A bing search for designing while intoxicated (no quotes required) brings up Rick's P'unk Avenue Window Blog post with that title as the #1 result, no muss no fuss no waiting.

A google search still brings up 500 other irrelevant things. Quote it and you get other pages that mention the phrase independently (fair enough), a whole bunch of pages that link to Rick's post (ooo-kay?), and... not Rick's post, ever, unless you add search terms to force it to look only at our site. Etc. I wrote about this problem ad nauseum already. The sitemap helped for a while, now it doesn't seem to be helping any more.

Ditto for svncampfire, a utility I wrote recently that pings svn repositories for new updates and notifies a campfire chatroom about them (*).

The creepiest result is a search for boutell sonnets. Google brings up my sonnets tag as the #2 result, after my LJ profile, which is okay. Bing brings up the sonnets tag as the #1 result, which is better. But Bing also adds a title:

"A New Sonnet Every Monday"

Whoa! Did somebody really go to the trouble to hand-tune that result? No, of course not. Their indexing system was clever enough to borrow it from a link on tommybgoode.com.

Other searches, some of them less self-serving, also suggest that Bing is doing a remarkable job so far. I'm going to switch to Bing for a week to whether I continue to feel that way. Google could use some serious competition.

(*) svncampfire's big attraction is that it uses the svn log command rather than a post-commit hook, so you can monitor an svn repository you don't run.

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