Microsoft’s new search engine called Bing has been launched too early in my opinion. It has long way to go before it can even be considered as a serious search engine or even compete with Google. Bing has some serious problem with the search results if it cannot find a website’s url when the website has already been indexed.

To test the Bing search engine when it was launched in the beta phase I searched for Gauson.com in the search box. I knew that Microsoft’s Live search had some problem with finding the exact url address of some websites. Now that the Bing is no longer in beta phase the problem still persists. Microsoft may have changed the packaging and made few improvements but the verdict is that Bing needs many more changes in order to provide good relevant search results.

Microsoft may want to take few notes from Google where webmasters have control over the way the search engine indexes the website.

It’s been a while since I have been actively developing sites for pligg or involved in the pligg forum. Recently I received a request to make a pligg template for the new pligg version 1 release candidate by a friend of mine. I had received an email sometime back about the new pligg release, but never tried it out till few days ago.

The pligg release candidate is a step up from the previous version but as many other scripts it needs more work to iron out the bugs. It has been a slow and steady improvement in features and modules, and some really good modules are available for purchase from the pligg pro shop for the new version but you really need a stable version before you might want to spend money on those modules. I just hope the developers of pligg bring out a stable version 1 soon, as it’s been a couple of months since they released the candidate versions.

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