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Re: Bing Is Live

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Search: Conelly Show just the results for Conelly. 1. Connelly Skiis (I then click 'Show just the results for Conelly') 1. Connelly Skiis

Or the Connelly Skiis page is in the index under "Conelly" legitimately? (via text on the page or, most likely, the text of links pointing to it)

Re: Bing Is Live

#12

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…

Ok.. i'll bite... what's so spectacular about the Google logo?

Re: Bing Is Live

#13
post #2

Search: Conelly Show just the results for Conelly. 1. Connelly Skiis (I then click 'Show just the results for Conelly') 1. Connelly Skiis

Or the Connelly Skiis page is in the index under "Conelly" legitimately? (via text on the page or, most likely, the text of links pointing to it)

Fun to contrast with Google:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Conelly

Hey, look at that, it works.

Re: Bing Is Live

#14
Searched favorite obscure techno band. Returned Obscure Band homepage. Compare Google: returns wikipedia page. Damn, everything I love is going mainstream. Anyway, mildly impressed. Click top Bing result. Dead link. Accept Google's suggestion. Redirected to actual live page. The end.

PS: My girlfriend asked if it they called it 'bing' because it makes a 'bing' noise when you search. I laughed but then I thought this would be amusing. Anybody know how would I set about doing such a thing? I'm not a web coder.

Re: Bing Is Live

#15
Results vastly different from Google. I decided to compare the query I've just run in Google:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=creative+commons+sound+effects

http://www.google.com/search?q=creative+commons+sound+effect...

There's very little overlap in the first page results, and freesound.org, #1 in Google, doesn't even make Bing's first page.

Re: Bing Is Live

#16
it isn't intuitively different from Google, and that is a disappointment. I understand that they have done a bunch of UI stuff which is supposed to make it a better search service, but what exactly are these?

The hover-triggered contexts don't really provide me with much more than the summary below the title. Seems redundant.

The left navigation bar I thought was supposed to have a bunch of cool features. I'm only seeing my search history. That may be a nice to have, but it isn't a game changer.

The snow leopard is awful, and isn't that the Mac line of products?

Re: Bing Is Live

#17

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…

Microsoft's cash coffers give it a few exceptions to the "only one launch" rule. Cuil's total funding of $33M (crunchbase) is a third of Microsoft's marketing budget for Bing.

Re: Bing Is Live

#18

Results vastly different from Google. I decided to compare the query I've just run in Google: http://www.bing.com/search?q=creative+commons+sound+effects http://www.google.com/search?q=creative+commons+sound+effect... There's very little overlap in the first page results, and freesound.org, #1 in Google, doesn't even make Bing's first page.

I see freesound.org as the #1 for both engines.

Re: Bing Is Live

#19

Results vastly different from Google. I decided to compare the query I've just run in Google: http://www.bing.com/search?q=creative+commons+sound+effects http://www.google.com/search?q=creative+commons+sound+effect... There's very little overlap in the first page results, and freesound.org, #1 in Google, doesn't even make Bing's first page.

I see freesound.org as #1 on Bing. I'll be honest, though, the first two pages of results on Bing look as good -- or better -- than Google's results.

Re: Bing Is Live

#20
First thing I did as a good SEO nerd/startup CEO was to see how Bing treated http://www.dawdle.com - and I have to say I'm mildly impressed, but disappointed overall.

On the plus side for Bing, the hover-over shows the information we want the user to see, and manages to highlight our five most popular platforms. (Not the first five in our header, which is very impressive.) Google doesn't do the site links for us, even though we've obeyed their best practices. This is good for Bing.

But Bing doesn't do as well with restrictive searches - for example, Google does significantly better than Bing for a search on [dawdle.com] - Bing strips out the .com and treats it very similarly to a search on [dawdle], i.e. treating it as a dictionary term. The [dawdle.com] search on Google brings up a number of news/blog articles about the site.

Also, Bing utterly fails on e-commerce searching, even though they bought Jellyfish and are pushing Cashback heavily. I tried [dawdle zelda] on both, then clicked on "Shopping" for both. Here are the results:

http://www.google.com/products?q=dawdle%20zelda&oe=utf-8...

http://www.bing.com/shopping/search?q=dawdle+zelda&mkt=e...

I don't care what you say, a null set is just wrong. Now, yes, we do feed Google Product Search, but that's Microsoft's fault - they shut down the free feed test they had in favor of their paid Cashback search. Dawdle doesn't participate in Cashback, so they don't get a feed. But to fail on that search is crazy; it's on Shopping, and the user's inputted a product search term and indicated a store preference. Google gets this exactly right. (Bing should slurp the GPS feed anyway - the URL is indexable.)

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