I took it through the paces.
As usual, it is good at finding queries where not many pages apply.
But for competitive search terms, they don't sort the it right.
Better than Live though... give it 5 more years.
Bing Is Live
31–40 of 121 posts
Re: Bing Is Live
#32Results 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.
[deleted]
Re: Bing Is Live
#33Results 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.
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
Re: Bing Is Live
#34Well 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.
Yeah, it's exactly the same results as from Live. No wonder they are spending $100 Million to advertise it. From what I have seen of it thus far, it's the same old search with a new url and a new skin. Big disappointment...
The core algorithm is the same as Live's, but there is more to a search engine than ten blue links. Did the marketing actually say it was a whole new algorithm/indexer?
It'll be interesting to see if the extraneous features catch on or not. The treatment of large companies is nice: http://www.bing.com/search?q=fry%27s
Re: Bing Is Live
#35Am I the only one seeing a Snow Leopard as the background image?
no
Re: Bing Is Live
#36If you were the marketing company and had 100MM to market this, what would you do?
Re: Bing Is Live
#37This is what my first query returned: http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/5466/query1.jpg
Works ok for me:
http://www.bing.com/search?q=ijigg&go=&form=QBLH
(I'm running FF 3.0.10 on ubuntu...)
Re: Bing Is Live
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, it's exactly the same results as from Live. No wonder they are spending $100 Million to advertise it. From what I have seen of it thus far, it's the same old search with a new url and a new skin. Big disappointment...
The core algorithm is the same as Live's, but there is more to a search engine than ten blue links. Did the marketing actually say it was a whole new algorithm/indexer? It'll be interesting to see if the extraneous features catch on or not. The treatment of large companies is nice: http://www.bing.com/search?q=fry%27s
Well, .. I'll give it a second look. Maybe they know it'll take $100 Million to explain why it is better to people, including me. I can accept that possibility.
Re: Bing Is Live
#39The input box seems to be covering the region filter (using FF3.0 on linux) for non US versions.
Re: Bing Is Live
#40Seems to provide, more or less, the same results as Google on the searches I tested.
Seems to provide less search options/customiations than Google. (unless I'm missing it?)
Lacks moderation of search results. (hide/promote/comments)
Seems to lack a separate category for searching news.
Video search with hover-play thumbnails is nice but no description?
The links to MSN & Live at the top amuse me for some reason.
Overall it seems to be a good replication of where Google was about 2 years ago. I'd say when they set it as the default homepage in Windows a lot of people will continue to use it since it's "good enough"