Not trying to be a Google fan-boy here, but I'd say thats a matter of opinion. I still compare the two search engines occasionally with the help of Firefox add-ons, and I still find the Google results are more relevant.
If Google is making their interface look more like Bing - whatever. I preferred Google from the beginning for its straight-forward simplicity, and second for its increasingly better results. Ultimately that position became reversed as search engines improved, and now I want the best results possible. Everyone is always copying and "borrowing" appearances. As long as its fast and intuitive, I'm cool with it - but I prefer Google's plainer and less distracting appearance. As with the great Microsoft/Apple debates; in the end, I still say its whats under the hood that counts. Until Bing starts showing better results than Google, I could care less who looks like what. I'll change the theme or use Greasemonkey so it looks how I want it to. And back to the debate at-hand: I have seen evidence that suggests and/or proves that Bing was trolling Google. Going off-of Microsoft's response, Bing cheats their relevance matching and will return obscure results because of the actions of end-users. Do you know what that results in? Websites dedicated to making fun of similar problems, such as 'autocompleteme'. And I'd still like to see how Microsoft's response directly correlates with what Google was able to establish. -- Espi On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Crawford, Scott <crawfo...@evangel.edu>wrote: > Let’s assume they are. I say that’s great. If all Bing did was search > google and curate the results, it would be worth using over google.**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:michealespin...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, July 01, 2011 6:27 PM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: Anyone else seeing the Google interface changes?**** > > ** ** > > Thats because Bing is searching Google results. > > -- > Espi**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > > > **** > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:30 AM, Steven Peck <sep...@gmail.com> wrote:**** > > Well, their picture choice also sucked. The default image I got made for > poor page usuability as the background contrast with the text entry was > inconsistent on the images I got. I also wasn't interested in picking a > picture.**** > > **** > > I switched to bing several months ago when it was giving the same or > slightly better results for what I search for 90% of the time. It's gotten > better for me since. The few times I try Google on a bing fail, I fail > there about half the time.**** > > **** > > I like the competition. It's making it better for the rest of us.**** > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Ralph Smith <m...@gatewayindustries.org> > wrote:**** > > Because they add these “features” without giving you a choice, like the > page previews that pop up next to search results and can’t be permanently > disabled. It annoys me so much I’ve pretty much stopped using Google > search.**** > > **** > > *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* Friday, July 01, 2011 1:53 PM**** > > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues**** > > *Subject:* Re: Anyone else seeing the Google interface changes?**** > > **** > > That's because they did it so poorly :)**** > > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Webster <carlwebs...@gmail.com> wrote:*** > * > > But they did the nice picture thing a while back and removed it after the > loud chorus of angry users.**** > > **** > > **** > > Webster**** > > **** > > *From:* Steven Peck [mailto:sep...@gmail.com] **** > > *Subject:* Re: Anyone else seeing the Google interface changes?**** > > **** > > So, GMail changes look ok. Google layout looks more and more like bing > every day now. 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