Well, that's a good thing, imho. I'm sure there's a lot of people in Microsoft giving a sigh of relief over the progress of Bing.
Hopefully, it'll mean that Microsoft might put back some of that profitability into Bing.

Hopefully they will be able to do some major ass hauling on their search engine to make a much bigger index. I like using Bing when I can't get an exact answer from G, but the smaller results pile usually helps me find what I need quickly.

Maybe losing part of Yahoo (potentially all of Yahoo) will reverse this.

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I dunno. Bing has always been profitable for me in that leads and visitors coming from Bing seem to be a bit different (ie. Willing to participate, pay, or buy). Happy to hear it was their turn to see profit.

(Early adopter of Bing. I don't use G at all for personal and only have it on a separate machine to see what G actually displays ... and most times I am neither impressed or satisfied ... but that's a different topic, of which there are several here in the google threads!)

Maybe now they will no longer find it necessary to crawl each and every one of my pages 3x a day from msnbot, bingbot & their covert posing-as-a-browser UA.

@keyplyr , heck, I always thought that was because they loved me! :)

Bing actually honors crawl rate. Have you tried that?

No I don't use crawl rate in robots.txt, I control it server-side but it's not the speed it's the amount. Pretty much accustomed to it by now though. I just mentally deduct 1k page hits every day.

For me Bing has been a better search engine for the last two years.

Been Binging it for an entire year now and it's okay. At least I can find what I'm looking for there. I still use Google once in a while tho', like if I need to look up a phone number or something.

I don't care much for Bing's start page, so I designate one of my own.