As some will probably know I have a conviction that Bing search engine capabilities are not quite in the same league as Google's. In fact I believe that Bing is far behind in some areas.

One such area is the decoding of search phrases into meaningful words and somehow guessing the intent of the human searcher.

Google IS Search and it often does an uncanny job of decoding the intent of the searcher, while at the moment Bing does a good job of pretending to do search. I know (or hope) that this will change as the Bing engine gets better in the future, but at the moment, that is what my tests tell me. (You can see my original Bing vs Google article here: Bing Bong your Rankings Gone).

In the article, I said that Bing search sucks and maybe that was a bit harsh but looking at the example below makes me clench my jaw with frustration.

Sense to Google can be Nonsense to Bing

I was looking for a website with info on South African Sectional Title Law (a site that we built BTW). The website name is www.sectionaltitleact.co.za.
So I tried this search in Bing (the entire URL):  www.sectionaltitleact.co.za

And this is what Bing sends back : Nothing!

 
Then I tried the same search in Google and Oh Joy! out comes the most perfectly useable set of results (see below).

The essential point I am making is that Google has the smarts to read and decode the text from the URL. It has intelligently split the word “sectionaltitleact” into meaningful pieces and has realized that the phrase "sectional  title" means something to us humans. In software terms this results represents a huge amount of work that has gone into the recognition on the pattern in the phrase. This is work that Bing still has to bring to market before it can hope to match Google in anything other than marketing budget.