This comment is quite late. Hopefully somebody at Microsoft will see this.
I used Bing for several months. I actually found it indistinguishable from Google except for linux howto questions (Google seems to understand forum websites better).
The dealbreaker for me was lack of SSL support. Switched back to Google.
Nobody who uses Google regularly will switch to Bing: not enough of an advantage. But people who start out with Bing may never switch. That's the long-term game Microsoft has to play.
I used Bing for several months. I actually found it indistinguishable from Google except for linux howto questions (Google seems to understand forum websites better).
The dealbreaker for me was lack of SSL support. Switched back to Google.
Nobody who uses Google regularly will switch to Bing: not enough of an advantage. But people who start out with Bing may never switch. That's the long-term game Microsoft has to play.