HappyMaz Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 I had an email today all about Bing - Microsoft's new search engine. Visually it looks good, and the results are quick and relevant which is a bonus! I searched EYFS and the FSF came up on the fourth page, so I searched HappyMaz and mummy spud's post telling me I could get double points on my petrol at Tesco came up as the number one item! Have a look at Bing and see what you make of it! Maz Quote
Guest Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 It's good for finding images and my business is second listing for my key words so well chuffed. Its really a rebranded MSN live which wasn't popular. It's taken over Yahoo but bets are off that it will replace Google. Quote
HappyMaz Posted June 11, 2009 Author Posted June 11, 2009 Its really a rebranded MSN live which wasn't popular. It's taken over Yahoo but bets are off that it will replace Google. That's interesting isn't it biccy - I wasn't immediately aware that is was from Microsoft... even though the email address clearly said so! Maz Quote
Steve Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 We're a bit slow picking up on the ratings for EYFS Maz, but 'Bing' (I assume that's going to be the equivalent of 'Google') for Foundation Stage and happily we're right up at number 1, beating Teacher Net and the DCFS EYFS site(still listed as DFES...)! We're in 5th place for Google. Incidentally, we seem to be regularly topping 100,000 visitors a month now, which I reckon to be a Good Thing. Quote
HappyMaz Posted June 11, 2009 Author Posted June 11, 2009 (edited) I have a low boredom threshold, Steve but I kind of figured that if I'd searched for Foundation Stage we'd have been higher up! I just went back for another bite of the bing cherry - and there it was, FSF on top where it should be! How does it all work though? I like to think there's a Gringotts-like wizard in my laptop thumbing through his rotadex to find me the right page (a very small one, obviously!). I can understand why the search engine would go straight to the FSF home page, but when I searched my forum name earlier how did it light upon that particular post? Why that one and not any of the (very few ) mentions of my name on here? That's a good point, too: I wonder if Bing will ever enter the language as a verb in the way Google has? Maz Edited June 11, 2009 by HappyMaz Quote
HappyMaz Posted June 11, 2009 Author Posted June 11, 2009 We're in 5th place for Google. Incidentally, we seem to be regularly topping 100,000 visitors a month now, which I reckon to be a Good Thing. I think I have the basis of July's quiz here Steve: how many of those 100,000 visits were actually made my me? Maz (isn't there an angelic looking whistling smiley anywhere?) Quote
sunnyday Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 Hi Maz - looks interesting - but....... I already have - at the top of my screen......Orange toolbar, Google toolbar, Sparklebox toolbar and AVG Yahoo toolbar - don't know how to 'get rid' of them and daren't add anything else!!! Sunnyday Quote
Shiny Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 Bing looks very pretty, but I don't do change, if I switched on my computer and GOOGLE wasn't shining back at me I would be a bit panicked!!! Quote
Steve Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 I think I have the basis of July's quiz here Steve: how many of those 100,000 visits were actually made my me? Hmm - well it's not entirely accurate as it relies on visitors allowing the FSF to put a cookie on their system, but the Google analytics package reckons we've had nearly 60,000 unique visitors this month. So if no one else had visited you would be responsible for slightly under 40,000 visits. At least we have an upper limit on your patronage of the site... Quote
Cait Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 I always use easysearch as my primary search engine because I raise funds for preschool that way. If It doesn't turn up what I'm looking for I go to Google as a second option Quote
Guest Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 When it was in production the codeword was Kumo (means cloud I think). They should have kept that as Bing has me running to the microwave or bursting into White Christmas...... Quote
Cait Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 Or Chandler Bing... That was the one I thought of - oh and 'Groundhog Day' 'Bing' when he meets up with his old school chum the insurance man Quote
Susan Posted June 11, 2009 Posted June 11, 2009 Hi Maz - looks interesting - but....... I already have - at the top of my screen......Orange toolbar, Google toolbar, Sparklebox toolbar and AVG Yahoo toolbar - don't know how to 'get rid' of them and daren't add anything else!!! Sunnyday Go to Views on your toolbar and click on toolbars and you can remove the toolbars you dont want!!! Quote
HappyMaz Posted June 11, 2009 Author Posted June 11, 2009 So if no one else had visited you would be responsible for slightly under 40,000 visits. At least we have an upper limit on your patronage of the site... Well that gives me something to aim for - I am on the brink of another milestone post after all! Maz Quote
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