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Bing Is Better Than Predicted (and 2 Other Techy Tidbits)
Amanda Moshier | June 5th, 2009
It’s been a busy week here at Wpromote and an exciting week in technology. Each time I thought I had found the perfect topic for my blog post this week, something bigger, better, and shinier was announced to distract me. The first development I want to mention is the launch of free Google listings for local businesses, something I learned of thanks to Christian one of our SEO managers here at Wpromote. The service lets local businesses add their information to Google Maps and ensures it shows up in local search listings, an incredible tool if you ask me. I can attest to using Google Maps and local listings to find most things from restaurants to movies to dry cleaners. The second blog-worthy announcement this week was the early launch of Microsoft’s new decision/search portal, Bing which was released on Monday to mixed but mostly positive reviews. Specifically, there has been lots of talk suggesting the integration of images and video into its search results makes Bing preferable to Google. I’ve played around with it and found it returns better-than-Google results on some queries, and not-as-good-as-Google results on others. It is hard to say whether Bing is ‘better’ than Google this early in the game, but I hope its mere release is a sign Microsoft will gain some market share, because one guy running the show is never as fun as several. The third exciting launch this week also comes from Microsoft (did you just see that pig fly by?) Continue reading…
