Today, on Monday December 07, 2009, Google introduced real-time search whereby popular search results such as Lady Gaga, or Tiger Woods. This is a huge breakthrough generally, many relevant search results could have been missed in the past.
Real-time search will include dynamic information posted on Twitter, Facebook and in blogs while ensuring that search results are as relevant as possible.
One of the key advantages is that real-time search results will be free of spam and other irrelevant information.
Over the past several weeks, people around the globe have been testing and reviewing Bing – new search engine recently introduced by Microsoft. It seems that Microsoft had killed Live.com overnight replacing it with its new baby. If you navigate to Live.com, and will automatically re-direct to Bing.com. We truly hope that the new Bing search engine will grow and mature over the next several years, unless of course it is replaced by yet another search engine project.
While we are still in the processes of testing and reviewing Microsoft’s new search engine, we have come across some peculiar differences between Bing and Google as it pertains to search results relevancy.
Oddly enough, the same page is nowhere to be found when searching on Bing using the same key-phrase. To us, it simply means that Bing simply does not find our blog entry relevant. You be the judge of that.
In our view, the purpose of Internet search engines is to provide us with the most relevant results. Thus far, Google has been doing an amazing job constantly adding new features and functionality to its search engine and beyond. As for Bing, while it has great presentation and I must say very cool backgrounds, it’s most definitely lacks search results relevance. Should we consider it another failure from Microsoft? Only time will tell.
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