Philip Chee wrote:
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?
Good point....we shall see. However, I access maps in the present, not
the future, and currently Google's are woefully out-of-date for a lot of
the checks *I* do. I'm not claiming this applies to everyone...I simply
thought the original statement that Bing's maps are terrible compared to
Google was such a blanket statement it needed to be corrected.
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.
In which case, I'll stick to doing my normal searching in Google, and my
map searching in Bing. Thanks for the information.
--
Neil Hughes
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