BillyS - 2:54 pm on Sep 17, 2009 (gmt 0)

I am starting to lean towards Bing as having better, more relevant results on the whole than Google or Yahoo.

In my niche, there are truly significant problems with Bing. I've posted examples on this forum as well as Bing's webmaster forum. I see the same site taking the first 6 places for a search and the results are junk. This is a VERY competitive niche with a lot of incentive to get to the top.

We get about five referals a day from Bing - mostly from countries outside of the US. This makes no sense based on our content.

We've inquired about possible penalties and we've been told we need more links. When we look in their webmaster tools, we're all green. We've got hundreds of quality link over the past five years.

For Google and Yahoo we hear stories about penalties - and here there is agreement on penalties with the webmaster and SE. Bing is the only SE that we know of that cannot provide any direction as to why a site might not rank (for their own trademarked name). We've been told repeately there is no penalty, so we can only conclude Bing has problems that other SEs have since resolved.