James Ward

It’s been a breeze to add a local business listing to Google Maps for a long time and they’ve made umpteen changes to the interface since it was launched. Bing has been slower off the mark (in the UK, anyway) but they’ve finally started inviting listings.
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Your favourite search engine is Google, right? Or is it…

A Microsoft employee (working in his own time) has developed a ‘blind taste’ challenge where you compare the results from three search engines: Google, Yahoo! and the recently launched Bing. You choose your favourite set of results to reveal which search engine they came from. The results can be surprising. In my tests I found that I preferred Bing’s results almost as often as Google’s, with Yahoo! coming in a poor third. (more…)