azeem.azhar

I put together a quick Bing vs Google review. I find Bing a bit ‘meh’ to be honest. Nothing in their that is radically better. And unfortunately, hard to see how Bing will get consumers to switch to using it for some of their searches while continuing to use Google for others.

I tried to embed the review but couldn’t. Find it here.

Also very suprised that Bing have chosen to ape but not clone/copy Google’s UI despite hard evidence that people just prefer Google’s look and feel even when the results are served up by MSN or Yahoo.

Microsoft should know the value of aping the user interface. They overtook Lotus 1-2-3 by making sure Excel would work with 1-2-3’s menu shortcuts.

Today Bing is a bong.

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