Google vs. Microsoft: Google’s Days Numbered?

“Google it!” said millions of people around the globe.

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For the past few years Google has become a synonym for ‘search’ and they’ve been clinging to the throne for so many years, but now as Microsoft’s latest search engine Bing has slowly started to get an advanced search algorithm, many users including us, at Molten Transistor, are wondering how long Google will remain the Search-king?

Three features that make us go for Bing.

Visual Search

One of Bing’s major advantage is the Visual Search feature. While it’s definitely still in beta (and not really beta in the Google sense) what it can do is rather impressive. For the queries it has information for, such as exercises or  sports, it displays a series of related pictures sorted in alphabetical order.

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Bing’s searches have one key advantage over Google’s. When you’re paging through the results Bing returns, you can click on an arrow that appears to the right of the search and get a preview of the content on the page. For example, the preview for Apple’s website provides links for all of Apple’s major products and includes support information. For a business, the contact info, hours and other important information is usually listed.

 This a very useful feature, allowing you to get the information you need without having to surf through page after page, especially if you’re in a hurry.

Bing Video

As a video aggregator, Bing Video has Google’s arse whipped. Google Video searches mostly  return Youtube and Google Video videos, while incorporating the odd Vimeo or Dailymotion video here and there.

 Bing also includes these videos, but also includes clips from major network shows and Hulu. The best part, however, is the way the videos are presented. Google’s video search aesthetic isn’t particularly well-suited for video medium either, with results pages that look like crude versions of Youtube’s search result pages. By comparison, Bing’s results pages look much sleeker.

In addition, when you mouse over a video’s thumbnail on these results pages, a preview of the video begins to play. It’s an incredibly useful feature.

After all this, will Google still remain as the most used search engine, or will Bing take over?

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