Why Bing cannot be trusted

A radio futurologist writing about what happens when radio and new platforms collide

Posted on Thursday, June 11th, 2009 at 11:00pm. #

“Linux protects you from viruses”

Here’s a bit of fun.

1. Go to the front page of Google, type “linux”, and look at the auto-suggestions that automatically appear. (Don’t press enter.)

2. Go to the front page of Bing, type “linux”, and look at the auto-suggestions that automatically appear.

I don’t know about you, but to me, that looks slightly less than trustworthy…

Photo: Tristan Nitot. Used under licence – merci!

Rob Abdul
commenting at June 26th, 2009 at 10:37am

I don’t think that Bing will be successful until Microsoft sort out their indexing issues.

For example, sites that have almost all their pages indexed in Google have barely 20% indexed in Bing.

Therefore Bing is not seeing most of the web.

I wish Microsoft would sort this out – they have millions at their disposal and the brightest people working for them.

Jade
commenting at October 21st, 2009 at 4:09pm

Bing does give search results much like Google but i would have to say that Google still gives more relevant search results

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