Schmidt on Bing: MSFT Does This Every Year
Google’s not worried about Bing, not one bit.
In a recent interview with Fox, Google CEO Eric Schmidt put forth the appearance that he’s not worried about Microsoft’s latest search engine Bing for a number of reasons.
"It's not the first entry for Microsoft. They do this about once a year," Schmidt told the Fox Business Network earlier in the week. "I don't think Bing's arrival has changed what we're doing. We are about search, we're about making things enormously successful, by virtue of innovation."
It’s true that, over the years, Microsoft has had a number of redesigns and brand changes for its search engine. Since the launch in 1998, we’ve seen MSN Search, Windows Live Search, Live Search and now Bing. However, Microsoft seems determined to push Bing as a “decision making engine” as opposed to a search engine similar to past endeavors, and Google’s Schmidt seems to believe that that alone will stop Bing from overtaking Google.
"Google is about getting all the information and organizing it. Yahoo has a different strategy. We think ultimately Bing will evolve to a different strategy as well."
Do you think Bing could pose a significant threat to Google or Yahoo? Let us know what you think of Microsoft’s new decision making engine in the comments below.
The only threat it will pose is to the project manager responsible for spending oodles of MS cash to develop this dud.
HOORAY PORN!!!
They have pared down the extraneous garbage on the interface and I can now use Bing to get results from Microsoft's knowledge base.... at least someone at MS was listening.
Still, not quite as good of results as Google for most of my searches (usually technical searches).
Bing does do a really good job of getting past my porn filters I installed at work...negative to me but could gain them market share
but i'll always google first.
The mouse over feature is awesome. It will soon be copied by Safari and listed as their latest and greatest feature.
It will be tough to beat Google.
All I could think about was the knights who said 'Ni'.
Damn you Monty Python.
And no, I don't think has a serious issue at their doorstep. Some loss of revenue maybe, but not huge.