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Bing vs. Google revisited for genealogists

Posted by James Tanner on May 7, 2010 at 6:21pm
In working with the computers at the Mesa Regional Family History Centerin Mesa, Arizona, I frequently find that the Microsoft Bing searchengine has been activated on different computers. Bing was unveiled byMicrosoft on May 28, 2009 and went online on June 3, 2009, so it isalmost one year old. In one year, Bing has risen to become the thirdlargest search engine on the web by query volume. Wikipedia.However, being third largest is somewhat of an illusion. Google hassomething over 85% of all web queries, while the second largest, Yahoohas just over 6%. In July of 2009, Microsoft and Yahoo! entered into anagreement for Bing to power the Yahoo! Search.

The real question for genealogists is whether Bing has made any progress infinding genealogical resources on the web? So, I decided to re-runseveral searches I had used some time ago to compare the two searchengines.
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