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As we start August, I note that I have just completed month 2 of my Bing Challenge. I still use Bing as my primary search engine. Do I still use Google? Sure, from time to time. But I am getting nice results with Bing.

This afternoon I did a search that is a good case for Bing. We needed to go to Sport Authority (sporting goods store) for something so I entered the words Sports Authority in my Firefox search bar.

Here is my result on Bing:

The same search on Google:

Both are smart enough to know I am searching for a store and not some guru who knows his sports trivia. But Bing gives me a map with all the closest stores to my location. The Carmel Mountain store is closest to me so I click the details link to get to this page:

I now have directions, a phone number and (if I scroll down a bit, not pictured) the latest ratings from users who have been to this store and are complaining or praising it.

So, I’ll continue to use Bing, not because it is from Microsoft or because it is not from Google but because it works for me. I still love my Gmail and my Open Office and Firefox. Figure out what works best for you.

Sidebar: I mentioned this in the comments of my other post but it is worth repeating here. If you are a firefox user (and you should be) be sure to pick up this Greasemonkey script that puts Twitter search along side Bing results.
http://blog.mikedavidsmith.com/2009/06/twitter-searchad-blocker-greasemonkey-script-for-bing/. This is worth doing even if you are not a Twitter user.