It's not all the marketing hype that's gotten to me when it comes to Bing, Microsoft's upgraded search engine (er, excuse me, I mean: decision engine.) It's the quality of the results.

More and more, I'm starting to feel lucky whenever I use the search engine. Yesterday, I noticed that it indexed a blog post I wrote for BaltTech quicker than Google did. If Bing can do that consistently with blog posts, that's a win for it.

It's nice to see Bing integrating with Twitter and offering robust video and image search options. But its meat and potatoes will have to be raw, un-gimmicky search. News that it's going to offer Wolfram Alpha search results (which broke yesterday) is nice, but I doubt that that feature will mean that much to most users.

I can't even estimate how often I use Google in a day to search through news, blog posts, videos, and images. But Google -- which seemingly has ventured into all sorts of new businesses this year -- has a competitor on its home turf, IMO.

Now it's time for a poll: