L.A. Times Article about Microsoft’s new search engine Bing.

The other day I posted my thoughts about the poor search quality of Microsoft’s highly promoted new search engine BING. Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks their new venture provides poorer results than their old Live.com. The L.A. Times had a great article today with their thoughts on this subject. Click here to read this great article and let me know your thoughts on this subject too!
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Has Microsoft missed the mark with their new search engine “Bing?”

I was very interested to see Microsoft was launching Bing their new search engine this week. Although I’m a very big fan of Google, I’m also a big fan of competition. Bing has a slick new home page that somewhat mirrors the simple look of Google, Yahoo and Ask. For me the look of the home page is less important than the relevance of the search results. Based on my initial searches, I would have to give Microsoft a failing grade on this new search engine. I sampled a wide variety of search terms related to different products and industries. In many cases, Yahoo local results were in...
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