Microsoft Bing Making a Bang?

Written by Melanie
01 June 2009
Giggles

Bing or Bomb?

This is no in depth study at all... Just some quick thoughts about the new Microsoft Live Search engine BING!. They even have a rather pleasant and upbeat welcome letter attempting to explain the reasoning and direction... Without exposing much. Big surprise for Live.com users who are redirected.

Ok, so I'm no real Microsoft fan... But I have some screen shots and thoughts I want to share with you guys.

As you see below, the interface is rather inviting... Mousing over the balloons will give you trivia to search and guess the location of the scene.... Pretty neat. Ohhhhh, don't miss the icon in the lower right to install Microsoft Silverlight™ if you want to see other images --- UGH!

This is interesting.... Sitelinks?? Ermmm Sitelink search. Okay, thats pretty cool and useful. But is it for everyone? Or just Microsoft?

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Nope, Google has one too!

The relevancy and understanding of search terms seems to be hit or miss... We think this one is a hit. But Make sure you checkout that Microsoft is STILL using the WWW in pro-webs.net which is in fact NON canonical.... Matter of fact they have both www and non-www in 2 different SERPs..Next to each other

But this www page doesn't load for 2 years as the www is permanently redirected to the NON-WWW... Here check it http://www.pro-webs.net/ 301 redirects to http://pro-webs.net/.

So where the hell do you suppose they are get the cached page from?? ....

Good Question, Huh??

Ok moving on, the little pop up for the SERP's orange dot is neat, but does this give searchers enough info to stay the need for them to visit your site to get the answer?

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Not sure the Japanese version of the Zen Cart page is really relevant... You, know... Here in Ohio

Searching for Green Bananas produces mostly relative results.... Except maybe the #1 listing (apparently organic?) which is for a beach cottage community in the Bahamas....

The local results are ok.... In searching for sunny Mogadore, Ohio... way below the normal local flair... You get this. Yep, they dropped the ball on this... Google is way better here for certain.