Even with new technology stemming from google every couple of months (awesome products like Google instant, voice search, image search and etc), it seems Microsoft's Bing is slowly taking some (very little at this time= ie Millions of users) users from google. Why? I think it has a lot to do with Bing great integration of social networking built right into the engine (like facebook and etc). These make search recommendations easy and publishing painless. Personally I think Bing is a decent search engine and Microsoft has been trying very hard lately (unlike RIM, as mentioned in my past blog regarding blackberry) to stay relevant and to introduce new ways of offering functionality to end users like us. Aside from Bing, I think microsoft also has done a decent job with their Windows Phone 7 OS which is a clean OS and will be even better with the new Windows Phone 7.5 OS (named Mango) which is expected sometime next year. New devices powered by microsoft's new OS will also be using Bing as the default search engine and I expect that within a few years, Bing could be more ubiquitous in the Search engine niche that google has confidently occupied for the better part of the last decade! I am actually in support of Bing since Google has had a shady past with user privacy (from spying on people's wifi to forcing people to use that crap called Buzz). Even though I use google daily, here's a rare support for a bright future for Microsoft's Bing !
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