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, the UI is just as simple as Google's. They just put a pretty picture on there too.
Bing Is Live
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Re: Bing Is Live
#62If you were the marketing company and had 100MM to market this, what would you do?
Hire a better designer?
The logo doesn't look that cool to me.
There are lot of unwanted random stuff in the UI. Not clean.
Re: Bing Is Live
#63Searching 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...
"web broswer download" on Bing gives chrome, opera, flock, safari and firefox.
Hmmm...
Re: Bing Is Live
#64Earlier 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 didn't understand your comment until I enabled Javascript for the occasion and found that they use photos. And corny ones, too; I'm looking at "Hot air ballons over Cappadocia" (I still don't get the "panther thingy"; maybe because I'm in Germany). Makes no sense at all to me - why would they want to do that?
Re: Bing Is Live
#65The snippets from large sites such as IMDB and Amazon, are simply fantastic. Far better than Google.
Re: Bing Is Live
#66If you were the marketing company and had 100MM to market this, what would you do?
$100 million is apparently the marketing budget 'magic number' to prove you're serious relaunching your search engine... and has been for 10 years. From October 1999:
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1040-231154.html
"Internet investment firm CMGI plans to spend more than $100 million on a 12-month advertising campaign that trumpets major changes aimed at transforming its AltaVista Web directory into a top-tier portal player, sources say."
Alas, the ad blitz didn't do much to revive AltaVista, and it won't be the size of the marketing campaign spend that determines what happens for Bing.
Re: Bing Is Live
#67Excellent 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 results page the list is offset from the left. That feels wrong (might just be due to google habit) and hard to scan. Also the results column could be wider.
Other than that - seems usable!
Re: Bing Is Live
#68If 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.
Re: Bing Is Live
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 didn't understand your comment until I enabled Javascript for the occasion and found that they use photos. And corny ones, too; I'm looking at "Hot air ballons over Cappadocia" (I still don't get the "panther thingy"; maybe because I'm in Germany). Makes no sense at all to me - why would they want to do that?
Ah. In the UK we get a crappy clipart snow leopard. Looks terrible.