If you were the marketing company and had 100MM to market this, what would you do?
give them over to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and help poor kids in Africa. Bing is embarassing.
Bing Is Live
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#82I 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.
After using it for a few hours, I second that.
1. Similar quality of results.
2. Superior image search. Actually, I think Google's image search is a result of them being on top for so long, it's been the same for years with little improvement. I mean, just look at Bing's.
3. Better video search. I love the hover-preview feature. I can see Google implementing it next year after some other mainstream sites implement it and it's no longer a "Bing thing."
4. Slightly cleaner interface. Let me show you: http://r.im/1rf7 http://r.im/1rf8 Bing has a line-height of 130% which makes it a little more readable in my opinion. Sure it has more clutter in some areas, but the search results are cleaner and that's what matters to me when I'm scanning through them.
I don't use maps, travel, health, etc., so I can't comment on them, but so far I'm very pleased with the results. I didn't think Microsoft could pull it off and they did.
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#83If 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…
When I type es_msg into Google I too get the "did you mean" link, but the top result is the same as the Bing result. Yes, Bing does feel really fast, but it's not like I've often felt like I was waiting too long for a Google result.
I mean the "Did you mean" top two results-- it gives me two results about "tos_msg" which are useless for the particular query and mess me up pretty much every day on other queries.
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#84Too 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.
Fast though. At least they understand that much about why Google won.
MS is using Akamai as the CDN to deliver search results, hence it is fast.
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#85Too 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.
Which part of the UI design didn't you like? The background image?
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#86Too 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.
I personally like the way they integrated the "advanced" search box in the results page. It actually makes it easy to do an advanced search. Neither Yahoo nor Google has this.
Combined with the impressive speed, I think it stands a chance.
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#87Doesn't work in Konqueror 3.5.10.
Google does :)
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#88the 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.
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#89Here's a quick GreaseMonkey script to "fix" the results page layout for chronic Google addicts:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50649
Basically moved the results more against the left side and the "aside" bar is moved to the right.
Layout may be a little touchy as I did this more for demonstration than anything else.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
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&...
I'm not in the USA and I can't get any Wikipedia integration ("deals to hawaii" does nothing special either). Your link works though. The quality of normal results (the only ones I can get) is bellow Google.
I could try it, using a vpn, from the US and outside the US.
From the US you get powerset-like answers to questions like "president of x".