Nice ads…lots of money on terms and marketing (what’s new?) but my quick search using Bing showed nothing very different from a Google search. But then Google just gives us lots of answers, Bing gives us the means of a decision. Semantics never were so sweet….let’s pray MS has some substance behind the BS.
V.M Daniel Regents Professor of Information
They just got into a 10 year marriage with yahoo where MS provides the ‘substance’ for both while you markets for both.
I doubt MS will deliver any substance from it’s BS (bing service) … i think directory services (wikipedia for knowledge, youtube for video, flickr for images) are turning out to be more meaningful search channels than the general the general google search.
Linked in and social networks have fixed the ‘people’ search problems that used to exist on the internet…
Blogs are searchable on blog aggregators like technorati.
If we apply the ‘google crawl’ where the spiders go out and arrange information within those channels, rather than awaiting user assisted directory submittals then i think search will get much better.
Think of a google search with a drop down list where the dropdown has as follows:
Knowledge, people, companies, traditional media, blogs and new media, video, image, social networks (after all the forums disappear and reappear as groups)…etc
I think then you will get a much richer search format.
It would be hard for Microsoft to take over Google as the main search engine of most internet users. Because while Bing works to improve their seach results in order to compete with the number one search engine, Google is also improving their own search results. But this competition will surely benefit most internet users.