Yes, you were correct in that I wondered if others didn’t use Bing. What they were showing was cool, especially for those like myself who find value in Bing Webmaster Center. The room was very “staid.”

Alan, in all fairness, the tools have been live at least a year, since Bing launched. However, they did decide to build a new Webmaster Center from scratch. The trend and indexing data that will be available will provide a huge insight into one’s SEO scorecard with their algos. BUT, we have to wait.

I so agree they are “stuck” in how much to share, best ways to proceed. Given their audience, SEOs, it would be best to break loose from the apron strings of corporate speak and delve into innovation with some enthusiasm and real “transparency.”

Overall, corporate speak resulted in little enthusiasm. Yusuf Mehdi, at the SMX Keynote that morning said, “Oh, I almost forgot to mention…” Such announcement of a new toolset as an after-thought isn’t going to go viral.

I look forward to what they will roll out this summer, waiting impatiently.

As much as I despise Google’s approach of rolling things out left and right without proper testing or insight, at least they don’t take decades to roll out useful tools like GWT!