Bing – as a search engine – How good is it?

I just did a comparison between Bing and Google on the same search parameters:

“Ernest Bywater”
Bing 122 hits and all but five from the USA
Google 1,820 with hits from all over the world.

“Ernest E Bywater”
Both showed only hits from my web site
Bing 1
Google 7

“Cazna Rochester” (an erotic author I know)
Bing 10
Google 294

OK, these aren’t common everyday searches, but you’d expect some sort of parity between them – not this wide a discrepancy between the two engines.

What do others think of Bing as a search engine?