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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…
I really like the bird's eye view that they offer with their maps. It is much more detailed and usable than the normal satellite view. You can rotate the view 90 degrees to get 4 different angles of the location and it zooms in close.
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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_(search_engine)
http://www.bing.com/reference/semhtml/Kumo_(search_engine)?q...
(looks like the May 27 version)
+ Nice to see MS actually start to working with open source.
+ They've learned from Google.
+ The representation of image search results is good.
+ Video search is also good.
- The name doesn't really rock.
- MS still has to learn a bit about simplicity.
- Search results are still same as bad old live?
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.
A search for 'bing' does not return Bing itself, at least not in the first 4 pages. Interesting.
the 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.
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...
Wow. I just spent the last hour noodling around for different stuff, searching for air fares, doing some shopping on Bing. It's actually really pretty nice. 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…