The memes were excellent promotion for Bing being the place where you find uncensored results.
“Split-face” would immediately return the horrible accident (don’t Google it, really - and yes, pun intended), “Scientists” would actually return non-editorialized scientists… Microsoft could have been farther and marketed Google as the colourful kindergarten that you give your children access to, whereas journalists and researchers would use Bing. But they folded.
I use Bing everyday, via Ecosia. It's is amazing how far Bing has come. Overall I'd say that Bing is the better search engine today. The only consistent fail for me is when I forget the address of "The True Size Of" website (www.thetruesize.com), Bing refuses to find that URL, while it's the first result on Google. Other than that, Bing will find anything that Google does.
I used it, it's OK, not really any better overall. Slightly worse in some areas and slightly better in others
The problem seems to be that the incentives set up by Google flooded the web with low quality information
Also, some people probably LIKE some of the low quality information ... but I still think there was a fair amount of mismanagement