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Other Search Engines Altavista, Alltheweb, Teoma and many other search properties exist on the internet, although nowhere near the search volume of the big 3. Discuss any other search engines here.

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Old 06-04-2009, 02:33 PM
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I searched my name on both Google and Bing. Google had 3 pages of results, some bad, but the good ones coming first. Bing had 3 results, none of which were bad, but none were what I considered the best results from Google.

I'll give Bing some time to develop, but it's not going to be able to compete with Google right off the bat like so many people expect it to.
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Old 06-06-2009, 12:38 PM
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It will go nowhere unless they can improve results like this:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=atlanta...tate&form=QBLH

Notice how many subdomains come up from number 2 to number 100 listing results or something. That doesn't even qualify as good enough to be embarrasing. It's the same crappy results from msn - which means once they run out of tv advertising dollars, they will tank - unless they improve which is not likely.
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Old 06-06-2009, 02:29 PM
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Old 06-04-2009, 09:38 AM
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My REW lead manager tracks where the signups are coming from. both have been simple MLS # searches from BING.

Keep 'em coming
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Just saw a Bing commercial on TV.

Be interesting to see if they actually make any headway.
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I've been getting a lot of traffic from Bing as well.
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Old 06-08-2009, 05:19 PM
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My rankings on Bing are awesome! If I was doing that good on Google I'd be RICH! lol
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I'll stick with Google...
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Old 07-04-2009, 11:47 PM
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Hello Rob,

I think "sticking" with Google is a given for most. Would you recommend all agents focus on Google, regardless of online competition?

How would you compare your ROI utilizing tweetdeck versus old "fashioned" blogging?
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I've seen several reports talking about how Bing is taking away market share from Google. The reports are just stating that Google has rested on their lead and didn't tale Bing serious enough.

I think we're going to have a war now - when Google gets their Operating System going - we'll see

btw - results seem to pretty well match Google's.
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