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Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by seshagiric » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:36 AM UTC

its a huge improvement over previous live search. One more to add to my 'search sources':

google, wikipedia and now bing.

Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by dmnd » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:38 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.

A sidebar does not make the UI terribly more complex. Google even added one, but it's hidden behind a 'Show options' link by default.

And a pretty photo versus the occasional Google Doodle is just a matter of taste. I like the photo myself.

Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by greendestiny » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:42 AM UTC

endtwist wrote: post #19

cubicle67 wrote: post #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.

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.

I see 5 results from creativecommons.org as the top in bing, but thats as an Australian. When you switch it to US, its freesound. Even as US bing shows 3 results from dvguru that appear to be spam. It also shows 3 results from creativecommons, 2 of which appear to be somewhat un-useful, and the 1 other useful one appears on both google and bing.

I'd definitely call that search a win for google. There are far more useful sources of creative commons sound effects in google's first page.

Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by donniefitz2 » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:43 AM UTC

It's not bad. It's worth trying out anyway and appears to be much better than the previous Live search.

Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by pj » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:43 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.

Yeah, it's exactly the same results as from Live. No wonder they are spending $100 Million to advertise it. From what I have seen of it thus far, it's the same old search with a new url and a new skin.

Big disappointment...

Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by judegomila » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:44 AM UTC

There suggestions sucks and its full some basic UI issues.

Whats the obsession with nebula?

The image searcher is decent though.

Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by davidw » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:45 AM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #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…

> because it makes a 'bing' noise when you search.

I can't help thinking of the Monty Python sketch about "The Machine that goes 'Ping'".

Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by cowmoo » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:46 AM UTC

Did anyone else who is using FF3 on Windows Vista w/ Flash Debugger installed get crashes when you try to mouse-over a video preview on a music video/artist search?

I think the issue is caused by improper exception handling in the way that Bing's video preview tries to retrieve frames of preview thumbnails, but it can't find any for the source. The QA might not have caught it with a release version of Flash, but it's an issue for web dev's with the debugging version of Flash player. I know that Bing is in "preview" edition, but someone should file the bugs with Microsoft.

Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by jsz0 » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:48 AM UTC

zaidf wrote: post #10

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

In fairness did you search for question mark, door, question mark, question mark?

Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jun 01, 2009, 5:49 AM UTC

endtwist wrote: post #19

cubicle67 wrote: post #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.

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.

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