Comments on: Why We Should Root for Bing http://www.verticalmeasures.com/search-optimization/why-we-should-root-for-bing/ Intelligent Internet Marketing Thu, 16 May 2013 04:41:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chris Lang http://www.verticalmeasures.com/search-optimization/why-we-should-root-for-bing/comment-page-1/#comment-1934 Chris Lang Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:40:56 +0000 http://www.verticalmeasures.com/?p=2449#comment-1934 BING, or (But It’s Not Google) has one flaw in it’s marketing:

Google is not broken, there is nothing wrong with the search results we get.

If Google was the only game in town and it did not return to me what I want, then BING would have a chance with me.

With Google’s new filtering by date, I can not only get great results from my searches but I can get the latest AND best articles.

When I search for Google Friend Connect to see what my competition is writing on the subject I can filter the results to the latest published and lots more.

That way I don’t get the TechCrunch article from May 2009. I get the latest articles published from the best sites.

Try a search for a tech article. You will get the same top 10 sites like TechCrunch, Mashable, SearchEngineLand and ReadWriteWeb and most of the articles will be from last year.

Now in the same search click “show options” and get a search filtered by date.

Hence I have no reason to even look at BING.

]]> By: Chris Lang http://www.verticalmeasures.com/search-optimization/why-we-should-root-for-bing/comment-page-1/#comment-6916 Chris Lang Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:40:00 +0000 http://www.verticalmeasures.com/?p=2449#comment-6916 BING, or (But It’s Not Google) has one flaw in it’s marketing:

Google is not broken, there is nothing wrong with the search results we get.

If Google was the only game in town and it did not return to me what I want, then BING would have a chance with me.

With Google’s new filtering by date, I can not only get great results from my searches but I can get the latest AND best articles.

When I search for Google Friend Connect to see what my competition is writing on the subject I can filter the results to the latest published and lots more.

That way I don’t get the TechCrunch article from May 2009. I get the latest articles published from the best sites.

Try a search for a tech article. You will get the same top 10 sites like TechCrunch, Mashable, SearchEngineLand and ReadWriteWeb and most of the articles will be from last year.

Now in the same search click “show options” and get a search filtered by date.

Hence I have no reason to even look at BING.

]]> By: Lucy Griffiths http://www.verticalmeasures.com/search-optimization/why-we-should-root-for-bing/comment-page-1/#comment-1924 Lucy Griffiths Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:18:41 +0000 http://www.verticalmeasures.com/?p=2449#comment-1924 Until the initial hype of Bing has calmed down it will be difficult to see how things will turn out. If Bing does succeed then that will be great to see some real competition for Google, but I guess searchers will have the final say on that.

]]> By: Lucy Griffiths http://www.verticalmeasures.com/search-optimization/why-we-should-root-for-bing/comment-page-1/#comment-6915 Lucy Griffiths Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:18:00 +0000 http://www.verticalmeasures.com/?p=2449#comment-6915 Until the initial hype of Bing has calmed down it will be difficult to see how things will turn out. If Bing does succeed then that will be great to see some real competition for Google, but I guess searchers will have the final say on that.

]]> By: Jonathan Bentz http://www.verticalmeasures.com/search-optimization/why-we-should-root-for-bing/comment-page-1/#comment-1903 Jonathan Bentz Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:57:53 +0000 http://www.verticalmeasures.com/?p=2449#comment-1903 Yeah, don’t get me wrong, I love the idea of Google having a legitimate competitor (or two). But even when Microsoft sees an uptick in search volume – what they get still pales in comparison to the daily numbers Google gets. While it’s great that Microsoft is interested in spending to compete, it very well could be for naught. I know for me, personally, that while I watch Microsoft rankings for my clients, I don’t use Bing to search.

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