Look wise bing is better but right now bing is giving more emphasis on URL name during keyword search. It will be tough task for bing to outbeat google but in long future it can. But personally no chance for bing to go ahead or somewhere near to google.

Try putting /ig at the end of your Google URL - e.g. if you're in the UK you'd use

You can decorate it how you like.

On a different note, welcome to Plime. As a little word of advice can I recommend that you don't upvote your own comments.

It does nothing for your ranking and makes people look at you funny. We call it plasturbating. I'm sure you can guess why.

Here is a report on Bing's search market growth as of 9/16/09.

Nah Bing will neve beat google, Microsoft can try and buy as many search engine companies as they want but its still the same google rules at search engine technology because thats all they do and focus on.

splogger.

Where?

Up there. But he's been nullified already.

Ah, ok.

Anyways, I officially switched to Bing a few days ago, as I mentioned somewhere else. So far it's not that bad. It takes a bit of getting used to the layouts and organization of results, but it's not terrible. Certainly better than Live Search was or Yahoo Search. I'm sure that with time and use it will index more pages and return more relevant results, but at this point, they aren't that terrible.

I still use Google at work, however.

We still have to wait and see. According to statistics, it is getting a little share of Yahoo.

The beauty about technology is that it is always changing and no service stays the same for too long otherwise people get tired of it. Google will not always be the darling of technology even if its services are free. People get tired of an over dominating force as they did with MS and gradually abandoned it.

Update: I switched back to Google. My verdict: Bing is not that bad, actually. The results are pretty relevant and it's easy to navigate through them, unlike a lot of other search pages that slam you with ads and make it difficult to identify what's an ad and what isn't. However, the relevance of the search results weren't perfect (well, they aren't for Google either) and their library of sites isn't quite as expansive as Google's. Google wins out here just through shear size. However, I would keep an eye on Bing in the future to see if anything comes of them.

Bing may be growing fast, but it is only slightly larger than the search engine it replaced.

I used bing for a day and I was impressed how much better it is now than it was when it started. If it improves like this it will take over Google maybe even in a year or two.

Not so long as MS is running with that "Decision Engine" crap. I don't need a f**king decision engine, I can think for myself thanks, and I'm not a bag of hammers (dumb as) who can't figure out how to use search terms. So yeah...MS WILL eat not beat Yahoo, and neither will beat Google except for with the brainless who need a "decision engine" to take a crap ie AOhell users and people over 60.

Methinks you're going a bit too far with Microsoft's traditionally crappy marketing. ;)

yeah...maybe but that whole campaign is totally booty.

You know, I don't care too much for bing...somehow I updated/installed something, and it became my default search engine for a little while and I tried it out and just felt like the results were all over the place.
Also, I feel like their commercials where people spout out lots of random, loosely related info. is actually pretty descriptive of what it feels like to use bing. And I don't like all of the junk going on with the layout/background images...too distracting!

I was using it yesterday through necessity and they haven't got the little things right - that really irks me.

Like most people I do that thing that seems lazy but actually takes more work whereby I'll search for a website even though I know the URL.

I was after Google Maps. Now if I search Google for that it knows I'm in the UK and points me straight at the UK iteration of the service. Bing, on the other hand, assumed that even though I was in Wembley I'd want to look up US geographic locations.

That puts me off.

I don't think anyone can beat Google right not, not for a long time.