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Post your comments for Bing vs. Google vs. Yahoo: Feature Smackdown here

[bbvammy]

Let me see.

I will Google it?

I will Yahoo it?

or

I will Bing it?

I think I like " I will Bing it"

Thank you Microsoft. ]:)

[Grr8008]

I want to Bing!

[charlesRovira]

Oh crap.
Who wrote the headline?
Fire them (a line that bad can only issue from the cloaca of a committee.)
This is the kind of "competition" that's not really any competition.
Feature-itis is Microsoft's area of expertise and their almost exclusive domain.
But I'd venture that Google's not quaking in their boots right now.
Google's front page will remain just as clean looking, while "bing" is going to be one more detail to lose track of on Microsoft's front page.
As for actually 'binging' for information...
Its from Microsoft. They take three whacks at everything, before buying or bullying the competition.
Too bad they can't own everything, but they can't.

[mediumman]

Bing looks pretty.. but Google gets the job done. I'll take brains over Bing any day of the week.. As for Yahoo.. who cares!

[2dig2dug]

What this feature list doesn't include is the speed at which you can access these sites. Google has a super-clean interface because 1. It's simple and most importantly 2. IT LOADS REALLY FAST.
You think Grandmas who are still using dial-up connection are going to use Bing? Being pretty, having a site loaded down with flash and html will take it the extra seconds to load that will cost the attention span of the internet users.

[kazookid]

All i keep thinking is BING>BONG, what a name, geeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[ushere]

they missed the 'l'. surely it should be 'bling'?

[Imboden]

Did I miss something, or did you miss the most important feature of all, Web search?

[Californian]

Wow what a crappy methodology. Sorry for sounding (or, rather, being) insulting, but really, one search test per? There are millions of searches a day, and this test is skewed in that sense. Furthermore, we all like something shiny and new for a while, but then we realize we have to click a million "refinements" to get a good search. I, for one, would rather have a fast, accurate search experience (as 2dig2dug pointed out) than a crappy one that looks "pretty". It may merely be my minimalist preferences, but the cheesy pictures on live/bing (ushere is right, it should be "bling": that would be epic) are quite annoying whenever I (frequently) try to discover the strengths of each search engine by doing my normal searches.
I'm glad you've chosen your favorite, Mr. Spring, but just because it is shiny, new, and rhymes with your name really doesn't make it better. Just like windows (which I, admittedly, use), microsoft has lost focus of the real product (search in this case), and development thereof, in favor of eye candy.
Hopefully I won't "insert foot" when I try it next week!

[manojlds]

" we all like something shiny and new for a while"

I think many people like to stay with something that they are used to ( Google, Windows, etc.) than try something new ( Bing, Linux, etc.)
Be it laziness or fear or anything else in between, more people tend to stay with something they have used than try something new.

[ushere]

very true indeed.....

i really, really wanted to try linux, but found that i had endless (insoluble) problems with audio on both a laptop and a pc. i have no doubt that i'll give bling a whirl, but at the first sign of trouble (ad's, sales listing higher than info), i'll bail out to what i know - google.

i'm also waiting on wolfram alpha, though i'm not holding too much hope for use as a general style browser....

[unscum]

I've been using live.com for some time. It's a shame Microsoft didn't promote it as much as they should have because it is an awesome product. I love their video preview function and their 3D mapping data is superior to that of google.

[Californian]

Microsoft is planning to do an 80 to 100 million dollar ad campaign to convince people to try it. It won't become very much bigger than Live is now, and the increase in market share will come from Yahoo, not Google. I hate to make this analogy, but it is fairly accurate: Chrome's 2% is mostly (if not entirely) from Firefox's market share. On an not-very-related topic, it is interesting to note the similarity in percentages for search engines and browsers (safari's is similar to lives, yahoo and firefox, ie and Google).
I hope that people will try bing out so that they realize how much they appreciate the speed and simplicity of Google, but I suppose it doesn't much matter whether or not they do because they will come back to Google regardless, (as you said) be it from habit or subconscious preference.

[Californian]

First, don't worry, they're going to promote bing. Secondly, that video thing is annoying as heck: I can't leave my mouse anywhere or I start hearing annoying sounds and think I'm hearing things. Oh, and do you mean 3D models, like those in Google Earth's new tourshttp://google-latlon...th-gallery.html? The rest of live's map navigation sucks, imo.

[Californian]

Alpha is already out. I haven't found any uses for it myself, at least serious ones. Look up "dumb" on it and look at the "synonym network" it gives. That's messed up!

[Evildave]

Kind of pretentious, really.

As usual, Microsoft catalogs a long list of 'features', has a bunch of contractors hack up half-baked versions of them, then claims their 'features' are a reality against established search engines, including Yahoo, whom Microsoft was DESPERATE to purchase only a few months ago. Yeah, their 'bung' is really gonna measure up to real use.

It will always look good if you compare screen shots and marketing. That's all Microsoft cares about. No substance at all.

They can't even get people INSIDE Microsoft to use their own search engine, but what the heck, they're gonna spend a few hundred million dollars advertising their poo gas, trying to get other people to snif it.

[cronwall]

Google Wave!!!
Google Wave will beat Microsoft and Yahoo.

[skicrazer]

I really don't use these services, except for maps, which I'll admit, Google has it. But, I use mapquest anyway because I don't like how Google displays their maps. I use Yahoo for all my searches, mostly due to the automatic, as in every time, (what flag that needs to be checked for every search?) search suggestions after I've typed in only a few characters. That definitely helps in the cases when I'm not sure of the spelling.

[Californian]

Suggestions have helped me a lot. I get mine from Chrome's Omnibox usually, but Google has recently improved the one within search and on their homepage http://googlesystem....le-suggest.html. Perhaps you should try Google again!