Just wanted to share with you a funny search I did on the new Bing search engine.
While developing code for tracking SERPs on Bing I tried monitoring bing.com website to see how it is ranked. The most obvious search string I could think of was “search engine”, so here is what I got:
First I thought I had something wrong with the implementation, but no, Bing thinks that Bing is not in the top 200 results for a “search engine” (:
No matter how you look at this, seems Microsoft needs to do some work on their search engine.
The first “search engine” Bing recommends is dogpile, then comes Ask & AltaVista. Google is in the 17th position and Yahoo at the 9th.
Nice to notice but you should try the same for Google.com.
I tried search engine and found following:
first news results then:
#1 dogpile
#2 altavista
#3 bing
#4 google.co.uk
#5 ask
#10 google.com
Funny or not ?
Paul
Comment by Paul — July 30, 2009 @ 7:19 am
Oh, that is amazing!
Can’t figure this one. Maybe they need to do some SEO(:
Comment by admin — July 30, 2009 @ 7:37 am
Uhhmmm…Microsoft has specifically said it’s not a “search engine” it’s a “decision engine”. Try typing in “decision engine”.
Listen to the marketing folks.
Comment by Wes Linda — September 11, 2009 @ 11:33 am