Bing! goes live.

Today, Microsoft have got around to soft launching their new search engine, Bing! Seems OK although a little bit too noisy for me I find the images distracting but I suppose they had to do something to differentiate themselves from the Google look and feel. But both have a text entry box and some links at the top to select the type of thing you are searching for.

Having played with it I have noticed something though. This was first mentioned in Gizmodo but Boy Genius and others are providing examples although not referring to it directly.

There is an issue when searching news sites with Bing!

The first entry always seems to contain a Microsoft link, irrespective of age of the story. I am hoping that this is a glitch in the initial seeding of data because if it is not then there is NO reason to use Bing! because you will not be able to trust the bias contained within the results.

As I say I really am hoping that this has to do with initial seeding of the search database and not some inbuilt bias from the management.