Bing vs. Google

Last week, I thought it would be interesting to see what stress, if any, MJ’s streaming funeral would have on the global internet infrastructure. However, since I created those blogs in two parts, they weren’t well received by Professor B (in fact, I may not even get credit for them). So, I’m starting over with a new concept this week; however, I’m running out of ideas so this blog may be rather boring.

I was trolling CNN.com’s Videos in Technology and watched a video discussing the latest offerings from Microsoft and Google. One of the representative techies, Ben Parr, from Mashable.com stated that a new report suggested that Bing was bigger than Digg, Twitter, and CNN.com? (CNN.com….REALLY??) Having only been introduced a few weeks ago, more than 50 million people had visited the site. With those kinds of numbers, I thought it best that I see what all the hype was about.

First, I Google’d Bing (so wrong, I know) and came across http://www.decisionengine.com/Default.html. This site offered a tour through the new features of Bing, which is a decision engine. A decision engine is different as it automatically searches for and displays any close relevant content to your search criteria as opposed to Google which crawls the web and returns content in the order of the number of links related to your subject.

For example, if you are looking for a French restaurant in Buckhead, it will not only return the list of restaurants, but also provide you with its ratings, address, phone number, average meal prices, and etc., all by hovering over the search result, you don’t even have to click on the link!

Can you imagine how many clicks Bing will save us over our lifetime?? Can you see it? I’ll get those precious seconds of my life back so that I may devote them to deleting the countless emails I’ve received asking me to hurry and get my complimentary bottle of penile enlargement pills (how did they know I needed that, I'm kidding of course).

Seriously, Bing holds a lot of promise to improve the way we search for information. I enjoy it so much that I’ve made it my default search engine. More importantly, it has a cool ringtone you can download from

(http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=043c49db-e33b-4603-a699-9f1fba8e9245). Bing Tone 2 is so cute that I made it my new BlackBerry ringtone. Oddly enough, you download the Microsoft tone to your iTunes account, which will then convert it to be played on any cell phone (even an iPhone).

Blogger Update: If you'd like to compare the search results of Bing and Google try this site, which provides a side-by-side comparison http://www.bing-vs-google.com/