bing.com Microsoft’s latest Google killer

May 28, 2009 Jim Connolly
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Hey Google, you better watch out because Microsoft is about to launch (yet) another search engine, this one’s called bing.com.

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According to Paul Stoddart of Microsoft UK, bing.com is going to make searching for relevant information easier than ever.  The claim is that bing.com will group relevant information together from various websites. So, if you search for a particular holiday destination, your bing.com results ‘should’ give you everything from flight times to hotel prices and a list of local restaurants.

It may just be a coincidence, but in bing.com’s promo video, it looks less like a regular search engine and more like a shopping search engine.  All the examples they show, are related to shopping or generally spending money.  Microsoft has also said that it is ‘partnering’ with certain providers, which they (Microsoft) will recommend to you.

Readers in the United States will be the first to get to use bing.com, before the service rolled-out elsewhere. Let’s see!

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10 Responses to bing.com Microsoft’s latest Google killer
  1. sheri latulip
    May 28, 2009 | 7:05 pm

    RT @thetechnewsblog: Watch out Google!! http://bit.ly/igxCb

  2. Ty Riel
    May 28, 2009 | 9:50 pm

    Well im glad Paul Stoddart of Microsoft UK said it will be easier than every, if i recall wasnt Vista supoced to be easier and better than ever?

  3. Ghada Ahmed
    May 29, 2009 | 1:31 am

    bing.com Microsoft’s latest Google killer http://twurl.nl/3bc6og

  4. Stu
    May 29, 2009 | 2:29 pm

    RT @thetechnewsblog Watch out Google: http://bit.ly/igxCb

  5. R A Jensen
    May 29, 2009 | 2:30 pm

    Competition can’t hurt.

    • Tech News Blog Editor | Jim Connolly
      May 29, 2009 | 3:52 pm

      I agree – we need competition with search.

      I spoke with Robert Scoble earlier and he thinks I was a little harsh regarding the shopping element of bing.com Apparently, it will offer regular search.

  6. Mark Harai
    May 29, 2009 | 4:57 pm

    "bing.com Microsofts latest Google killer" http://bit.ly/xd85e -

  7. Scott Baker
    October 1, 2009 | 7:14 pm

    I don’t think BING will catch google only because I have been trying for a month to get my busines listing updated for my address and it just isn’t getting done. Only when BING is more user friendly will they probably catch google.

    • Jim Connolly
      October 1, 2009 | 8:28 pm

      Good point Scott. I want bing to succeed, so we can have some competition – but it’s feeling more and more like a shopping engine to me.