Bing FAIL
Bing FAIL: This will be a short post, like the headline already suggests. You know, after the disastrous performance of Wolfram Alpha which was falsely hailed as Google competition I’m not really in the mood to rant again. I will just show you one example.
Bing simply doesn’t work.
The first thing I do to test a new search engine is always some vanity searches as in these cases I simply know what the most relevant results are. So I searched for SEO 2.0 on Bing. Guess what?
SEO 2.0 was nowhere to be found on Bing using the phrase SEO 2.0
In Google this blog is at #1 and #2 for SEO 2.0 but on Bing it’s not in the top 50. You get a lot of crap results instead mixed with some good ones but the most important pages are nowhere to be found.
So it’s not that I was banned on Bing or something. You have to search for “SEO 2.0” using quotes to find the SEO 2.0 blog. So Bing knows that this page exists but assigns a completely wrong authority to it. In contrast you’ll find a page offering
Guaranteed seo 2.0 first page rank top ten placement and ranking in …
at #1 for SEO 2.0 – So not a authority blog with regular postings about SEO 2.0 or in fact the resource that popularized SEO 2.0 ranks but a second rate static page which was optimized on page for a whole group of random SEO related keywords.
What more can I say? I’m not a Google fan boy but Bing is a huge FAIL. It’s as simple as that.
Update January 30th, 2013: I now rank at #1 for [SEO 2.0] on Bing. So they fixed their algorithm apparently.
Furthermore, Bing is an acronym for “But….it’s not Google!”
When I got word on Bing, wasn’t sure WHAT to expect….now see I missed absolutely, NOTHING!
Cheers :)
well I’m in very similar positions on G and B for 3 different sites and 2 different sets of keywords.
For one of those sites I can see that Bing has removed what I consider the garbage posts and left only those that really deserve it.
Rhys: So what? Are you a bot?
Debbie: I was really disappointed, hoped they would integrate Powerset to some visible extent. Instead it’s crap.
McLaughlin: Then you’re obviously lucky. I checked with other sites on other servers as well.
Or do you want to suggest that my my SEO 2.0 blog and community consist of “garbage posts”?
I searched for myself on BING. And my own blog didn’t appear. Another waste of time from Microsoft. What’s the point of building a better Google? Have they not heard about the better mouse trap? it doesn’t exist.
The concept of “google killers” reminds me of the computer games industry. The next big thing is normally a failure, its the ones that fly under the radar you have to watch out for.
Uhh Search again my friend your number three… don’t forget the service is in beta till next week…I think this article is a little full of yourself.. Just because the engine doesn’t index like Google. there fore its no good doesn’t sound like a fair argument to me.
Shouldn’t be, wasn’t the last time I checked. What makes you say that? :)
So are you deliberately being deceptive or are you just a MS hater?
Searching on bing for seo 2.0 without quotes results in SEO 2.0 SEO BLOG (seo2.0.onreact.com) at the #3 spot.
If you don’t like Bing or Microsoft or whatever, fine. But please be fair.
Thanks for the feedback people. Yes indeed I deliberately hate Microsoft and falsify screenshots using my advanced Photoshop skills.
Or, more aptly, Bing fixed it. I get both the SEO 2.0 blog (indeed at #3) and the Mixx group on the first page.
Nonetheless #1 is still crap. Also #2 does not deserve it either. #8, the SEO 2.0 Digital Asset Optimization definition could be at one, as it was there before I started this blog and is probably the best definition written thus far.
My other German blog still can’t be found though.
Few systems are amazing at the start, they all need time to improve and develop remember.
I’ve tried Bing a few times now after seeing other Bloggers rave about it, but so far I’ve only found the service slow and the results poor.
I also did the “vanity test” and found that we only got on to page 2 with Bing, which may have clouded my judgement of it!!
I did a post on our blog the other day about the new searches. Let’s be honest – new searches are always going to struggle now that Google has such a hold of the population, especially as to be different they have to try something new which invariiably will upset some users.
In my opinion, Bing is ok. But that’s it. It really doesn’t offer anything particular new. Although Wolfram and Cuil have gone down the drain a bit I do think they are much more innovative and interesting than Bing. It will be interesting to see how it develops, but for me Bing lacks any kind of X-Factor.
I think it’s a little bit too early to say Bing is a failure. After all they just started. let’s give a little bit more time for it to develop.
I agree with domjoel. Google did not gain fame overnight. So Bing must also be going through the same thing. Let us wait and see.
The sites always ranked a bit differently on Google, Yahoo and MSN. Most of us just care about the Google rankings so build our sites the Google way, use the nofollow tag the Google way..overall we just concentrate on getting to the top on Google so no wonder our sites rank well on Google and SEO 2.0 is at #1 at Google too!
Now if that doesn’t happen on a new search engine – BING (new version of MSN Live Search basically), doesn’t mean its a fail and doesn’t work. Yeah we know you are cool and you know your stuff but this post was totally uncool dude! You gotta be patient and see if really paid off -you are at #3 now aren’t you? :) I guess its time to take this post down as it just looks like an outburst of the frustration filling you up! MSN rankings were always screwed up and will be but at least give them a chance to fix their act :)
I too tried to use Bing and couldn’t. The truth is that Google is the most used search engine because it is the BEST.
The search engine game is not about innovating, it’s about giving the results that people want.
And Bing fails miserably at that.
Bing isn’t filling a need.The number one problem that Bing faces is that people just aren’t frustrated with Google.
My website is ranked quite highly in BING. But i am getting zero traffic. It does not matter how it ranks websites if nobody is ever using it.
Too bad, I love their interface though… But I do get good searches at my first try of Bing.
I’ve read somewhere before, I forgot the blog/site (sorry), that Bing allows direct watching of video on its SERP without storing a history of the link/site. At first I didn’t care but when I read that it’s not good for children because they can easily watch adult movies! Even if parents block adult sites, kids can still watch it using Bing’s SERP. Is this true? I have not seen it (yet)…
No doubt Google is #1 search engine. To snatch the #1 position Microsoft has to go miles. Bing is still in beta version and they are working on it. All we can say at this juncture is wait and watch
why does this not surprise me? microsoft’s attempt at trying to take marketshare away from google is going to be another waste of $$. for me, it’s google all the way…
What, you’re expecting Microsoft to be experts in panda anatomy now? :-)
I kid; that’s pretty funny.
(BTW, anyone else have problems with things like arrow keys, home/end, and pasting not working in the text box here? It used to work for me, but then stopped a few weeks ago. It only fails in Firefox (but does so with FF on both Linux and Windows); Opera (again on Windows and Linux I’m pretty sure) works, as does IE.
I just searched bing and seo blog search appears fine. I think passing judgement on an evolving product is premature. You can argue that they fixed their links seeing this blog or you can argue that they are constantly tweeking their serch result algorithm to improve.. either ways I see bing as a great product. I am personnaly very happy with bing, its results and layout. Google news is still better though.
Bing is vulnerable, new and just too far away from being a close competitor to Google. Its results are not just irrelevant but also crappy.
I have noticed Bing is picky about *everything*.
If you do anything bad from website to links you will score low.
But if you do everything right you get ranked high. They have a weird algorythm.
Bing sure is a confusion on our part trusting this new software.
It sure is a proof trusting the best and been on the market media for so long which is google.!
We trust you! Bing please enhance lol
Hi Tad
I hope the failure of a vanity search was not what drove your opinion of the Bing search results!
From my own perspective, I quite like the fact that Bing ranks so differently to Google. If we got exactly the same rankings back, it would be pointless to have Bing and Google and Yahoo!
But I guess my own usage of Bing (less than 5% of my searches) is indication that it doesn’t really help me find the things I’m looking for in the way I’m used to.
Bing sucks I dont like it very much.
i think that Bing is not as good as Google. Google would still index new websites faster than Bing. Microsoft would still need a lot of catching to do with GoogleBot.
I use both Bing and Google search engine and i dont see much difference in their search results. I use google for searching hard to find academic topics and Bing for general search.
There are less people use bing, but i prefer bing to yahoo.
BING IS HORRIBLE!! The visual search doesn’t even come up like in the commercials. Google is much, much better. I have no idea what microsoft was thinking!!
That is why I only use Google.
LOL. Bing never gets the right display of search results.
I also only use google and not Bing/Yahoo. But, what do you think Bing’s search has got any better, especially since Yahoo’s search is powered by Bing.
What’s Bing?
Kidding aside, I don’t use it. You already nailed it, BING just plainly sucks. No doubt about it. Google is infinitely better, heck Yahoo! search is even better than Bing. That’s saying something.