microsoft launchs www.bingo.com

[kingcobra]

Well I'm sort of glad it just isn't me, I believe that the strategy which works well with Google gets you in the crapper with this, which forebodes why their engine blows, I mean come on, leaving out great sites liks ours, it's got to be pure crap with no taste or effectiveness

[suffolkpoker]

Ken surely Bing have missed the boat with out ranking our sites top of average keywords like "poker and online poker".

On a serious note, im glad Microsoft have seen the need for change, the did need to do something for live.com. I would even be surprised if they can even compete with yahoo.

[TheOPC]

I would guess their search gets a decent amount of unsophisticated computer users.

I can also say from experience, it doesn't really matter if you optimize or not, I've never hit the radar with msn. I've even played their little game where I submit the information they want from webmasters... I've had sites that ranked easily on google and yahoo, that were "also ran" from an MSN point of view...

I figure if I can't beat them, why bother... Maybe with their name change and facelift they will adapt.

[2pair]

I think they're a little late. Anyone whois that domain to see how long they've had it for?

[kingcobra]

Tom the fact they are ignoring our awesome sites is damn serious indeed

[suffolkpoker]

i second that Ken, they really need to be upping there game here :-)

[fantozzi]

To get users switch from the other search engines, they need not only to be better than Google (which it isn't), but to be *MUCH* better than it.

So, I don't see them surpassing Google anytime soon.

[suffolkpoker]

Originally Posted by fantozzi

To get users switch from the other search engines, they need not only to be better than Google (which it isn't), but to be *MUCH* better than it.

So, I don't see them surpassing Google anytime soon.

I dont even seem them competing with yahoo infairness

[Pokerboy]

The results from bing.com suck on local languages. Don't know about the English version though...

[kingcobra]

Well their stuff is in there by default with IE and a lot of people aren't savvy enough to know how to deselect that and more importantly download and select the Google toolbar. So as someone said, they have a bunch of unsophisticated users and they get what they deserve in terms of the quality of their search results. You would think that a company as big as Microsoft could have come up with a better engine.