Ran across this excellent interview of the programmers over at Bing - Very Cool!
Rand Fishkin from SEOmoz interviews the Bing webmaster team: Eric, Rajesh, and Alessandro on market share, the Yahoo deal, SEO for Bing, Bing webmaster tools, and the Bing IIS Toolkit. Check out this cool video (17 min)
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6 Responses to Bing Programmer Interview
Manhattan
September 28th, 2009 at 11:19 am
I have a ton of respect for anyone smart enough to work on a search engine, but even though this is a big upgrade from the old MSN search, they still have a long way to go to compete with Google. Bing is still too easy to manipulate, which ends up delivering shoddy results.
SEMSteve
September 29th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I agree! From an advertisers standpoint the “new/upgraded” Bing Search Engine hasn’t delivered any better results than the old MSN search. No matter how much they spend on catchy TV spots, they still can’t compete with the reach and relevancy of Google.
Al Williams
September 30th, 2009 at 6:52 am
I met the MSN UK AdSales team at Ad Tech and they seem to be hinging a lot of their future growth on Bing. For me at present it has potential, but since usability is different to the simplicity of Google’s I wonder whether the user is incentivised enough to switch of their own accord.
Algernon
October 1st, 2009 at 5:21 am
Interesting interview. Thanks for sharing it. On the other hand, I think Bing still needs tons of work to become a real alternative to Google.
Anne Fox
October 1st, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Bing really needs to double their efforts, much better if they will do more. On the other hand, I could say that it’s a promising search engine. Who knows, Bing might be at the top spot in the near future.
soft
October 11th, 2009 at 3:40 am
I think bing webmaster tool is too simple, they need to improve it in the future with lot’s of feature like google have