First full week using Bing.com0

So, here are a few random notes about my first week using Bing.com as my default search engine:

1) They fixed the issue with allinurl.

2) It correctly returned most API functions I searched for this week – I needed lots of PHP queries to fix a phpBB installation for a customer, then Prototype.JS for another customer and of course all my Perl experiments which required API function search cheat sheet(I feel anxious that all my $50 reference books are just sitting idle collecting dust, what a waste of money – NEVER buy reference books, buy only the timeless ones).

3) Their image search is really nice. Active/smart pagination is smooth and the results are definitely not Cuil-ish(nothing personal, Cuil).

4) Alexa has it that Bing.com is gaining ranks quickly, but they still seem to be around position 1000 in traffic. I have seen a few Bing.com referrals on customer’s sites but in proportion to Google referrals they are still very low.

5) The Miserable Failure bomb still works on Bing.com …

6) Bing.com’s 10 highest “PR”(or whatever their concept of a PageRank may be) are :
tv.adobe.com
www.adobe.com
www.flickr.com
www.google.com
www.w3.org
www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer
www.adobe.com/downloads
www.statcounter.com
www.php.net
www.apple.com/contact

Note 1: Sometimes www.apple.com/contact would alternate with www.apache.org for 10th place.
Note 2: Apparently, unlike Google, Bing.com doesn’t think Yahoo.com is PR 100%…

7) Bing.com index size: There are apparently 11.2 billion pages on Bing.com’s index. – I couldn’t find a search which returned more than 11.5 billion. If you do, it’d be really nice if you shared it with us on the comments form. I’ll give credit to whoever is able to craft a search on Bing.com that returns the highest ammount of results. At this time the search which returns most results is :

a | b

Returns 11.2 to 11.5 billion results.