Lots of reviewers, pundits and even Dancing with the Stars king Steve Wozniak already have weighed in with what they think about Microsoft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new Bing search engine. But what about Microsoft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s search rivals \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and specifically its former takeover target, Yahoo?<\/p>\n
Late last week, I had a chance to talk to Prabhakar Raghavan, head of Yahoo! Search Strategy, about his impressions. (Given that a number of industry watchers believe Bing will take search share from Yahoo more than Google, Yahoo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s take on Microsoft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new engine was especially relevant, in my opinion.)<\/p>\n
Raghavan was upfront that he had only seen Bing demos and screen shots and not actually used the Bing test site. Same here, I told him. As Microsoft has started rolling out Bing to the public today, June 1, those of us who weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t among Microsoft\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s chosen few now can start trying it, too.<\/p>\n