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This is simply my experience from the past few days, but I’m pretty impressed with Microsoft’s Bing.com search engine.  For example, I’ve been looking for a hat rack, one of those that stand up in a hallway with a few hooks at the top to hang hats, coats, scarves, etc.

I Googled “Knoxville, TN, furniture, hat rack” and on the first page of results there’s only one entry that’s even remotely related to what I’m looking for – and it’s online only, not local in Knoxville.

When I did the same search on Bing, the first 3 results are exactly what I’m looking for – hat racks available locally.  And the next 2 results are for hat racks available online.   I found what I needed and picked it up the same day.   Bing found it for me when Google didn’t.

I don’t remember the other examples right now, but today was a concrete example of Bing delivering better search results than Google.  That’s the first time I’ve been able to say that someone beat Google in years – and I’ve been online since Compuserve and Genie in the late 80’s.  I may look back on this a year from now and say “what was I thinking!” but as of 10 minutes ago, Bing.com has replaced Google.com as my default search engine.

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