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**rasmasyean** · 06-13-2009

This is pretty good. An "assistive search engine". Descriptive context on the target page is pretty good too (not perfect but mostly pretty relevant). And it sometimes breaks the results into some categories which seems pretty intelligent. Front page theme discovery is pretty neat too for bored ppl.

You try the Bing image search? Instead of implementing a next/previous function, they did this smooth scrolling where it will retrieve up to like 1000 images or something. That's gotta be some bandwidth intensive feature though. But I guess M$ can handle that lol. I'm sure some older computers might blow up trying to load all those images into memory though. Heh How do you get image #1001???

Image search will take like 150 MB if you cache 1000 images. I think you will need the 64-bit computers with lots of RAM to use a lot of browsers. I thought only Apps will consume enough for 64-bit to matter. But it looks like the trend is making the browser a high footprint program now.

The "show similar images" function is pretty intelligent too and apparently makes a good attempt at "pattern recognition" if I'm guessing correctly.

The Video preview is pretty neat too and I think it wins over the google version on initial inspection.

I like how a mousover pop-up displays extra info and ("deep" links) of that page. That's pretty useful. But sometimes it detects old info like in a news feed site. And I think they should give you a setting to allow it to display a long version for the results so you don't have to mouse over. Like the "select view" buttons on Image Search.

One thing I think was kinda “hmmm…” is the News search. Apparently it only gives “recent” news and it doesn’t look like you can set it. I guess it’s useful if you don’t want to see old news...which is prolly the main idea behind it. In Google’s it gives you a bit older dates and would be better for research. But I suppose you can use the Web search for that too.

06-13-2009	#14 (permalink)
rasmasyean Vista Ultimate x64 210 posts	Re: To Bing or not to Bing? Hands on with Microsoft's new search This is pretty good. An "assistive search engine". Descriptive context on the target page is pretty good too (not perfect but mostly pretty relevant). And it sometimes breaks the results into some categories which seems pretty intelligent. Front page theme discovery is pretty neat too for bored ppl. You try the Bing image search? Instead of implementing a next/previous function, they did this smooth scrolling where it will retrieve up to like 1000 images or something. That's gotta be some bandwidth intensive feature though. But I guess M$ can handle that lol. I'm sure some older computers might blow up trying to load all those images into memory though. Heh How do you get image #1001??? Image search will take like 150 MB if you cache 1000 images. I think you will need the 64-bit computers with lots of RAM to use a lot of browsers. I thought only Apps will consume enough for 64-bit to matter. But it looks like the trend is making the browser a high footprint program now. The "show similar images" function is pretty intelligent too and apparently makes a good attempt at "pattern recognition" if I'm guessing correctly. The Video preview is pretty neat too and I think it wins over the google version on initial inspection. I like how a mousover pop-up displays extra info and ("deep" links) of that page. That's pretty useful. But sometimes it detects old info like in a news feed site. And I think they should give you a setting to allow it to display a long version for the results so you don't have to mouse over. Like the "select view" buttons on Image Search. One thing I think was kinda “hmmm…” is the News search. Apparently it only gives “recent” news and it doesn’t look like you can set it. I guess it’s useful if you don’t want to see old news...which is prolly the main idea behind it. In Google’s it gives you a bit older dates and would be better for research. But I suppose you can use the Web search for that too. Last edited by rasmasyean; 06-13-2009 at 07:23 PM..
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