71–80 of 121 posts
Overall it seems pretty decent - the results are quite different from Google on some queries, but not necessarily in a bad way, and it's just as fast.
While I realize in the long term, you will need localized data for wherever you live for queries to be more useful, if you want to get a test of the technological platform and how it differs from google, chances are you wont see many until you set it to US-mode.
Excellent stuff TBH, it does the job in a nice speedy way. 2 Issues. - the name is awful. really bad. I can "get" the inspiration ("bing and your search is done") but it clearly was a guy in a suit who likes to wave his hands about and yell WICKED alot who came up with it. Baaaaad. :) - the layout is a bit clunky. Huge graphic on the main page seems to serve no purpose. Will they be rotating that? ON the search resul…
Curiously, I searched for a youtube video and the Bing summary says
"Sorry for the interruption. We have been receiving a large volume of requests from your network. To continue with your YouTube experience, please enter the verification code below."
Has their spider been abusing Youtube.com?
If you were the marketing company and had 100MM to market this, what would you do?
not terribly impressed...
I really, really like it. I could actually see myself using this . 1. Super fast. 2. Image search is far superior to Google's. 3. Travel search is great. Try "deals to hawaii". 4. I like the name. Easy to remember and only 4 letters. 5. Weather searches work great. 6. I like the related searches and search history on the left. 7. I like the wikipedia integration.
What do you like about the Wikipedia integration? I don't see the value in republishing Wikipedia: http://www.bing.com/reference/semhtml/Melbourne?q=melbourne&...
The quality of normal results (the only ones I can get) is bellow Google.
Thoughts:
Bing shopping is much better than Froogle ever was. They are pushing the "cash back" program pretty hard, and it will probably gain some traction.
Bing Video really doesn't show much YouTube content. That gives a bunch different search results, which is kinda nice. The video preview is rather helpful. Bing airfare shopping is now going to be my first stop for airfare shopping. Really, really nice. Bing is now competing with Orbitz, Priceline, Kayak, and doing a great job at it.
Bing image search is okay. Image search sucks in general, but it's nice to have a third source for image searches (flikr being the other).
Bing maps are useable. Google maps is the clear winner.
Had anybody else aside from Microsoft just launched this product, it would have been nothing short of amazing. People here would be very excited. Google will still be #1, but at least now they have a serious competitor.
Microsoft just learned a whole bunch about making data centers and making server operating systems run in large clusters. That's going to influence their server OS game in a big way for the better.