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Comments (4)
It's all about the Google gap!!! =)
(more on Google Gap soon at SearchCowboys)
Tue 2 Jun 2009, 10:16
Interesting. But important to note that this trustworthiness has come from the quality of its results in the first place (particularly when it first came on the scene and was miles better than any other search engine). But the way they've established themselves in peoples' lives the only way someone will compete will be (a) by coming up with a genuinely revolutionary improvement in results, and (b) if google's results start becoming noticeably poor. Bing just ain't gonna do it!
Tue 2 Jun 2009, 10:24
So Bing really do have their work cut out for them, people will use Google regardless of what the results are lol, so is it a case of pure eye candy then which Bing has quite a bit of
Tue 2 Jun 2009, 11:18
> Google can only beat themselves...
And they do such a nice job on that! LOL
Tue 2 Jun 2009, 11:21