Comments on: Why Bing is Useless in South Africa?

By: Christine

Christine — Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:51:00 +0000

I suspect, although I might be wrong, that the whole change to the Bing South Africa thing is related to the Yahoo/Bing merger.

By: JK

JK — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:11:00 +0000

Bing started off great! I liked the new interface and still do. It’s fresh and different from most other search engines… I used to go to Bing SA for searches all the time partly because I’m a MS fanboy, partly because I really like the new interface and partly for being an active user on Bing SA in order for MS to optimize and further build it. It was very sad to see Bing SA being removed… Google FTW!

By: ambience

ambience — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 23:05:21 +0000

Bing is useless. Why do they even exist when they can in no way compete with Google. For example, Google will index a new website in about 24 hours when bing takes months

By: Bryan Casson

Bryan Casson — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:21:20 +0000

I would not hold your breath. Maybe they will read all these complaints on the various blogs in SA and do something about it… that would be smart

By: Nick Duncan

Nick Duncan — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:09:09 +0000

I really struggle to understand why Microsoft would remove the option to display South African websites. There is absolutely no benefit in removing it..! Maybe we should give them the benefit of the doubt here… just maybe they are coming up with a better algorithm for displaying other countries ranks.. yeah right.

By: Bryan Casson

Bryan Casson — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:09:30 +0000

Very interesting

By: Bryan Casson

Bryan Casson — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:09:13 +0000

You are #2 Internationally when I looked and #1 locally…maybe you just jumped one space over night :)

By: Galen Schultz

Galen Schultz — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:43:12 +0000

Forget Bing - Google all the way. And Google.co.za ftw! It's now ranked as more popular than Google.com on Alexa! No.1

By: Robert Bravery

Robert Bravery — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 13:03:21 +0000

Yeah, just tried this. Searched for "Website Design and development" Got a whole bunch of non related international sites.

Did what you suggested, then only did I get SA site. My site listed on the second page.

Tried the same thing on Google.co.za and viola, many more SA sites listed. Mine at no 3. I did not even need to select pages from South Africa.

When I did select pages from South Africa, I did not see much difference in the SERP's, except that my site jumped to no 2 and that there were less pages in the results, 165 000 as opposed to 71 500 000.

Typing in Google.com directly always re-routes me to Google.co.za

I think Google is far far superior.