Microsoft's UK search lead Paul Stoddart has suggested that
Bing is the Apple of the
search market.
He said, "What you could argue at the moment based on what
people are telling us is that Bing is almost the Apple of the
search world - it is actually kind of cool. It is a little bit
different, it is cool, it does get you great results."
Stoddart said in an interview with
Techradar that he thinks Microsoft's search engine could do
things better than Google. "[Google has] provided the best-of-breed
service for a very long time, however, things have moved on, and
that's not to say that people can't come in and do things
differently and in some cases better."
His comments come shortly after Microsoft's partner group
manager Simon Aldous was reprimanded for saying
Windows 7 borrowed from Mac OS X for its design. Microsoft said
in an official blog, "An inaccurate quote has been floating around
the internet today about the design origins of Windows 7 and
whether its look and feel was "borrowed" from Mac OS X.
Unfortunately, this came from a Microsoft employee who was not
involved in any aspect of designing Windows 7."
The Bing search engine officially
came out of beta in the UK today, and was launched across the
country.