A WebmasterWorld thread is having discussion around a new Wired story named Microsoft Says Decaffeinated Bing Tastes as Good as Google. The story basically has Microsoft claiming they aren’t necessarily better than Google but they are as good as Google on freshness and search quality.

Here are some quotes:

Easy enough for a blogger like me to test. I wrote about Bing’s mobile SEO stance (which I think rocks) about 15 minutes ago. A few minutes after writing it, I searched the title tag of the article in both Google and Bing. Google returned the story in both Google News and Web Search at the top of the page. Bing, even 15 minutes later, didn’t have the story in their index. Here are screen shots:

Google:

Bing:

At about 20 minutes after publishing the story, Bing has indexed it. Compare that to Google indexing the new story in seconds.

What do you think? Take my poll:

Is Bing As Fast As Google When Indexing New Content

Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.