“would they not be more inclined to click the first result they saw, even if it was relevant or not?”

I think there could even be something built in on Bing that automatically clicks the first search result for you. When I do mistype something and Bing pops up I immediately curse and while trying to hit the back page button, somehow I am taken to a search result link I swear I didn’t click on. Google is my internet homepage….always and forever.

> Taken at face value, it

bing is one insecure search engine i tell you.

Some people use Google for spelling. A good percentage of my google usage is a math query in my browser’s search bar. Sometimes the info is presented without the need to click through (weather, stock quotes), sometimes i can read the webpage’s snippet and get the info I need. Sometimes I need to clarify my search terms. Sometimes I want an image or news search and I lazily type the query into my browsers search bar and have to switch which google I’m using.

When I use chrome, all mistyped address come up as searches.

I bet the authors had a combination of bad assumptions and poor methodology to come to the conclusions they did.

Takes forever for bing to index a new site, thus, compromising the results.

For example: our site went live 2 years ago. Google indexed it fully in one month (its 100k pages long) Many of our pages list 1 or 2 to many querys in our area becouse this info ins not available anywhere else.

Today Bing (2 YEARS latter) still did not indexed the full site yet. They get less them 10% of our content. Thus, they fail miserably for most of this querys…

The best search engine is not better only in the top 100 searches it must be a great search engine in the long tail as well.

Plus more clicks means “BAD SITE EXTRACTS” and not good search results.

I began using Bing in January, and I haven’t turned back. I do a lot of research for my work, and part of that research is reliant on using a simple web search. I’ve found that Bing gives me better results, and I’m wondering if it’s that people have just learned how to game the algorithm that google uses to rank results. Anyone have an opinion?

I like it. I love the home page, but we have also found that it mirrors Yahoo in content and placement.

Its not really surprising that Bing is overtaking Google. Lots of staff are leaving Google for elsewhere and Google has ‘suspended’ thousands of web places accounts. People are fed up with the problems at Google and are using other sites for search, ppc, advertising etc. Sombody at Google should come clean and tell us if they really cannot host and supply all of the web information that they hold.

Bing Might Over take Google as the Preferred Search Engine if Google keeps turining a blind-eye business owners complaints about ‘Complaint Websites’.

Many people, companies, businesses and organizations have found themselves or are the victims of negative postings on ‘Complaint Websites such as Rip-0F-F- Re-p0-rt,
P1ss-0F-F- C0n$u-mers and others.

(All purposely typed-out the way because I do not want to give these websites or it’s owners ANY web reference weight by correctly spelling the domain name)

I have been following these websites for some time now and have learned two distinct things.

1) You either love or hate them.
2) These type of websites are turning the Internet into an information cesspool.

Let’s talk about point number one. You either love or hate them

You Love Them

You might love these types of websites because they provide you an online sounding board to vent, rant, whine and complain about a negative experience you might have had with product, service, person or company.

I can relate. Recently my wife had a bad experience with an employee of a local retailer; part of a national jewelry store chain.

It would have been cathartic for me to post negative reviews, but I chose to take the high road and keep my complaints between me, the store and the corporate office. As a small business man myself, making public posts would not contribute to the common economic good as it does not reflect well for the good employees who work in this store, and only serving some personal desire to impugn or embarrass this company online.

Having worked in corporate America and received a regular pay check for many years I probably who not have given it a second thought. I would have jumped right into the fray and posted a negative comment on a complaint website. However these past 10 years I own my company and this changes your perspective in a big way.

You Hate Them

You hate these types of websites because they are wide open to abuse. Examples of abuse include; Ex-employees posting false statements or Competitors posting false statements hoping to steal your sales or business.

Most people assume that some legal action is the best way to get a fraudulent posting removed, but think again. If you have a rich uncle or your father is a partner in a huge law firm you might try suing the website having the negative post for fun. But this is extremely expensive to do, not to mention the fact that every case brought before a court is never going to be a clear cut victory in your favor.

Also remember we live in America. Negative speech whether it be true or false is protected in most states. This is a tradition that was exercised in new papers and leaf lets during the political campaigns going all the way back to Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.

However today the big difference is that the negative speech or in this case ‘online postings’ remain live and online indefinitely. And this has led to the proliferation of a new cottage industry called ‘Reputation Management’.

In the case of a political rival having ran so much negative advertising of an opponent, the opponent would seek to run as many or more ads to counter-act his rival and so on and so on. But long after the campaign is over the dust settles down and all the campaign fodder becomes yesterday’s papers.

Not so on the Web.

Fighting the Negative Search Result

On the World Wide Web, let’s say a complaint website containing a negative comment about your business appears on the 1st page of Google just below or above your regular business website result. Yikes! What do you do?

You could hire an online reputation management company or learn to push back this negative review yourself.

Below are the basic steps that any online reputation management company takes to push the resulting negative website back to page 2, 3, 4 or 5 on Google.

First the company will review and modify pages in your website to be sure it is search engine friendly.

Secondly they will create and/or post to Blogs, Directories, Websites, Forums to help facilitate the ‘pushing back’ of the negative website reference in specific search results.

Helping Google to Fill The Cesspool

Today we have all these reputation companies, web developers, web writers, and SEO teams creating USELESS content and USELESS links to fight back against all these complaint websites. Even the complaint websites are getting in on this action and offering removal fees at up to $2400. There are even negative posts on competing complaint websites saying negative things about the other. I have even found postings of people complaining that they paid to have the posting removed and once removed another appeared the next day. Sounds suspicious?

My Suggestion

Google employees and it’s engineers can come up with a better way in serving up ‘Complaint Websites’ in it’s search results as follows;

a. Any complaint website that does not display the full name, email and phone of the person making the complaint should get pushed back in results. Or at least display an email that is tied to so real or high SERPs website, Blog or Forum where they are a member.

a. Any companies having a +A rating with the BBB should algorithmically negate or receive a push back against any complaints website.

I think this makes sense and sounds doable. I truly hope this posting reaches a Google decision maker who wants to see search queries cleaned up, more relevant and increasingly useful.

At this writing it is well worth mentioning that Yahoo and Bing do not rank these type of complaint websites as relevant in searches, not nearly as much as Google does. As a developer I believe this speaks to inherent flaws in Google assigning so much value to back links.

Like mom used to say; ‘If you don’t have anything nice to say about somebody, then say nothing at all’. Thanks, Mom.

In my previous position at another company we tried to use Hitwise to gather competitiive intelliginece, but didn’t have a whole lot of luck with their data/product. Our conclusion was the data was suspect & had holes in it. We quickly adbandoned the product & used the resources elsewhere. I wouldn’t trust anything their data suggested.

I believe Google still rules and is best no matter what. I think the only reason why Bing is even know off is because all Windows OS come standard with IE as your default browser and default settings with bing as search engine.

When I first started using Bing I really quite liked it. I especially liked its image search feature, which was far more impressive than Google image search. That is not really the case anymore since Google have made many refinements to their portal and their search engine. Google Instant is brilliant, updating results with each keystroke, image search layout has been improved, etc. etc.

So, it’s too close to call for me, except when you start talking about results. I would like to think that I could use Bing more and it is pretty good, but it just doesn’t bring back ANYWHERE NEAR the number of results that Google does. Google brings back an absolute mountain of rubbish that you have to sift through, which is a fair comment, but at least I know that what I am looking for is likely to be there somehwere. Bing just does not bring back enough results for me to be confident in using it, that I have covered my bases. It is far TOO selective.

I have several websites in the same genre with the largest containing over 1000 pages. I have Google Analytics installed and per Google