Comments on: Bing, an Engine to Help You Make Decisions http://flipthemedia.com/index.php/2009/06/bing-an-engine-to-help-you-make-decisions/ At the crossroads of Media, Culture and Technology Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:53:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Brook Ellingwood http://flipthemedia.com/index.php/2009/06/bing-an-engine-to-help-you-make-decisions/comment-page-1/#comment-3548 Brook Ellingwood Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:44:46 +0000 http://flipthemedia.com/?p=3324#comment-3548 Of course, the first test I subjected Bing to was to search for my own name. It returns the same woefully bad results that MSN Live Search always did for the same vanity search. It's kind of cool that my one IMDB credit from over a decade ago shows up first, but it's pretty irrelevant, especially in comparison to Google's results, which start with my LinkedIn profile, then follow with my personal site at http://brookellingwood.com. I made it 7 pages into Bing's results before giving up on ever finding http://brookellingwood.com at all. Considering that I've done a ton of work on making that site discoverable (including linking it twice in this post) that's pretty strange. Maybe Bing really does do "decision-y" things better than Google, but unless they also can get the "discover-y" things that people need all the time right, they aren't going to make much of a dent in the big G's traffic numbers. Of course, the first test I subjected Bing to was to search for my own name. It returns the same woefully bad results that MSN Live Search always did for the same vanity search. It’s kind of cool that my one IMDB credit from over a decade ago shows up first, but it’s pretty irrelevant, especially in comparison to Google’s results, which start with my LinkedIn profile, then follow with my personal site at http://brookellingwood.com. I made it 7 pages into Bing’s results before giving up on ever finding http://brookellingwood.com at all. Considering that I’ve done a ton of work on making that site discoverable (including linking it twice in this post) that’s pretty strange.

Maybe Bing really does do “decision-y” things better than Google, but unless they also can get the “discover-y” things that people need all the time right, they aren’t going to make much of a dent in the big G’s traffic numbers.

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