bing in Quite Good Shock

Google is a verb. It means “to search for on the internet”. Perhaps one day it will also mean “to take over the world”. Perhaps not.

Anyhoo, like everyone else I’ve used Google for all my searching needs since forever. Today I had a go with the Microsoft competitor, bing. I’d heard nice things about it, and so I thought I’d give it a go. And the big surprise is that it is actually quite good. I’m not convinced it is as good as Google for everything, but it is certainly good enough to make make wish I had two search boxes on my browser toolbar, one for Google searching and another for Bing. The two actually complement each other quite nicely.

Bing is good for entertainment and travel, and displays its home page and the search results with a graphical pizzazz that Google lacks. Google is good for stuff a bit more off the beaten track and does maps better. But it is nice to see some proper competition in the search arena.

Comments

[Jacob]

Something seems to be up with your RSS-feed (or maybe it's just my Google Reader?) Anyhows, I keep getting your posts in batches and not on a per-post basis.

[Rob]

Yes. It is almost as if I'd done nothing for three weeks and then wrote a whole bunch of posts to catch up.......

[Jacob]

Can't tell if that's sarcastic or not, but I forgot to include that although the dates on the posts are all the same in Google Reader, I can see that they're different on the actual website which led me to believe that perhaps your RSS-feed was acting up.

[Rob]

Hmmm. More guilty than sarcastic. If you look at the updates link on this page you can find that I actually did spend quite a while in catchup mode. I'm not sure why I insist on having a post per day but I try to keep the illusion up, even if the reality is not quite the same. Thanks for your concern though.