I just checked out the video of Microsoft’s new search engine sequel to Live Search which is set to roll out over the next few days. PCWorld reports full usage next Wednesday.
I hate to say this, but I’m actually impressed with this Bing thing. It seems to have some very smart ways to help people find stuff better. This is not good news for Google, but let’s not jump the gun. The thing hasn’t even launched yet.
They boast a good local search platform, but it remains to be seen whether it is just scraped stuff from the web, which is hardly the best local information you can get, or if it really provides decent information. I’m not holding my breath for anything remotely like hyper local results.
Once we’re able to compare results with Google’s we’ll know much more about whether Bing will become a staple in search, or just another option which fails to pull serious traffic from the Goog.
