{"id":5088,"date":"2009-07-09T15:48:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T15:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rocketclicks.com\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2009-07-09T15:48:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T15:48:27","slug":"comparing-search-engines-with-bing-vs-google-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocketclicks.com\/industry-news\/comparing-search-engines-with-bing-vs-google-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing Search Engines with Bing-Vs-Google.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
There\u2019s been substantial fanfare about the release of Bing, Microsoft\u2019s search engine.\u00a0\u00a0 By some measurements, such as Stats Counter, Bing is grabbing marketshare from Google and has the potential to supersede Yahoo in search traffic in the US and globally.<\/p>\n
If you want to compare it to Google, use www.bing-vs-google.com. This simple, useful tool allows you to run queries through both engines simultaneously and watch side by side results.\u00a0 We recommend horizontal comparisons because it works best with some of Bing\u2019s pop up preview features.<\/p>\n
What will you find?\u00a0 Bing is very attentive to usability.<\/p>\n
Like Google, Bing can filter by image size, color or black & white, faces versus other types of images, but it does it with one click instead of with dropdowns, makes those features more useable.\u00a0 Search \u201cmilwaukee art museum\u201d in www.bing-vs-google.com, then choose \u201cImages\u201d in top navigation.<\/p>\n
Instead of returning video results in one long text heavy panel, Bing returns a table of video start images with captions.\u00a0 Run them side by side and you\u2019ll notice the text associated with video searches is often nonsensical anyway.\u00a0 Search \u201cskydiving\u201d in www.bing-vs-google.com, then choose \u201cVideos\u201d in top navigation.<\/p>\n
Point to a search result and a pop-up summarizes the text surrounding your search term. Something similar has been possible in Google with a Firefox plug in for a while, but Bing makes it intuitive.\u00a0 Search for your name in www.bing-vs-google.com, then mouse over to the right side of Bing\u2019s search results.<\/p>\n
Bing positions a \u201cRelated Searches\u201d box on the left hand panel, a more convenient place than the bottom of the page links that Google similarly offers.\u00a0 Search for your favorite actor or actress in www.bing-vs-google.com, and compare Bing\u2019s left panel with Google\u2019s page bottom.<\/p>\n
Bing also positions subcategories in the left panel, and they\u2019re more useful, too.\u00a0 Google subcategories match up to portions of the single important site about the subject of a search.\u00a0 Bing subcategories in left navigation extend across all sites, although under individual sites they retain site-specific subcategories. Search for your sports team in www.bing-vs-google.com to compare.<\/p>\n
Bing allows you to create alerts on the fly from their news results within their search results, as long as you have a Microsoft Live account, of course.\u00a0 Try a current events search.<\/p>\n
Of course, technology quickly evolves among major players, and we\u2019d expect Google to learn from and quickly react to Bing\u2019s features and usability strengths.<\/p>\n
Enjoy searching!<\/p>\n