In the world of competitions, Microsoft has been attempting to promote their own search engine, and had persuaded Firefox to release a "Firefox Bing" version with Microsoft Bing pre-set as default for search.

The promotion apparently didn't get very far ...

I'm not surprised. My favourite online map used to be Multimap. Clear maps, easy to scroll, good search facilities. When they introduced the satellite view the pictures were much clearer than Google and you could zoom in closer to find a location. They also had an aerial view which served much the same purpose as Google Street view before Google got in on the act which was also easier to navigate than Street view.

Then MS acquired them and integrated it with Bing and things went downhill. The mapping was poorer and less clear, the search box was almost hidden, the satellite view seemed to deteriorate, so I gave up on them. I now use Google, not as good as the old multimap but better than Bing.