Five Reasons Why Bing Will Never Succeed
I’m sure you’ve all heard about the hype of the new search engine by Microsoft in the last few days. Bing, has made quite the surprise entrance into the search engine market, already passing Yahoo as the number two search engine. However, I sincerely believe that It won’t last. I just don’t think that Microsoft can do a good job at sustaining an attractive and usable search engine. I honestly believe that they’re wasting their time and money on search and should really just stick to developing operating systems and software.
All of this has lead my to creating a top 5 list on why Bing isn’t likely to succeed in the search industry.
- It’s not simple enough- Although Bing has improved on it’s arrangement of results Google’s interface is still much simpler in design and indexing of websites. Their pages are still a bit to jerky in my opinion. I still feel that there’s just to much clutter with Bing and that they really need to tone down the graphics.
- It’s too late- Google has already taken over 80% of the search engine market share. It’s going to take years if Bing wants to even make a dent on Google’s empire.
- I’m Still saying “Just Google it”- I might consider switching to Bing once everyone who uses the Internet says “Bing it,” but I highly doubt that will happen anytime soon.
- Their search engine is to media intensive- It takes forever for Bing to load on my computer. All of their “natural” pictures and video thumbnails are just to much for my PC to take. Google uses plain text and their pages load extremely quickly.
- I can’t find my website- Last time I checked, in Bing I only found one result. This is in comparison to Google where I can find every single page on my website. If Bing wants to gain more attention from Webmasters and Web Developers they’re going to have to do a way better job in regards to indexing websites.
I’d like to know what you guys think….. Do you think a majority of Internet users are going to switch to this new search engine? How do you think Google is going to react to this new creation? Feel free to leave your comments and opinions below.
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Bing will never succeed because we all know what a search page will look like if they do!
Bing will never succeed until I no longer need to google to find answers to questions that are on microsoft.com – I actually check this about 1 a month when the top (correct) answer on google takes me to a microsoft site. I go to live/bing/microsoft and type in the exact same keywords and see where it takes me, rarely does it find the correct answer even though it’s on their site?
i have been evaluating the search results of Microsoft Bing compared to Google and they are comparable. Bing gives almost the same relevant search results just like Google.
Microsoft can never compete with Google because Microsoft has no mission and no purpose aside from making an extra buck.
It may sound silly, but Google actually puts the interests of its users first. That’s why from the very beginning they didn’t allow nonsense on their website like banner ads and other money making features that are incredibly annoying. It’s exactly the opposite sort of philosophy over at Microsoft that inspired the creation of new file formats with the release of MS Office 2007 that left millions of its own PAYING users facing terrible compatibility issues. Their thinking was that if they created new formats to prevent Open Office and iWork users from opening MS Office files, they would be forced to bow before them and go out and purchase a $160 copy of MS office. That sort of mentality is deeply ingrained in Microsoft.
The next reason that Microsoft can’t compete with Google is because Google doesn’t settle for being the best.
A lot of people have forgotten, but Microsoft was basically founded in an act of theft. Every single “innovative” thing about the first Windows operating system, including the use of a mouse, was taken from Apple. That is pretty consistent with how they operate, and other examples include Internet Explorer, every version of Windows, and now Bing (you can actually do a search in both of them at the same time and see that they basically get the same results, meaning Bing is nothing but a copy).
That sort of crap may have worked 30 years ago, but it isn’t going to work now. People have a level of access to information (thanks mostly to Google) that was unthinkable just ten years ago. This means that people are going to know if one company has a better product than another, and also that any new product coming out of Microsoft is just going to be an old idea taken from another company and marked up in price or pizazz. This is why so many young people are ditching Windows PCs for iMacs and MacBooks and why we will stick with innovative companies like Apple or Google over a slow-to-react copy-cat like Microsoft.
I do realize btw that the Apple OS has taken a lot of ideas and resources from Linux, and that Google built off of the foundations of older search engines, but both of them actually innovated on what they took.
So in summary, Bing will fail because it is a product of Microsoft, and Microsoft is still functioning on a pre-2000 philosophy and business model.
I agree with you in #4 and #5 but not in #2 and #3. I believe that its never too late for a new competitor to rise as a Search Engine. We may be from the Google generation, but maybe our kids or grand kids will be the bing generation.
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I think it is still early days to assess bing properly. When it came out I bookmarked it and put on the drop down options on my browswer’s search bar. Every now and then when I get weird results from google, I use bing for a second opinion.
I don’t use it as my primary search engine but it’s good to know that there is a backup if I don’t find what I need quick.
When I read about bing, I pretty much believed everything given to me. As naive as this may be, it does give me a sense of assurance that their links are relevant.
In summary, it’s useful now that there are now, two very good search engines. For me it’s not like coke or pepsi where you can’t drink both at once. I can use both these engines for my benefit and over time decide which one keeps giving me the good stuff.
Isn’t it ironic how when google first came on the scene everybody warmed to it as a breath of fresh air and in order to become less MS dependent? Nowadays, we want to free ourselves from google a bit.
To MS’ advantage, all hotmail users will be confronted with a bing seach option after logging out of every mail session.