A lot of searchers are still conditioned to begin all web browsing at Google, and Microsoft knows that its crucial that Bing is easily found. So, you can imagine their angst at seeing the following in a search for Bing:

Yep, the second result for Bing suggests searchers might wan to stick with Google for a while. Now, if you read the snippet, youll see why we even got to this situation"a power outage last Friday temporarily took out Bings Travel site.

Apparently, Googles spider has been on vacation since then:

Notice, Google hasnt re-indexed the page since July 4th! Do you smell a conspiracy theory? Since when does it take Google that long to revisit a site as popular as Bing?

Bing employees may not be crying foul, but theyre disturbed enough to send a public tweet to Google.

Its kind of hard to puff up your chest and go cap in hand at the same time, dont you think?

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