Using Bing! for a month – I’ll take you up on that Scott Hanselman

OK – so perhaps it opportunistic of me to try to get traffic to my blog because Scott Hanselman just blogged that he will use Bing! for a month. Fine! But I will try for my own reasons just to see what it feels like not to use “the Almighty”…

Note: This post had a really funny side effect. Please also read - Funny story: The day Scott Hanselman DOS:ed my blog

Scott Hanselman: Bosom Buddies: How to make Google Chrome use Microsoft Bing for Search

Go give Bing! a try. I'm going to use Bing for the whole month of June and see how it goes. I'll blog my results.

But in order to do this I HAVE to be able to use Bing! as my browsers default search engine. Scott showed how to do it in Chrome. Here’s how to do it in two other browsers I use:

Internet Explorer 8

bingdefault2

Bing Search http://www.ieaddons.com/in/details/searchhelpers/Bing_Search/

FireFox

bingdefault

Bing 20090601 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10434 

or

Bing 20090531 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12205

Now let’s see how this goes… it’s going to feel weird at first for sure.

Cheers,

M.

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posted @ Wednesday, June 03, 2009 1:33 PM

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# Bing serves more information on your search results

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