Comparisons between Google and Bing
My last post was about the possibility of Bing knocking Google off the top spot for search engine market share. Since that blog, I have discovered a very interesting tool that will allow you to compare the search results for Google, Bing, Yahoo and Twitter. Mixxr (www.mixxr.co.uk) displays the search results of each search engine side by side. Mixxr is a great tool for comparing the results of the top search engines enabling you to make an informed decision about which one you prefer or which is more relevant.
Microsoft are clearly aiming to make a big entrance into the search engine market with Bing, with their big launch at the beginning of the month, their enormous marketing budget and their in-depth market research. Microsoft have recognised that search engine users are not always looking for a website, but often looking for the answer to a question and with Bings unique feature allowing you to view part of a websites content without entering the site, information is provided much more quickly.
Illustrating their long term strategy for Bing, Steve Ballmer (Chief Executive of Microsoft), was recently quoted as saying “I don’t want to over-set expectations. We are going to have to be tenacious and keep up the pace of innovation over a long period of time.”
For the search engine optimisers among us, becoming familiar with Bings algorithms may be necessary in the not to distant future. Bing has already taken a noticeable slice of the UK search engine market, overtaking Yahoo and Ask with a 3.15% market share already. We could soon see the use of Google and Bing become fairly evenly split creating the need from an SEO perspective to consider your positions within two search engines with slightly different algorithms.
Tags: algorithms, bing, Google, Search Engines
June 26th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
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.
August 6th, 2009 at 8:57 am
my initial test result shows that Bing is as good as Google when displaying relevant search results. Google might be having a tough competitor with Microsofts own search engine.
August 22nd, 2009 at 10:13 am
Microsoft Bing would be the closet competitor of Google. but i still use Google because it shows more relevant results on the serp.