Like many others, I was salivating at the thought of getting my hands on a new, faster search engine, and so I was impatiently waiting for Wednesday when Microsoft was scheduled to unleash Bing on the world. When it made Bing available on Monday instead, I leaped on the application and began running searches on the Web with little cries of joy. Those cries soon changed to gurgles of dismay — Bing is not yet ready for the big time. In fact, it isn’t ready at all.