? Organizing information on the web. You can’t be everything to everyone in this world.
After a few minutes of linking into Google Buzz the first thing that popped into mind was, how do I turn this fucker off? I couldn’t find the Google Buzz Off Button and then i noticed it was at the bottom of the page.
So if you don’t want Gmail to slow down and you don’t want anyone buzzing you while reading your e-mails choose the Buzz Off Button
I know Google Buzz might be useful, just don’t put in Gmail Google!
It’s not like Google to do TV Advertising but it just goes to show that there’s no reason to ignore offline Marketing Campaigns, especially when your major competitor (Bing) spent $100 million advertising their campaign.
SEOs tend to focus a lot on search engine optimization and perhaps some Pay Per Click, don’t. Try a different marketing medium and track what works best!
The reason I put this ad up is because as the title said, it’s Marketing Done Right. It connects with users on an emotional level without saying a word. Impressive, we can all learn from this.
2009 is nearly over and it’s always interesting to see what the top searches and top trending topics were for a given year. Bing has gave us the top web searches for 2009 and it seems that death and turmoil took over this year.
4 Dead celebrities, 1 deadly viruses, 1 dead tv series and 1 thought to be dead missing person since 2001.
Saving the day at number 2 is Twitter, a rockin, 140 character social network with unprecedented growth. Twitter is also the most used word of 2009 according to the Global Language Monitor (GLM)
Michael Jackson - Deceased Celebrity
Twitter - …
Swine Flu -
Stock Market
Farrah Fawcett - Deceased Celebrity
Patrick Swayze - Deceased Celebrity
Cash for Clunkers - A scrappage program is a government budget program to promote the replacement of old vehicles with modern vehicles. Also called “fleet modernization” or “scrappage” — would provide federal vouchers of up to $4,500 for people to trade in their vehicles for new ones that get better mileage.
Jon and Kate Gosselin - reality television show produced in the United States by Figure 8 Films about the Gosselin family, consisting of parents Jon and Kate and their eight children: fraternal twins and sextuplets)
Billy Mays - Deceased Celebrity
Jaycee Dugard - A gril who was Missing since 1991 and found alive
I just noticed that for any domain google is showing up to 3 pages now while before it used to need SEO skill (calculating even keyword deconty) or luck to get 2 page listings in Google.
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