Seeking the best search engine? Bing vs. Google
Ralph Lewis III REPORTER
Issue date: 2/25/10 Section: News
In the battle of the information search engines, a clear winner has yet to be named.
Google was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin back in the late '90s. Both Page and Brin were University of Stanford computer science graduate students. According to Google's corporate Web site, when Google was initially created, it started as a search engine called "BackRub," which was primarily only used on the Stanford campus. Once the search engine grew to be too large, Page and Brin decided to change the name of the Web site to "Google." The name is derived from the mathematical term that "googol" which is the numeral 1 with 100 zeros behind it.
In December of 1998, PC Magazine was quoted stating "(Google) has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results." The magazine also recognized Google as the top search engine of choice in the Top 100 Websites for 1998. Yahoo! even allowed Google to become their default search provider in June of 2000. The American Dialect Society voted Google the "most useful Word of the Year" in 2002. Since this time, Google has continued to grow and develop into a multicultural, multilingual search engine used by millions of people across the world. Billions of searches have taken place through different varieties of Google search whether it is web, images or maps.
Now it seems there is a formidable match for Google: Bing. The Web site Bing was created by Dr. Qi Lu, the president of Microsoft's Online Services Division, in May of 2009. Lu spent 10 years working as a Yahoo! Senior Executive before joining Microsoft.
Bing has taken great strides in attempting to do more for users than what Google has provided. A Software Development Engineer at Microsoft stated "the underlying difference between Google and Bing is that Google is a search engine, while Bing is a decision engine." Bing takes the step of search to the next level. Not only does Bing search a keyword, it also takes into account area, income and direct information that is usually associated to the keyword.
For example, if YSU student were to look up movies on Bing, the search would show a list of local movie theatres as well as restaurants in the nearby area of said movie theaters. Bing essentially thinks along with a search. Microsoft and Bing are now also collaborating with Yahoo! in an effort to boost advertising. According to Microsoft engineers, there are more Hotmail or Live e-mail accounts (affiliated with Microsoft) then there are Gmail accounts (affiliated with Google), a statistic that Bing hopes to continue to capitalize on in the future. Eweek.com claims that Bing has beaten Google in design and search results but Google has enough built up loyalty to still retain users.
Google was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin back in the late '90s. Both Page and Brin were University of Stanford computer science graduate students. According to Google's corporate Web site, when Google was initially created, it started as a search engine called "BackRub," which was primarily only used on the Stanford campus. Once the search engine grew to be too large, Page and Brin decided to change the name of the Web site to "Google." The name is derived from the mathematical term that "googol" which is the numeral 1 with 100 zeros behind it.
In December of 1998, PC Magazine was quoted stating "(Google) has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results." The magazine also recognized Google as the top search engine of choice in the Top 100 Websites for 1998. Yahoo! even allowed Google to become their default search provider in June of 2000. The American Dialect Society voted Google the "most useful Word of the Year" in 2002. Since this time, Google has continued to grow and develop into a multicultural, multilingual search engine used by millions of people across the world. Billions of searches have taken place through different varieties of Google search whether it is web, images or maps.
Now it seems there is a formidable match for Google: Bing. The Web site Bing was created by Dr. Qi Lu, the president of Microsoft's Online Services Division, in May of 2009. Lu spent 10 years working as a Yahoo! Senior Executive before joining Microsoft.
Bing has taken great strides in attempting to do more for users than what Google has provided. A Software Development Engineer at Microsoft stated "the underlying difference between Google and Bing is that Google is a search engine, while Bing is a decision engine." Bing takes the step of search to the next level. Not only does Bing search a keyword, it also takes into account area, income and direct information that is usually associated to the keyword.
For example, if YSU student were to look up movies on Bing, the search would show a list of local movie theatres as well as restaurants in the nearby area of said movie theaters. Bing essentially thinks along with a search. Microsoft and Bing are now also collaborating with Yahoo! in an effort to boost advertising. According to Microsoft engineers, there are more Hotmail or Live e-mail accounts (affiliated with Microsoft) then there are Gmail accounts (affiliated with Google), a statistic that Bing hopes to continue to capitalize on in the future. Eweek.com claims that Bing has beaten Google in design and search results but Google has enough built up loyalty to still retain users.
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Nate
posted 2/25/10 @ 5:43 PM EST
I believe that this article, which personally appears to favor Bing a little bit, has missed a key point of Google search: the "Options" (Next time you search something on Google, click on the "Show Options" to expand these). (Continued…)
KabaLucky
posted 2/26/10 @ 4:45 AM EST
I also think this article favours Bing a bit to much
I my self tried using Bing, but the result were driving me ...
So eventuerly, the only word I was serchung in Bing was Google
Sorry Microsoft, every one has his Time. (Continued…)
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