Thread: Bing

If you are optimizing to Google the rest of the engines will index you as well.

I agree entirely with ralphie13. I am getting actually more traffic from Bing than Yahoo.

I havent tried using Bing yet but I am planning to since I have heard about it in search engine isnt it Bing from Microsoft? So MSn is also a Microsoft right?

I'm seeing a little increased traffic from Bing. It's much easier to rise in results than Google.


However, I get the feeling that people using Bing are mostly computer illiterates who don't know how to change their default homepage. They click anything that comes up in their results, whether or not the description matches what they want. As a result, I get lots of bounces from Bing.

That's my theory anyway.

Actually more and more people are using Bing. I think the trend will continue. From what I can tell the search results are just as good as Google and much better than Yahoo.

I get more direct traffic to my sites, than from Bing.

And while there are going to be fans of Bing - Bing remains a very spammable search engine.

If they start gaining market share, expect spammers to start concentrating their efforts to fill up the search results for Bing (which will in turn cause people to go back to Google).

Bing is the current web search engine from Microsoft. Unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego, Bing is a replacement for Live Search. It went fully online on June 3, 2009 with a preview version released on June 1, 2009.

According to Nielsen Ratings, Bing is now the fastest growing SE up from 9.4% in July to 10.7% market share in September. Personally I think this has more to do with the squilions Microsoft has spent on TV ads and bloggers pushing the "Decision Engine" into the market. How much staying power Bing has is yet to be determined. Google still holds almost 70% of the search market so it's definitely the place to get a good ranking.