As I was surfing around the web yesterday, I stumbled across a banner ad that lead me to the Bing It On page. I tell you what, as a splash page, Bing has done all the right things to keep people there. I was interested…and not just because I could win something, but because I am an internet marketer. Search engine results matter to me. (I know, I’m a geek!)
Bing It On
For those of you who haven’t seen the Bing commercials, the setting is a typical street survey theme where a host stops random people and asks them to do a search online. Two results are displayed and they’re asked to choose which shows them the results they like best. And of course, every single one of those that Bing shows on their commercials chose Bing as their search engine of choice.
So I thought, of course everyone they spotlight on their own commercial is going to choose the Bing search results. Why would they show anyone who was choosing Google? So when I stumbled onto the actual Bing It On page, I was on a mission to prove a point. I wanted to see how accurate Bing’s commercials really are!
Five minutes later, here are my results: