On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Jeff Davis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me@digitaljeff.com">me@digitaljeff.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hmmm..... a search string of: att email block 550<br>
on <a href="http://bing.com" target="_blank">bing.com</a> gets you what you want listed second in the results.<br>
The same string on google doesn't even have it in the first page.<br>
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I still use google as my primary, but lately I've been testing the<br>
result set returned at the MS engine.<font color="#888888"></font><br></blockquote></div><br clear="all">There is a lot of good discussion on this lately. Some of the techniques and algorithms being used (presumably) are a bit controversial but it boils down to the simple conclusion that MS has decided to get competitive and is putting some excitement back into the world of search.<br>
<br>(the controversial stuff is that Bing suposedly optimizes for search queries that have high value for advertisers and markets)<br><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <a href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</a> and twitter<br>