David Needle
SemanticWeb.com Contributor

InternetNews

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Is Bing better than Google? Do conversations lead to better search results? Is mobile search any good?

The answers to these questions came up for debate as a panel of tech heavyweights here at the Semantic Web conference weighed in on some of the most pressing concerns facing the search space.

Some panelists found themselves put on the spot for their opinion of a competitor, Microsoft’s Bing, the most recent arrival to the search scene.

In particular, Bing’s user interface received a good deal of attention. While Bing uses a standard search entry bar, portions of its site use different interfaces. For instance, the travel portion, which incorporates technology from Microsoft’s purchase of Farecast, starts with a reservation page.

Andrew Tomkins, chief search scientist at Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), said it wasn’t clear to him whether Bing should feature multiple interfaces for users, or a single interface, “and if that puts more burden on the search engine.”

Others suggested that Bing may be moving in the right direction.

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