
As promised I will give an update about Bing. Microsoft’s new search engine did well in its first week. It even got more marketshare than Yahoo at one day, but this is probably the start-up hype it currently has! Microsoft is planning a 100 million dollar campaign for Bing which may be a good start, but sure isn’t enough to get a decent piece of the search marketshare (Google has 71% in the US)!
Personally I really hope Bing will become healthy competition for Google! I am a fanatic Google user at the moment, but also try to use Bing more. My other sites also start to get some traffic from Bing, but that might be from normal MSN Live Search users…
Here are some commercials for Bing:
What do you think about these?
Also… Matt Cutts about Bing on twitter:
Matt Cutts: Congrats to @bing on the launch! Sad to see this not-so-relevant result at #4 for [matt cutts] though: http://bit.ly/4a8Q1Y
Bing: @mattcutts anytime you want to give feedback to @bing, we’re here.
I’m sitting with the devs at present. ^betsy
Bing: @mattcutts I know you are disappointed in ego search stuff tonight w/ @bing, but try ‘mtv movie awards 2009′ and see what you get.
^ba
Matt Cutts: Ouch. The #5 Bing result for [matt cutts] is spammy too: http://bit.ly/B2r5F It’s a YouTube->WordPress autogenerated blog.
Matt Cutts: @bing okay. First web result was from 2008 instead of 2009, even with 2009 in query: http://bit.ly/SToK1 . Google nails it.
Matt Cutts: @bing but doesn’t it bother you that [mtv movie awards] on Google gives great news results and 2009 url, but w/Bing I only see 2008, 2007, ?
Bing: @mattcutts Uh – the first answer folks see is the news answer, not what you circled. Apparently twilight won. ^ba
Matt Cutts: @bing by the way, Twilight did rock. I’m not ashamed to say it–glittery vampires rule!!
That’s about it between Matt Cutts and Bing! Looks like Matt Cutts is trying to protect Google. Bing is just starting up and I expect that the results will be more relevant and better after their first month. Bing has yet to decide what to place at what position I guess ![]()
I didn’t know that Microsoft was working on a Search Engine. I think I’ve used Google as a Search Engine 99% of my life time. It’s going to be hard to get used to another Search Engine if it’s better