Wired's Ryan Singel and Cnet's Rafe Needleman, neither one of whom is known to get giddy over tech, also gave Bing a qualified seal of approval. Like Sterling, Singel says .

But the service is far from perfect. Beautiful data mash-ups coexist side-by-side with perplexing interface choices that make it hard to find the best features. Meanwhile, actual search results were inaccurate in some cases, and disappointing overall in the local search category, one of the areas Microsoft hopes to make its biggest splash.

Rafe's overall conclusion? "."

See, this is what happens when you spend 25 years lowering peoples' expectations. Something that merely works as advertised is considered a breakthrough. Yet another brilliant marketing ploy by those renegades from Redmond.

I know what you're thinking. What's the catch? Well, this may be the catch. As of Bing's Quick Tabs feature: