Bing was fully launched earlier this week and is a replacement for Live Search. With this move, Microsoft intends to gain market share over Google. They call it a decision engine, rather than a search engine, as it is supposed to help users make decisions quicker than with a search engine.
I seriously doubt Bing will significantly increase its market share over the next few months, but since it’s going to be heavily advertised, I believe a fair share of web users will try it out. This makes me think of Google Chrome. I guess quite a lot of web users tried it out, but only a few adopted it. It still remains on the scene as it is Google’s web browser. Bing is Microsoft’s search engine… it must be good, somehow.
Bing offers a number of new functionalities and gadgets. I’m not too familiar with them yet, but if you want to know more, I suggest you read Wired’s article on the topic. It reviews the whole thing: Hands on with Microsoft’s New Search Engine: Bing, but no Boom. They think Bing hides its best features, which I think is right as I didn’t notice most of them the first time I tried it out. I like the pictures used as a background. They are changed every day, or even maybe more often. That’s a pretty clever way to make people come back. Anyway, it is definitely worth a try, even if it hasn’t indexed my blog yet!
