{"id":595,"date":"2009-12-08T08:51:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T22:51:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=595"},"modified":"2009-12-08T08:51:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T22:51:23","slug":"hmmm-maybe-theres-something-to-this-bing-business-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/?p=595","title":{"rendered":"Hmmm, maybe there&rsquo;s something to this Bing business after all."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I needed a utility that I remembered hearing about. I couldn\u2019t remember if I\u2019d read about it, been told about it, dreamed about it, etc, nor could I remember the name, but I knew vaguely what it did. After a few frustrating minutes searching on google, trying different potential key words, trying to imagine how they might be pitching it, etc. Nothing. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>In desperation, I tried Bing with the same set of keywords as my last attempt on Google. First 3 hits on the page all pointing to the right place.&#160; So I went back to Google, tried the same keywords again, and the result I was looking for was on Page 4. <\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>So, completely non-scientific test, shouldn\u2019t read too much into it, but still, I may not be as sceptical about using Bing next time. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning I needed a utility that I remembered hearing about. I couldn\u2019t remember if I\u2019d read about it, been told about it, dreamed about it, etc, nor could I remember the name, but I knew vaguely what it did. After a few frustrating minutes searching on google, trying different potential key words, trying to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.malcolmgroves.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}