On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:58:21 +0000, Neil Hughes wrote: > Arne wrote: >> Have you ever tried all options on Google Maps? The "Satelite" and >> "Terrain" (if that is the word in English)! I take Google any time >> over that *terrible* map from Bing. > A mapping system is only as good as it is accurate and up-to-date. > Google's aerial maps for my part of the UK are at least 3 years old - I > can see my next door neighbour's old car and the housing estate a few > miles away is missing half it's buildings. Bing's aerial maps seem to be > only months old.
Bing is only months old. Will their aerial maps still be "only months old" three years from now? Lots of people in the SEO forums complain that it takes up to several months before Bing notices a new high traffic website they put up whereas Google finds new sites in a matter of hours. This weakness is officially acknowledged by Microsoft so they've focused their crawlers on "popular" topics such as celebrities and news events. The net effect is that Bing appears faster and more up to date for popluar searches but since they are starving resources for less common search terms, searches in your specialist area of interest (especially if obscure, esoteric, or arcane) will be much worse than Google. Phil -- Philip Chee <[email protected]>, <[email protected]> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. [ ]Logic means arriving at wrong conclusions with assurance. * TagZilla 0.066.6 _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
