It’s been over a year since the Bing search engine launched. It’s done fairly well, often beating Yahoo! in terms of market share; not surprisingly, though, it doesn’t come close to Google. However, lots of people are considering Bing to be a positive alternative to Google.
Including Facebook. Facebook may not be the first place you’d go to do a search, but if you’re looking for something on Facebook, whether or not Facebook itself has results, it offers web results served by Bing. See the screencap below.
Another area of massive potential is through Apple’s iPhone. As recent as a month ago, rumors were still swirling that Bing would become the default, but at the WWDC in June, Steve Jobs announced that Bing would simply become another choice for the default search engine.
You can choose Bing as your default search engine by going into your Settings, then choosing Safari and Search Engine.
Whether or not you personally prefer Bing over another search engine, we cannot ignore that more and more big companies are looking to Bing for their search results instead of automatically going to the giant Google.
If you haven’t given Bing a shot yet, I definitely suggest trying it and seeing how your searching experience changes from one search engine to another.
I’ve been using Bing as my default search engine since it was released and I have not seen any reason to switch back to Google for search yet. I find the results on Bing to be just as relevant as what Google provides when I do comparison testing.
I figure Google already has the bulk of my email and my appointments so I should at least keep something from them.