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Comparing Google and Bing search results

By Adam Myers ⋅ August 7, 2009 ⋅ Tags: Google, Internet

Bing, Microsoft’s latest shot across Google’s search supremacy bow, has continued to steadily gain market share since it’s launch in June 2009. Last week Microsoft completed a 10-year deal with Yahoo which would replace Yahoo’s search technology with Bing which promptly gave Bing around 20% of the search traffic. Bing is officially a player in the lucrative search marketplace and regardless of your feelings surrounding Microsoft or Google, competition is a great thing.

Human nature causes us to resist change. Typically, for a change to occur in society, the new result must be substantially better then the current situation. Is Bing that much better than Google, if it is better at all? Probably not, at least not yet, but it’s clear that Microsoft has finally gotten their latest offering headed in the correct direction after many failed attempts such as MSN and Live Search. As a technology enthusiast, as you likely are, it is your responsibility to give Bing a fair shake and use it as your exclusive search engine for a week or so. I truly believe that.

But what if you are not ready to leave the comfort of the big G? Bing-vs-Google.com might be a site of interest for you. The site runs a comparative search on your parameters and returns the results in two panes in the browser – Bing on the left and Google on the right. It presents a method that is pretty simple to see which engine returned the best information on your query.

I’ve ate up everything Google for a few years now but even I have to admit at being impressed with Bing.