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Or you can just fake that you are in US or Canada.
Here[^]. Care to try?
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Errm - what's it meant to do? All that happens here is a redirect to Bing. Seems a waste of a domain name to me.
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They had something like this before in the lounge.
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Apparently, it works only for users from the US and Canada. For others, it just redirects to the bing home page.
I tried it already and Google won 5/5.
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Quote: a study using a representative online sample of nearly 1000 people, ages 18 and older from across the US. The participants were chosen from a random survey panel and were required to have used a major search engine in the past month.
Well, at least they were very thorough.
Quote: – with all branding removed from both search engines. The test did not include ads or content in other parts of the page such as Bing’s Snapshot and Social Search panes and Google’s Knowledge Graph
It doesn't matter how good your product is, it's not very useful to compare it without the UX.
Study details[^]
If it moves, compile it
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Quote:
It doesn't matter how good your product is, it's not very useful to compare it without the UX.
This was my problem with the test as well. I was getting good results in both windows, but when I've used Bing in the past, the UX put me off.
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Not the link, obviously, that just leads to bing.
The redirect url www.bingiton.com is registered to MarkMonitor[^] which specialises in brand protection. I could understand what they are doing as part of a marketing exercise, but not as brand protection. If MS have not engaged them it is a bit poacher-turned-gamekeeper, if MS did then it's an odd move.
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It works only for users from US and Canada. For others, it just redirects to bing.com
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Oh, that makes more sense then. Perhaps the OP should have posted when more users from the US are active.
I've had a look through a US proxy, it still looks more like a marketing exercise than brand protection.
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I posted that around 6 in morning Eastern time. People in US should be getting online now.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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Bing will never, ever, ever have a chance until they change their name.
"Have you Googled it?" is nonsensical but inoffensive.
"Have you Bing'd it?" makes me want to conjugate the "Bing" to "Bang", and always conjures up visions of Chandler Bing from Friends. It's just an awkward and trite name.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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I suspect use of a Bong when coming up with the name. It's Bing Bong.
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Lol i am having the same thought too. Bing bing!
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Yeah, well, I gave up using Google when I once looked up Glomerulonephritis, which my wife told me one her friends had. The first five results were for folks, including Amazon, recommending that I buy Glomerulonephritis from them. 
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Well where do you think your wife's friend got it from?
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Tried it before, Google won every time. Same for the friends I've shown it to. They say Bing wins more often, but I haven't seen it once...must be in the wrong demographic? 
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May be they show page 1 from bing and page 200 or so from google.
"Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[ ^]
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lewax00 wrote: They say Bing wins more often
I assume, by they, that you mean Microsoft.
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Yeah, specifically I meant in the ads they were running a while back (maybe they still are, I just haven't seen them recently).
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I tried it... I immediately typed in "Serpentooth" (See my signature)... The results on the left showed exactly what I wanted, and the results on the right turned it into "Serpent's Tooth" and gave me a variety of different sorts of crap I couldn't care less about.
Three guesses which one was which... No desire to proceed to search #2.
Microsoft should really stick to making game consoles, IDEs, and alternately-good-and-bad operating systems. The rest, we can do without.
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