We did, but it failed hard. Jolly1 asked a good question, I'd like to see an answer.

I have found bing and google to be the same search wise. Both are flooded with sites that use keywords to spam the hell out of search engines and make it hard to find something relevant. But I love the bing cashback program. Has saved me about $1500 in 2 years of shopping.

For some reason Google knows what i want to find and get it. Bing doesn't bing that often in my searches. In other words. Google generally always gets the results i want fast and easy.

Which is funny because by their logic, as long as people find it inferior (regardless of the reason), it is inferior. The typical sales argument they love to use. The same guys that use the "Halo has millions of buyers, therefore it is good" are downplaying the same argument for google, and the same argument used by PS3 owners about the quality and features of the games that these fanboys constantly downplay are being used for Bing. How ironic (not to say that Bing's actually good though).

Anyway, I have personally used bing, and it is definitely great for finding pictures, but as a search engine it is inferior to google. I have used it too and I find stuff much faster with Google. Hell, you could even say "bu bu bu you need to learn how to use Bing", but sorry, as long as Google is good enough, everyone is fine (and it is more than "just good enough" anyway) as switching to Bing can be a hassle (ever heard of switching costs, fanboys?).

As for other features, Bing has some cool features, but they are features I don't need. Google's features though, are great. And if Bing has the same features, they are either not significantly better, or most likely, not very well implemented (Google Maps is great, I used Bing the other day for comparison and I didn't see any significant improvement, but Google's interface is definitely friendly, not to say familiar).

I've found better results sticking with Google over Bing so far. For the most part I've found Bing to just be a fad, with results tied to popular demand on one or more sets of your search terms rather than quantitative analysis of the words as a whole and separately. I'm also not keen on how they return certain results, especially for images where I'd rather not have to hover over each image to get the details. UI wise, throwing some color into the mix doesn't change that it's pretty much the exact same layout as Google with the left-hand of Bing being what's normally at the top of your Google searches.

As long as Apple's Safari iPhone browser gives me the choice to keep Google as my search engine in the browser header I'll be okay. Even then, I'll just have to bookmark Google for performing searches if they try to force Bing on me.

Despite the fact that some don't like Bing, it is still, at worst, the second best search engine. I, for one prefer Google over Bing, but I do use Bing from time to time, and in my opinion, it is much better than anything else I've seen (with the exception of Google obviously).

Also, about the article, I'd simply like to state the obvious, had iTunes not worked on Windows, the iPod would have flopped. Simple as that, and Apple knew it at the time. People wouldn't have bought iBooks to get their iPods synched.

As for Apple using Bing rather than Google as the default search engine, it makes sense. Apple is in a situation where it has to choose to cooperate with either MS or Google, while MS does have Windows Mobile, it is largely seen as a failure and is losing market quite quickly, on the other hand Google has both Android and its own Android phones now, and Android can be seen as the iPhone's nemesis. Apple probably knows that in the mobile market, Google is the bigger threat, so it makes sense to ally with MS, a somewhat minor player, rather than continue using Google.

1. Bing always brings me the answers I want over Google 10X over.

2. Cash Back program

3. Better UI

Nuff said.

Why is your english so bad?

X ziyad X - What is succe? And why do you think IE is better then Chrome and Safari?

Sorry, but you do not see me speaking in broken Chinese.

edit: "Office and windows 2000 and windows 7 and IE and bing and ZUNE HD"

Those are average.

X ziyad X: "IE > Sfari > Chrome .. and thats FACT"

HAHAHAHA! I don't think even Microsoft employees believe that. Hell, even the die hard Microsoft loyalists at N4G wouldn't claim that... except for you. IE is the worst browser you can get for your PC, in all aspects.

wrong-

working with web design and being told by my very mentors - ask any web designer-

IE is THE WORST WEB BROWSER

and current benchmarks prove Safari is actually the fastest web browser ever.

unfortunately IE is about used by 80% of web surfers...so, web designers have to suffer A LOT.

but if the world worked without IE, many would be happy.