Matt Cutts Tweets About Bing

Everybody’s talking about Bing today since the Microsoft’s new search engine became unexpectedly available on a widescale. That includes Google, and more specifically Matt Cutts.

An interesting conversation took place on Twitter today between Cutts and Betsy of the Bing account. Cutts was apparently doing a little ego searching on Bing and does not appear entirely impressed with the results. SEO Services Group has transcribed the conversation:

Matt Cutts: Congrats to @bing on the launch! Sad to see this not-so-relevant result at #4 for [matt cutts] though: http://bit.ly/4a8Q1Y

Bing: @mattcutts anytime you want to give feedback to @bing, we’re here. I’m sitting with the devs at present. ^betsy

Bing: @mattcutts I know you are disappointed in ego search stuff tonight w/ @bing, but try ‘mtv movie awards 2009′ and see what you get. ^ba

Matt Cutts: Ouch. The #5 Bing result for [matt cutts] is spammy too: http://bit.ly/B2r5F It’s a YouTube->WordPress autogenerated blog.

Matt Cutts: @bing okay. First web result was from 2008 instead of 2009, even with 2009 in query: http://bit.ly/SToK1 . Google nails it.

Matt Cutts: @bing but doesn’t it bother you that [mtv movie awards] on Google gives great news results and 2009 url, but w/Bing I only see 2008, 2007, ?

Bing: @mattcutts Uh – the first answer folks see is the news answer, not what you circled. Apparently twilight won. ^ba

Matt Cutts: @bing by the way, Twilight did rock. I’m not ashamed to say it–glittery vampires rule!!

That’s about it for the conversation between the two (so far), but Cutts referenced that number 4 result again later:

To me, this just looks like Cutts stepping up to market Google in the wake of Bing’s launch. Bing’s getting a lot of attention right now, and it only makes sense that Google would want to make sure they don’t go thinking its better than their own search engine. It’s about protecting the brand.

Whether this is Matt’s intention or not, Cutts pointing out shortcomings in Bing’s search results is going to resonate throughout the industry. He is practically the posterboy for Google, at least among the search and tech savvy crowd. A lot of people follow Matt Cutts. A lot of people hang nearly everything on what he has to say (search-wise).

Cutts has shed some light on some issues with Bing though. It’s a little early to burn the search engine at the stake. After all, it’s not even supposed to be launched yet, but after trying an ego search for myself (not something I performed in my first Bing runthrough), I am also much happier with Google’s results. By the way, here are some more Bing findings.

What are your thoughts on Bing? How do you like the search engine’s results compared to Google’s? Share your thoughts.

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March 27, 2012 at 5:53 am

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palrate
November 6, 2009 at 10:56 am

Bing’s search results is going to resonate throughout the industry.

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Guest
June 22, 2009 at 12:57 pm

He likes Twilight. That basically sums him up for me, and makes him not worth paying attention to.

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Owen Gurry
June 10, 2009 at 5:51 am

Bing is good for me so far – my sites are slightly higher in bing than google for keyterms I’ve optimize for (http://www.jamtracksforguitar.com for example).

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Tom
June 6, 2009 at 4:44 pm

Its funny how scared the googlers like Matt are when they see a better product. They’ve been sitting on their asses for the last 4 years on search and wasting too much time on Android and Gmail trying to make more money.
In terms of relevance in basic text searches both bing and google do better on some searches but for the most part the results are the same. However Bing blows google out of the water with its interface(preview), travel, shopping, image and video searches. So I am switching over to bing. Also like their cool front page design that shows interesting stuff to learn about all the time from across the world.
Hasta la vista Goobies. Lets hope Microsoft doesnt let up.

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Router Bits
June 5, 2009 at 8:09 am

The BING is getting some BLING… but Google is still going to be KING!

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Patrick McMurray
June 4, 2009 at 7:48 pm

Copywriting and protectionism is a western culture, it’s closed, what gain is there through not cooperating.

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Guest
June 3, 2009 at 8:37 pm

This is definitely overkill. Bing is OK, but still has a ways to go before having a chance at fighting Google

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  Guest
  June 3, 2009 at 10:51 pm
  
  The users will decide
  
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Australian Online Bookshop
June 3, 2009 at 6:07 pm

After having a play around with Bing for a little while I’m of the opinion that they still have a lot of work to do regarding the relevence of their search results. On one common keyword search you have to wait until page three to get an exact match for the search terms. the results are too obscure.

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  loislanemiami
  June 4, 2009 at 5:36 pm
  
  I agree with the “Relevance” post.
  
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Guest
June 3, 2009 at 4:02 pm

I mean really………

I personally think this is all overkill. I mean how many variations of the same thing do you need for nearly the same results?

Its like telling a class full of 5 year olds to go to the same coat room to look for the same red rain coat with the words “rain coat” on it and then telling them they can only look in the right corner of the coat room.

Are we trying to make things better or are we just bored?

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Matt Cutt Down
June 3, 2009 at 11:25 am

It’s so bad when Matt Cutts simply cuts down other companies to make himself (Google) look good.

I cannot begin to tell you how much spam I come across in Google every hour of the day.

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Joseph Ratliff
June 3, 2009 at 10:45 am

Is any search ever perfect (even from Big G)?

It’s really too early to tell if Bing will be a viable competitor for G. Right now, I am sure they are looking for feedback so they can improve.

I remember Google’s first days as a search engine, they were pretty awful actually. But G grew up and developed into the engine it is now…and that’s good for some people, and not so good for others.

Bing, if it does things correctly, will follow a similar path.

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Pattrick Lewis
June 3, 2009 at 9:24 am

Seriously??? You’re going to declare Bing dead because your site got trumped by a page three result? I’m not declaring Bing a winner by any means. It’s too early. But at least keep some perspective.

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suNNy
June 3, 2009 at 7:34 am

…, Mr. Google Perfect. Google’s results are not always that great either.
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