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Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by 10ren »

Microsoft maps is surprisingly good: they have a "bird's eye" view for urban areas, which is startling close. It also doesn't lock up my eeePC after a few minutes, like Google maps does.

I was shocked that the top-left options feel exactly as if it was google to me (though they differ slightly). It's as though I thought that layout was owned (trademarked) by Google.

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Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by froo »

axod wrote: post #42
encoderer wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'm actually thinking there's room there to make UI improvements that would benefit the user.

For example, with the live id and being logged in, I think it would be neat if these background images eventually ended up being something relevant to me rather than something generic.

Right now, there is definitely room for improvement, but I wouldn't say it's downright bad.

Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by Elepsis »

For those of you who have clearly not used live.com in the past year and a half they've been doing this, there is no "nebula obsession" -- the photo changes daily along with the facts.

Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by SapphireSun »

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...

I noticed something interesting. When I searched for "google" it displayed _only_ google's homepage (there was a link below it to display similar results). I tried searching google for "bing" and "yahoo" and google shows the primary result in a highlight at the top of the page.

I dunno. In some ways, bing seems more aesthetically pleasing than google. I really liked the infinite image scroll as some others have mentioned.

Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by rarestblog »

donaq wrote: post #58

Searching for "linux download" on Bing turns up this as the #1 link: http://www.novell.com/linux/download_linux.html Trying the same thing on Google, however, I get this: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download HMMM...

Actually, for me it gives: #1 http://www.linux.com/download_linux #2 http://www.hungrypenguin.net/downloads.html (which lists a lot of Linux variants). #3 http://www.linux.org/dist/download_info.html there are also direct links to Linux Mint, X Os Linux, Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux.

Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by rarestblog »

endtime wrote: post #105
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.

freesound.org is the fourth result for me on Bing. I'm in California.

Seconded, fourth result. Seems that Bing's result pages aren't quite "static" (or "same") for all users.

Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by donaq »

jm4 wrote: post #109
donaq wrote: post #58

Searching for "linux download" on Bing turns up this as the #1 link: http://www.novell.com/linux/download_linux.html Trying the same thing on Google, however, I get this: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download HMMM...

So what? The algorithm obviously heavily weights search terms in a URL. I doubt this is some sort of conspiracy.

Me neither, especially since after that I did searches for database servers and web servers and they served up links to Apache and MySQL rather than IIS and SQL Server, but I thought it was an interesting contrast nonetheless.

Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by donaq »

rarestblog wrote: post #116
donaq wrote: post #58

Searching for "linux download" on Bing turns up this as the #1 link: http://www.novell.com/linux/download_linux.html Trying the same thing on Google, however, I get this: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download HMMM...

Actually, for me it gives: #1 http://www.linux.com/download_linux #2 http://www.hungrypenguin.net/downloads.html (which lists a lot of Linux variants). #3 http://www.linux.org/dist/download_info.html there are also direct links to Linux Mint, X Os Linux, Damn Small Linux and Puppy Linux.

That's peculiar. Are the results skewed according to the geographical location of the searcher, you think? I'm in Singapore.

Re: Bing Is Live

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Post by manvsmachine »

donaq wrote: post #58

Searching for "linux download" on Bing turns up this as the #1 link: http://www.novell.com/linux/download_linux.html Trying the same thing on Google, however, I get this: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download HMMM...

Makes sense. Ubuntu's currently the most popular distro and Google incorporates clickthrough into their recommendation metric IIRC . Even if Bing does too, it hasn't hadn't enough time for it to be a significant factor.
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