How Not To Improve Bing
I’m surprised that Bing Webmaster Centre is not fully functional after much hype surrounding Bing recently. What’s in the mind of MS team that develop Bing Webmaster Centre?
The screen shot above is my account, where Blogjer.com has been listed since ‘LIVE’ era. It was migrated here when Bing introduced, although I notice some websites went missing. No idea why.
But to my disappointment, an attempt to add new website failed with message ‘We could not find the page you requested‘. That’s odd if Bing team does not realize that something is broken somewhere under their custody .
Webmaster tool is crucial for webmaster who want to have their websites indexed and ranked better in Bing. Why? Because webmaster can tell Bing what should you looking at my website, and what shouldn’t. Or how and where should you find decent content in your website.
The webmaster who ranked well and earn big as the result of having decent ranking there, will naturally praise bing. As the result of word of mouth publicity, it will bring more webmasters to Bing to explore what potential Bing has for them.
But apparently, Microsoft does not really paying attention to their own tool. Before I decide to post this article, I’ve been waiting for a week, with hope that Microsoft will fix it. The wait is over.
With Microsoft, nothing is impossible.
Yep I noticed this too, I wish there would pull their finger out
I advertised in Bing for almost a month and didn’t like it. There seemed to be glitches surrounding which paid ads disappeared and an option for automatic price setting popped up and was accidentally clicked, depleting my budget early.
I’m not giving up on them yet though. I’ll try again soon.
Damn BING, its so lame, forget it MS, leave it to google
Bing does give search results much like Google but i would have to say that Google still gives more relevant search results.
i am using both Bing and Google and i think both search engines give relevant search results. i would still prefer Google though, because it gives a little bit more relevant search results than Bing.
BING search engine is just as good as Google. In my own personal experience, Google does give more releveant search result than Bing but the difference is very small. **
i am a user of Microsofts BING search engine and it is as good as google for static webpage search. for searching blogs, i think google gives more relevant search results compared bing.
my default search engine is Yahoo but now i am using BING because it is much better than Yahoo. i heard that Bing search engine would power Yahoo search also.
i think that Bing is not as good as Google. Google would still index new websites faster than Bing. Microsoft would still need a lot of catching to do with GoogleBot.