Personally, I don't find bing results "very poor". It does the job for well over 90% of my searches, and on the remaining 10%, Google doesn't do a much better job very often.
I like the UI, I like the rewards system, and the video/image search is actually better than Google for me. Just throwing out an alternative datapoint.
AFAIR in blind tests people found bing results on par with Google.
Empirically, I think for the English web it works OK, but for non-english it sucks compared to google.
I like the UI, I like the rewards system, and the video/image search is actually better than Google for me. Just throwing out an alternative datapoint.