I checked out bing, the newly rebranded search service from microsoft, on a few searches today. I like what I see. The user experience was very clean and I see lot less spam and junk results when compared to google. I also like their thumbnail previews of the web pages and videos (is it legal fair use?). So may be there is still hope for microsoft in search market after all. Apparently I am not alone in having a positive experiene with bing.
Granted my initial reaction is based only a few searches, but my first impressions are surprisingly positive.