Also, I am surprised at the incorrect facts that are displayed in this article. Bing had incorporated Facebook and Twitter results well before Google introduced Google+. It was Google’s response to moves made by the Microsoft-Facebook partnership. If In fact, Googles integration with Google+ as well as the forced data-tracking without opt-out provision that is being met with increasing codemnation and suspicion.

Why? Well, Google was accurate but isnt anymore because they weight their algos according to who pays the most, first, then who says what about your site on Twitter and Facebook, second. So, asking a question of Google gets you an answer to a question that you never asked nor wanted.

I have tried – and everyone should for themselves – this with various sites, even those run by web site designers who know how to put together proper meta tags and words on their site, to hook into reciprocal linking without looking like link farming and so on but I picked sites that I know, not necessarily those known by everyone. In Yahoo and Bing, certain top of the ranks sites didnt even figure in the first 10 pages of Google results meaning that the person running that site who may wish to make income from it has little chance of a “click by” “web surfer” hitting their target. however, if that same site is willing to pay Google A$10,000 or more then they WILL, without fail, be top of the charts. The same site on Bing and Yahoo can be top of the search list on the same phrase search or even within the first or second pages.

The above is why I am informing all my I.T. clients to replace their default search provider with Bing or Yahoo (even though they are the same thing, they arent to a lot of people) and forget Google. Google, while being the monstrosity that Microsoft used to be, these days, is much like choosing your favourite OS. You want Windows because you have used it all your life and dont know anything about Macs so you shy away from Macs for that reason. The odd part is that it in search engines, it is the Mac equivalent (Bing, Yahoo) that you should be using, the Microsoft version. You ask a question you get an answer there, not an answer to something you never asked or wanted!