Microsoft Bing: The first real Google alternative  Microsoft's
new search engine, Bing, is the first real contender for the
Google crown. It does things a bit differently, not much that's
worse, and quite a bit that's better. Will it be enough?  Bing
front page   I rarely use Google. Or rather, I rarely use
Because Google is embedded into Safari, I just use the search
box there, which creates huge stickiness that's hard to
displace. Of course, Microsoft has the same option now for
embedding Bing into Internet Explorer, assuming it's allowed to
by the courts. But the very short amount of time I've spent with
Bing has me rethinking my search engine options seriously for
the first time.  I know a lot of people gush about Google's user
experience, and certainly there are a lot of nice things about
using it: speed, accuracy of results, and things like weather,
which give instant contextual results. But from an aesthetic
point of view I've found its minimalism to be on the drab side,
rather than the chic side. It's