Tell me about it. I denied one range of their IPs that was hammering here and now I see they have chosen to bring on a new army to hammer us under a different IP so I just denied all of those too. Do they really expect to get the web indexed by being so aggressive?
There used to be a lot of faithful people using Bing and there are also some people who hate Google for whatever reason so Bing is a good alternative.
Bing is actually my default search engine since a couple of years.
I started using it because I was curious how well (or not well) it worked.
Especially in the beginning I ended up at Google anyway because I couldn't find what I was looking, but that never happens anymore.
The Google interface is cluttered with all sorts of information that I don't want.
While the Bing results are pretty clean the way Google's results once were.
Another issue with Bing is a lot of web owners that can block IPs will tend to block MSN because of their China bots which index sites in an unethical way opening dozens of connections at a time. This means that the results you get in the search may not include some sites.