Comments on: Microsoft Bing “decision engine” video tour

By: Heikniemi Hardcoded » At least try binging it

Heikniemi Hardcoded » At least try binging it — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:49:45 +0000

[...] now, and I recommend the same for you. You can get a search provider for both IE and Firefox from Long Zheng’s blog post. Also, if you’re not yet familiar with the advertised differentiation between a search and [...]

By: Donnie

Donnie — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:03:06 +0000

@Andy, actually the color scheme Bing is using is the same nearly the same as every major search engine. Try Yahoo, Ask, Excite, DogPile, and even Lycos to see very similar results. I’m no Microsoft fan but Bing does win in the internet Porn category. If you click on Bing Videos and search for a graphic term (such as “Sasha Grey”) you’ll get unsolicited access to hundreds and thousands of porn videos. The videos will play within the Bing frame and you will not be directed to the ’shady’ website, avoid ads and pesky pop-up windows.

It’s fairly interesting but this is going to be a big issue!

Another observation is try searching for “Vixta.” It’s a Linux distro and Bing will return the Vista home page as the first result, where all other engines return the Vixta source-forge page… Oh MS…

By: Insomniac

Insomniac — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:52:49 +0000

See this is just “live search” unless you live in USA.
Bing brings nothing new to us in Australia….

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Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:41:56 +0000

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By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:20:17 +0000

I can’t believe it; it looks exactly the same as Google, with an image in the top left. The header row options, the colors in use, the sponsored links boxes… you couldn’t clone Google any better if you used a screenshot. Why can’t Microsoft be innovative for a change, and think of their own layout?

By: damien

damien — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:14:39 +0000

Also, I just noticed something pretty cool about it: When i searched for “bike shops” in the “local section”, it listed the neighborhood of each shop. Pretty useful in a sprawling town like Los Angeles.

It does need a little bit of work, though. Some bike shops were categorized as “Grocers.” Huh?

By: Matt Sharpe

Matt Sharpe — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:12:13 +0000

@damien: it is for me too. And I see Long has created a Bing entry in the firefox add ons site!

By: damien

damien — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 08:09:43 +0000

I’m not sure if this is true for everyone, but Bing is live for me now using Safari on Mac, so it may be for you all too.

By: @mrmckeb

@mrmckeb — Sun, 31 May 2009 18:08:03 +0000

We agree on that — I too found Wave’s UI too… er… I’ll settle with just “crowded”. But then again, I was talking about its potential capabilities, not the looks — Gmail is no Miss World and I love it all the same.

By: someone

someone — Sat, 30 May 2009 08:12:11 +0000

Well the look is certainly cheerful and makes me feel “a large world” of information available to me (I feel insecure and depressed when using a search engine that makes me feel there’s lot more out there but it isn’t showing me everything), besides relevance is what would matter. It really has to succeed at helping me find more images in Image search than Google, the correct working rapidshare links of warez and “digital memories”, the kind of porn I’m looking for minus the spam in search results and discovering good new websites/blogs/forums/domains. And speed too. No Javascript bloating the page too much interactiveness, I want clean HTML-based result pages.