Will Bing beat Google in search engine war ?
Microsoft has recently launched it's new search engine called Bing. Because Google dominates the world of search engines, existing search engines like Yahoo, Altavista and Windows Live search had to do something to stay in the competition. Microsoft did a great job with it's Bing but will it beat Google ? No. I don't think (and I don't want) Microsoft to beat Google in the web world (search engine, messaging, etc...). Google has the vision a lot of people want, which is continuously evoluting. They do things like people want them to be. Microsoft always to do same thing : take ideas of other people and copy them so they always are behind people (it's not 100% true but in general it's a Microsoft reality).
Let's compare Bing and Google...
| |
Google |
Bing |
| Average search time |
<1 second |
<1 second |
| Built-in calculator |
Yes |
Yes |
| Global look |
Great |
Great |
| Built-in currency converter |
Yes |
Yes |
| Ads |
Yes |
Yes |
| Relevance of image search results |
Great |
Great |
| Widgets on homepage |
Yes |
No |
| Relevance of search results |
Great |
Great |
| "Did you mean" functionnality |
Great |
Average |
| Caching feature |
Yes |
Yes |
| Definition (define:) functionnality |
Yes |
No |
| In title (intitle:) functionnlity |
Yes |
No |
| Number of search results |
Great |
Good |
| Shopping search |
Yes |
Yes |
| "I feel lucky" functionnality |
Yes |
No |
| Map search |
Yes |
Yes |
| News |
Available everywhere |
Not available everywhere |
| Number of built-in search tools |
Great |
Average |
| Translator |
Yes |
Yes |
| Travel search |
Yes |
Yes |
If you want to see more comparison, you can take a look at this study by the Catalyst group.
As you can see, Bing is not Google, it only wants to be Google !