BING does a BINGO.

To some extent. Microsoft has released the beta version of BING, its search engine, aiming to deal with Google’s search market.

Though BING appear to be a lot more catchy and simple, users will still hesitate to discard Google for BING. BING surely has a long way to go. I hope it does not draw the same fate as that of CUIL. CUIL was a disaster. Touted as “the Google killer”, it butchered itself. CUIL’s results were far from matching that of Google’s.

Though it is ultimately difficult to replace Google as my homepage, it has caught my attention a little bit. I might try out bing when Google doesn’t respond to some searches properly. It has happened a lot of times in the recent past to me. With millions of new web pages added daily to the search results, it is increasingly becoming difficult for me to get the right answers. Google still is showing me results dated back to 2003 and 2004.

The image search in BING is better than Google or as good as it. The snippets in the web search too is cool. It has a fresh look and come on guys…lets give MS a chance. It has been trying out for a long time to counter Google without any clues.

There is normally one test which I do to know how good a search index is. I search for my blog items. I just type “aeonian blog” and the results in BING were surprisingly close to that of Google’s. That is cool. I shall give BING a shot from now on.