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Re: Bing Is Live

#41

Post by axod »

encoderer wrote: post #5
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...

You don't win by being nearly as good as your competitor though.

Re: Bing Is Live

#42

Post by axod »

encoderer wrote: post #12
potatolicious wrote: post #8

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?

For me, the irritation is the panther thingy in the background on search results. It just looks like someone with no design sense found some clip art and decided to put it there.

Re: Bing Is Live

#43

Post by dmnd »

cubicle67 wrote: post #33
dmnd wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm in Australia, but using the 'show all' results (not the 'only from Australia' option), and freesound.org is #11. #1 is wiki.creativecommons.org/Free_​Sound_​Effects_and_​Loops

With market set to Australia, the logo says 'bing Beta'. It says 'bing preview' for the US. I guess it's not fully baked for non-US markets. I wonder if the advertising campaign is restricted to the US?

Re: Bing Is Live

#44

Post by encoderer »

axod wrote: post #41
encoderer wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

You don't win by being nearly as good as your competitor though.

Oh come on, it's day 1... I can't say Bing will gain traction or not. But, at the very least, on day one, it's the 2nd best search engine available.

Re: Bing Is Live

#45

Post by psyklic »

The search seems fine -- but the look/logo/UI is terrible. And come on, do they really need to spam the search pages with so many conspicuous advertisements that LOOK like the search results? If they want this product to stick, they need to make the search results stand out ...

Re: Bing Is Live

#46

Post by axod »

encoderer wrote: post #44
axod wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't win by being nearly as good as your competitor though.

Oh come on, it's day 1... I can't say Bing will gain traction or not. But, at the very least, on day one, it's the 2nd best search engine available.

The search results seem like pretty much the same as they have been for years. This is just a rebranding and some UI fluff as far as I can see. So yeah, it's day 1 for the new UI, but I was talking about quality of search results.

Re: Bing Is Live

#47

Post by thorax »

If I type "es_msg" into Bing I get exactly what I'd expect, the documentation for a function. When I type it into Google I get "did you mean tos_msg" which drives me batty. And the top two results are useless. The third result is correct.

Bing's "Help" is actually really nice and very fast (in Chrome). Or at least I found it easy to navigate through it.

Bing isn't indexing bug.gd error/solutions properly, though, so that's a bit frustrating.

Bing is definitely very fast. Sometimes felt faster than Google.

Re: Bing Is Live

#48

Post by potatolicious »

encoderer wrote: post #12
potatolicious wrote: post #8

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?

It's not spectacular - but (to me anyway) it communicates a cutesy friendliness - the squiggly fonts and child-like primary colors gives a sense of invitation to poke and pry at the system's abilities, and also conveys a sense of wonder.

The bing logo, on the other hand... the font is poorly chosen, IMHO the kerning is all wrong, it feels like something one would whip up in 10 minutes in Paint, not a professional logo. Furthermore, the choices of font gives me the feeling that they're trying to position this thing as hip and cool (hence the bistro comment), where the system is, as of yet, deserving of none such accolades.

Re: Bing Is Live

#49

Post by sker »

I don't know, I like it. Results are very on par with Google's. Interface is cleaner, now that Google has a rating system and a lot of other info/links per result.

Only thing I don't like is that I can only set 50 results per page, whereas with Google and Yahoo I can set 100.

I'm gonna set it as my homepage for a few days. That's the only way I'll be able to give it a try and come up with a judgment.

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