Should I Trust Bing's Search Engine Results?

Bing has gone all out with it's marketing campaign, not only with online efforts, but also offline claiming itself to be the first decision engine, whatever that means. Before Microsoft came out with Bing, it was MSN Search, then Live Search and many people in the SEO field still believe their algorithm did not change significantly since live.com. In my opinion their algorithm does not even come close to the power of Google and Yahoo's search technology. This explains how beneficial the new business partnership of Bing and Yahoo is. Yahoo will have a wider reach, use more resources, and Bing will have a more powerful search engine and both increase their their combined search market share.

Let's do a quick search exercise on Google, Yahoo and Bing.

Search Results on Google for the words: Google, Yahoo & Microsoft:

Google Results for the keyword Google

Google Results for the keyword Yahoo

Google Results for the keyword Microsoft

Clearly results are relevant, complete, and has tons of information on each keyword searched. The same seems to be true on Yahoo.

Search Results on Yahoo for the words: Google, Yahoo & Microsoft:

Yahoo Results for the keyword Google

Yahoo Results for the keyword Yahoo

Yahoo Results for the keyword Microsoft

Both Google and Yahoo showed sitelinks which should be normal for a very popular company with a very large website. Now take a look at the result of Bing below. This makes me question Bing's credibility in giving search engine results as the results seems to be biased to Microsoft owned properties.

Search Results on Bing for the words: Google, Yahoo & Microsoft:

Bing Results for the keyword Google

Bing Results for the keyword Yahoo

Bing Results for the keyword Microsoft

Wow, Bing gives pages full of information about Microsoft, and they only give 1 entry for Yahoo and 1 entry for Google. With tons of properties of Google, I can imagine something else should be in there, Gmail, Gtalk, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Picasa, Blogger, or even just the tons of articles talking about Google. The same goes with Yahoo! Yahoo Mail & Yahoo Messenger are two very popular products that I am sure these are very keyword focused and has tons of links using the Yahoo keyword. If Bing cannot display them, it is either their algorithm really doesn't work or their results are skewed by hand.

Even less popular search engines such as Ask and Cuil are showing better results.

• Ask Results for the Keyword Google


• Ask Results for the Keyword Yahoo


• Ask Results for the Keyword Microsoft


• Cuil Results for the Keyword Google


• Cuil Results for the Keyword Yahoo


• Cuil Results for the Keyword Microsoft

Hat tip to an SEO friend of mine, web designer Alfredo Palconit, told me about this search on Bing result just yesterday showing that Bing seems to have skewed results. Thanks also to Sulumits Retsambew posted the result earlier.