Bing Feedback
A lot of internet users have tried Bing since it was released by Microsoft in June 2009. There has been mixed reviews about Bing in comparison to Google, especially in terms of search results and result qualities.
We found a blind test where you can actually test to see which search engine you actually prefer. Whether it be Bing, Google, or Yahoo! Be sure to come back and post your results.
Please leave your feedback for Bing here.
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Hi bing team,
This is regarding all-hyphenated domain names. It is known that currently (-) hyphen in the domain names are considered as space separating keywords during search operations and results are displayed accordingly. But, considering the fact that domain names with all the possible keywords with and without (-) hyphens being already registered, it is either very expensive or impossible to acquire a decent domain name. My suggestion is if you can come up with a solution wherein a string of three or more individual letters separated by (-) hyphens will be considered as continuous letters for keyword parsing, it would open up a whole new choices of domain names and give a great impetus to the internet’s growth. Ex. d-o-m-a-i-n-n-a-m-e.com can be identified as domainname.com during search results. Of course, this will lead to lengthy domain names. But, we will be having many a choice, at least twice that of currently registered domain names ! This would be enough to take care of the domain names for another decade or two. You can think of some way out regarding trademark domain names with all-hyphenated like y-a-h-o-o.com, g-o-o-g-l-e.com, b-i-n-g.com etc., by including a disclaimer that they are not the official websites of the company. If you can manage to make the suggestion come true, it would enormously increase the choice of domain names and would be nothing short of a path-breaking trend in search engine as well as domain name industry. Let the future have some choice of domain names !
Thanking you in advance :)
Guys, I am a little picky here but I just want bing it to be better :)
I remember seeing a 22 minute windows phone 7 video on msdn through a link from some gadget review site and I had forgotten where it was from. But I remembered that the gadget site mentioned about msdn and 22 minutes.
When I tried to bing for “22 minute + msdn”, it did not return the relevant result but when I googled for “22 minute + msdn” i promptly returned what I was searching for as the very first result. It was great! Google guessed what I was searching for and it is probably based on trend that many recent web page es recently have the phrase {22 minute | msdn | technet | windows phone 7} together (or could be something else).
This is one aspect which really stops me from using Bing in scenarios where I want to search something based with scarcely available data.
I think Microsoft built a mistyped web address to take me to “bing”
I use Verizon DSL, but since Microsoft added “updates” to my IE.
A mis type web address takes me to a bing page.
(I remove bing as a search engine and have only goggle.)
Here’s MS hiding code to give them a market advantage.
I am a MS Partner and I hate them.
They are money grubbing, power hungry pigs!
Hi! Pitiable klooper in wound of my english jer, buti totally willing re respond .
Well, I’ll never use Bing for sure—-just because all day long there’s been a damned popup for it on my puter on different webpages—-way too friggin annoying for me to have any respect for it or want to investigate it.
1) As a developer using microsoft technologies i still tend to prefer google as the search engine :-( and the primary reason is because i use advance search operators to find stuff + – AND OR’s etc. However, google typically returns items in the header text of the search results and highlights the matches…making it easier for me to spot my requirements.
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Need more options in the intellisense (in comparison with google)
When I searched on the term General CADD, I quickly found a pirate software site selling my company’s program for a token price. I don’t appreciate this and I don’t think you would like them selling Windows for a token price through your search engine. Can you exclude the pirate software sites from your search engine?
Jim,
In your situation I would suggest that you undergo the proper legal means to prosecute the pirate software site. We at Bing Develop does not have the means to change the search results, because we are not in anyways affiliated with Bing or Microsoft Corporations.
It would be best to contact Bing or Microsoft with your specific request directly. I would recommend that you start with this link http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/cu_inventory
In any case, I would still recommend you to under go the proper legal procedures and speak to a legal adviser.
Also, I like to point out that on Bing your site is still the first listing in the result page. I don’t think they were aware that the software of the other site were a pirate version. The other site simply had a good SEO and it is relevant to your search case, however, I am very confident that if you inform Bing & Microsoft, they will take the proper procedures to assist your case.
A small website showed up in Bing search results about 2 weeks ago. Because I found some of the rankings odd and the results sometimes inconsistent (some similar to “Calvin” results #3), I sent some feedback via feedback.discoverbing.com.
Two weeks later, the website does not show up in the search results anymore. Completely gone, eliminated. Nothing was changed to the site during that time. The feedback was formulated in a critical but polite way. Conclusion : is it dangerous to critize Bing ?
Piet, in this case what happens is mostly likely that the website is newly developed on an old domain.
When a webmaster purchases or start to developing a new web domain, the search engines, either Bing, yahoo, or google, will initially index the website with very high search engine result page
(SERP) rankings.
however, after several weeks, when the search engine begin to index again, the ranking usually drops because lack of either back links, search engine optimization techniques, and lack of new contents.
generally, you want to have a website that has periodic new/fresh contents
Another point to make is that Bing has a very strong filter for search results.
For example, when you search “Bing” on bing.com you will only get results. all other results are filtered. but if google “bing” you will get a page full of results.
So far what I notice is that Google is friendly with newly developed contents. When we first launch Bing Develop, google indexed our website within days. Bing was a little bit slower to index.
On google, our page have already top page ranks with our targeted keywords. however on Bing we where not able to achieve the same results. mainly because Bing gives websites with more history higher ranking. which in my opinion is not a bad idea. so our rankings on being will take time to go up.
So, when does Europe (Belgium) has some functionality like the USA?
We are tired of getting placed behind…
Walter, it is very unfortunate that the full functionality of Bing is not made available to Belgium. The main reason behind this decision is probably due to European legal issues, network functionality, and back end service integration. We, at Bingdevelop, don’t know exactly when these features will be available, but we will start asking questions and the answer for you as soon as possible.
You can always change you Bing setting. Go to Bing.com, change your country setting (top right corner) to United States and you will have full access to Bing features.
I got more ads on BING than I wanted and were unrelated to my search and I’m not in love with Google and I hate yahoo, but Google still gives me what I want, with the non related items on the bottom of the page.
It would be nice if someone made something like Google has gotten closest to with a simple search, with a menu on the side that can narrow by some key words from the search already listed from the search or something like that. We hate typing more in searches or changeing words in the search
I tried the comparison and got Google 3 out of 5 and Bing could find anything in one of my searches and Yahoo did the same on another.
I’m sure you will be number one someday but the pages will be full of spam & ads, so I’ll stick to Google for now. Just Like your ad on this page for Google Chrome & Full Sail Univ. What the heck is that, a preview of whats to come?
Please stop those darn comercials we get! We get your there! Anyone with a computer knows it now. Use the money to feed the homeless… Gezzz
Jonathan,
Jonathan, thank you for your comments. Bing might appear to have more ads because of the way it is designed.
I did a quick test comparing Bing & Google
Car -Bing 5 ads/Google 5 ads
Money -Bing 7 ads/Google 8 ads
Christmas -Bing 3 ads/Google 1 ad
The results from my sample test is not enough to say which search engine puts on more ad. You maybe right or maybe because we are all accustomed to Google’s layout that we unconsciously block out the ads through our viewing habits.
In terms of the ads that you saw on this page, we decided it to place it in an attempt to recover our monthly hosting cost.
We write articles at BingDevelop because we are interested in the development of the Bing search engine. Our goal is not to profit from this site. I have a full time job at a computer hardware company and I run my personal company, Reach Connection Solutions Inc., as a part-time gig. I am devoting my time on this site because of personal interest.
Anyways, thanks a lot for your feedback and in the future we will write more articles about Google, Yahoo, Cuil, and Wolfram Alpha with a neutral perspective.
The blind test I introduced will produce results that varies depending on your search query. I personally won’t judge whether Bing is better than Google or if Google is better than Bing. Different people have different preferences. Here is what I think why Bing is better.
-Video previews
-Local listings
-Cash back program
-Related searches
-Categorized searches
Result #2:
Wanted: wanted to know what exactly !/bash/sh does
Key seached: what does !/bin/sh do
voted for: Google
The first result of Google and Bing, which is the one solved my problem, is the same. But I still voted for Google somehow.
Result #3:
Wanted: http://www.bingdevelop.com
Key searched: bingdevelop
voted for: Google
This is an interesting one.
Yahoo only gave out two results which are “Microsoft Bing” on webpronews.com and “Video: Introducing Bing” on techcrunch.com.
Bing gave out 5 results. The first one is what I wanted, which is bingdevelop.com. The second one is facebook.com/Bing. The second and third one are the same as Yahoo’s, and the last one is “Bing vs Google vs Yahoo” on a random site.
GOOGLE, which showed 8 results (I’m sure there are more in the next page), gave THREE results related to bingdevelop.com.
- The first one is bingdevelop.com.
- The second one is Bing Feedback on bingdevelop.com/feedback.This is more convenient for me.
- And the third one is “Yang Weng (bingdevelop) on Twitter” on twitter.com/bingdevelop. Google showed your name!
Clearly, Google kicked their *sses.
and all the results Bing provided are related to the word “Calvin”, no signs of “Calvik” at all. It thought I mistyped the word.
I wanted to check something on Air Canada homepage. So I searched “ac” on google.ca, and the homepage of Air Canada was the first result that came up. How convenient.
Then I searched “ac” on Bing with the option “only from Canada” checked. The first result I got was “AC-Cubed 2007 – HOME”, which is a annual anime convention in Ottawa, and I couldn’t find the homepage of Air Canada in the first 10 pages of results.
Calvin, when I searched for AC on google, the first result was a wikipedia article on Alternating Current and Air Canada was the 2nd result. When I bing, the same article came up as well, however Air Canada did not show up.
When you select your preference to view results from Canada only, AC-Cubed 2007 – Home is indeed the result.
However, if you search for “Air Canada” both bing & google will produce the same results, but if you try it on Bing, you will see related search items on the side bar, as well your search results are put into different categories.
I agree with you on the fact that Bing is not Google, but Bing is different because of its unique features.
I this case I think AC can be an acronym for many things, and Google just happen to interpret it as Air Canada, I am certain in other search cases the result will be different. In any case, everyone should spend some time on Bing and discover the features themselves.
Hi BingDevelop,
On my browser, Air Canada is the first result that came up. I guess it’s because of the difference in preferences.
I still prefer Google, and it’s very difficult for Bing to take over Google’s position in my preference. I’m not saying which one is better or which one is worse,I’m just too used to use Google. Google has been my homepage for more than 4 years, and using a different homepage really bothers me.
I have used Bing for a couple of times now. Since Bing is right on the top of IE, “Bing it” is just a lot faster than opening a new tab and “Googe it”. The case of searching “ac” is the second time that happned to me. I don’t remember what I searched on the the first time, but Bing just gave a completely different and wrong answer.
There are a couple of greate sites that offer “Search Google and Bing at the same time”. Are you trying to make something like that and put it under this tab or getting someone else’s?
Hey BingDevelop
“I agree with you on the fact that Bing is not Google, but Bing is different because of its unique features. ”
Yes Bing is a decision engine, and decides that AC is to mean “AC-Cubed 2007 – Home” in Canada, a smart decision!!
But Google is a search engine, and its results to “homepage of Air Canada”…
BingDevelop, can you see the difference? One is bad-decision and the other is very relevant and good search result. In any area making decision with very little knowledge is dangerous.
Beside please don’t try to defend Bing, always the customer is right, that attitude is what makes MS behind the game.
You are absolutely right. Bing needs a lot improvements and it is still playing catch up to google.
Bing is definitely not a par with Google in terms of search results 100%. However it is competitive because of things like Cashback program & the wall paper.
We are not trying to defend Bing and speak badly about Google. Google is no doubt King of Search. It is fast and it has a lot market advantages in market. It has a great engine, a strong presence on the Internet, and we even use Google ads because Microsoft adCenter is only available in the U.S.
Thanks a lot for your feedback and contribution to the discussion.
To see if you really like bing or google, here is blind test
http://blindsearch.fejus.com
-it provides 3 search engine results, Google, Yahoo, Bing
-you dont find out which one you like the best until you click to vote for your favor search engine
Please post your results.
Result #1:
Wanted: http://www.calvik.com
Key searched: calvik
voted for: Google
Both Google and Yahoo gave http://www.calvik.com as the first result. Bing gave “Calvin College” http://www.calvin.edu as the first result.