Bing! missed opportunity
Bing! missed opportunity
So today I had a fresh install of Windows, with safety first. I’ll go download an antivirus program, searching for “AVG” in bing from the default IE7 homepage.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx
Strange result? Maybe I’ll make my search more specific: “Download AVG antivirus”
Nope still crap. So I go to google.com and search for avg
Thats it, all of the top 10 results are all perfect! So why couldn't Bing! find this?
I went back to the IE welcome page. I couldn’t believe that Bing! search was this bad.
And then I hit refresh and all was revealed.
I was searching with bing the microsoft website. I had no option to search bing OR microsoft.com and I didn’t even notice the “Search microsoft.com” text message as I was more focused searching bing!
This welcome page is useless! I'd swap it for Google after the first use. There is the opportunity to create a special landing page, or default to ninemsn again. Even if I prefer Firefox/Chrome I still need to use Internet Explorer once to download the alternatives. That a 100% of PC users view this screen at least once.
I would think in 2009, detailing how a browser works is redundant. We just need google.......erm bing! so we can get to protecting our Windows machines from the internet viruses.
