Why I Don't Like Bing
One of the most interesting parts of having a blog (besides when people leave great comments) is being able to look at the traffic statistics and see how people are finding my posts. I don't really get a lot of traffic here, which I think adds to the interest.
Google, yahoo, and most other webcrawlers identify themselves in a way that makes them easy to ignore in the stats. But Bing… well, Bing is a little bitch. Bing will make itself out to look like a legitimate user, and tell me that the hit came from a search on Bing. For instance, right now I'm looking at a line that says someone using IE6, on a Windows XP machine, with the IP 65.55.110.96, came to one of my posts from a search on bing.com for "remember". It's kind of frustrating – the page it hit is not even in the top 10,000 results for a search for "remember".
And guess who owns the IP address that the hit came from? Microsoft. Microsoft is falsifying page-referrer headers to make it look like I'm getting traffic from bing.
Another boycott? Hardly. Bing doesn't do anything better than Google anyway. So, now I can add "annoying" to the list of bing qualities.. just under "useless".
(also, this is now currently the only google result for "bing is a bitch", let's change that!)
Tags: 65.55.110.96, bing fraud, bing is a bitch
Tom said,
I haven't really formed a hardline opinion about bing.com yet but the times that I have used I think "This is no better than Google", in fact, a few times I thought the results I got on bing were the same results I got on Google … I only went to bing because I thought maybe they could find the saganaki plates Google couldn't turn up! Fail! I'll try bing from time to time until I'm finally fed up … look at that, I've already formed my hardline opinion! Ta la bing!
July 29, 2009 @ 4:12 pm
R Lynn said,
I tried Bing out today, and I really wasn't impressed with the results. I'll try it again and see what I can get, but I think I'll double check it with my default (Google of course)
July 29, 2009 @ 4:28 pm
spudart said,
Funny how you call bing a bitch. How about instead of calling people bitches, we call them bings. Oh that Marsha. She's such a bing!
July 29, 2009 @ 11:10 pm
sparx said,
Who's Marsha?
July 30, 2009 @ 7:58 am
helen said,
I don't like Bing at all, it is unrelated to my search terms. I loved Google much more last year, now it is all what I don't want.
September 7, 2010 @ 5:51 pm
Nguyen Van Minh said,
L.O.L. I found this via Bing, I personally find Bing easier, and since I use a Microsoft-Account I can access my Microsoft Hotmail in 1 click 😛
– a Loyal Microsoft-Fanboy
February 22, 2013 @ 10:29 am
sparx said,
I'm curious – what would a "a Loyal Microsoft-Fanboy" would be searching for that they'd end up on a blog post titled "Why I Don't Like Bing"?
February 22, 2013 @ 10:36 am
sparx said,
Yay traffic logs! "bing it bitch"
That'd actually be a good slogan.
February 22, 2013 @ 10:39 am
spudart said,
lol. "bing it bitch" And yes, it is on urbandictionary.com.
February 25, 2013 @ 3:52 pm