Bing Earned Itself A Place In Safari, Manan Kakkar, TNW Microsoft via the Next Web (June 13)
Manan Kakkar decided to keep Bing as the default search engine after a week of use, finding that it did better on some types of queries - and displays related terms better.
No question about related terms - Google hides its related searches at the bottom or in the wonder wheel, and Bing places them in the upper left.
The test question were very general: Arthritis, Larry King, Martin Luther King, Porsche 911 Turbo.
Bing's clustering shows well on the arthritis search - something that Google could learn from. Generally speaking, Bing does have a nice display.
BUT on Martin Luther King, Bing ranked the white supremist site, "A true historical examination" in second spot, right after Wikipedia. What kind of authority assessment is that? Google places it at 8th spot with Wikipedia also in first place. We know Google has a weakness for Wikipedia - we can adjust our eyes to skip over that.
For my shopping search - panasonic lumix dmc-zs7 - Google started with 8 results from review sources, and the official panasonic site as 9th. Bing had two suspicious domains in the top 10 - panasoniclumixdmc-zs7.com/ and panasonic-lumix-dmc-zs7.com - that looked very similar - close to spam. At Google I can select More Shopping Sites, and can limit to Discussions.
My pick - still Google.
Posted by Gwen at June 14, 2010 12:00 PM