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So far, my first try with Bing was less than stellar: I got a flat tire on the way to the airport last week. Managed to get there on time anyway, but now I need new tires before I head home. So I tried using Bing to search for "discount tires in Torrance CA" and the results were useless. Then I tried "where to buy discount tires in Torrance CA" and got "reasonable" hits, but nothing better than Google. Perhaps because I'm connected from an IP address in Korea Bing is not trying to use localization, but I was expecting more than what I was seeing before from MSN Search and it just appears to be the same so far.
In any case, since I'm really hoping that somebody, anybody, will give Google a run for their money, I will play around with Bing a little while longer before I give up on it. However, I think its a mistake for Microsoft to bring it out early if it's not ready to live up to the announcement hype. I think most people will try it once and if it's not significantly different than Google, they will just go back to the "standard."
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