Bing v. Google Chatter

The NY post reported Sergey Brin is worried about Bing …

Surely Google has room for improvement and needs a little rattling to tune up its offering now that a competitor with some financial means to fight is in the game, and not just a startup they can roll over. The fact remains consumers don’t actually care about the features in Bing and have learned to distrust Microsoft for many good reasons. Much of the points in this article are inside baseball for techies that are entirely irrelevant to the actual market drivers. The whole basis of Bing is “me too, only a little bit better” and that bid is a dollar short and a day late from a company that rarely gets it right (with the exception of X-box it’s been been a pretty disastrous run). They immediately demonstrate that they don’t understand many of the consumer critical nuances for success — like making the search page have all sorts of weird misleading visual queues. I think Google has as much to worry about as Apple did with the iPod …