Bing Is Live

#1

Post by jasonlbaptiste » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 4:56 AM UTC

Bing Is Live
bing.com

Re: Bing Is Live

#2

Post by dbul » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:04 AM UTC

Search: Conelly

Show just the results for Conelly.

  1. Connelly Skiis

(I then click 'Show just the results for Conelly')

  1. Connelly Skiis

Re: Bing Is Live

#3

Post by oldgregg » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:04 AM UTC

Well at least they are not trying to copy google by having a simple UI. The horsehead nebula will not rescue microsoft search.

What a disappointment.

Re: Bing Is Live

#4

Post by pg » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:08 AM UTC

Too noisy. With all the extraneous stuff on the page, I keep misreading the name as Bling.

Fast though. At least they understand that much about why Google won.

It's funny to think that after all the engineering expertise that must have gone into this, they're going to lose because of UI design.

Re: Bing Is Live

#5

Post by encoderer » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:14 AM UTC

oldgregg wrote: post #3

Well at least they are not trying to copy google by having a simple UI. The horsehead nebula will not rescue microsoft search. What a disappointment.

Actually... i took it thru some paces... search some obscure mysql error messages, python function names, my name, unit conversions, etc..

The results are exactly what I expect, as good (or nearly so) as Google.

The only exception being advanced query syntax: wildcards in phrases, the ".." range operator, etc. But that's something I can forgive on day 1...

Re: Bing Is Live

#6

Post by mattdennewitz » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:14 AM UTC

the homepage is nasty, and the search results page looks like the default spam 'search' page a domain squatter uses. the hover-triggered contexts, though, are pretty fantastic.

Re: Bing Is Live

#7

Post by jrnkntl » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:15 AM UTC

Am I the only one seeing a Snow Leopard as the background image?

Re: Bing Is Live

#8

Post by potatolicious » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:17 AM UTC

Logo is well and truly terrible. It communicates nothing and belongs on a the sign of a crappy downtown bistro than a professional web app.

Functionally it's disappointing. The context and use case-sensitive thing that is hinted at in the preview video seems almost entirely absent. The preview vid suggested that they will aggregate hotel information, flight information, etc, to create a grander unified experience - I have not seen any of this. Searching for hotels in a city doesn't give me anything except your traditional search results.

The categories are well thought out - but undifferentiated from Google's search term suggestions as it is.

Sadly, this launch seems a bit like the cuil launch - functionally incomplete, but in the web world you really only get one launch.

Re: Bing Is Live

#9

Post by dmnd » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:19 AM UTC

jrnkntl wrote: post #7

Am I the only one seeing a Snow Leopard as the background image?

The background images are different for different markets. http://www.bing.com/?mkt=en-us http://www.bing.com/?mkt=en-uk

Re: Bing Is Live

#10

Post by zaidf » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:19 AM UTC

This is what my first query returned: http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/5466/query1.jpg