To Bing or not to Bing? Hands on with Microsoft's new search

Thanks Slimy. Interesting. Still have the coming soon sign at the site.

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hummm..another BING website?:huh: i guess it was Gates try at the original....sigh
 

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Doesn't really matter what it's called. If it does what the preview video says it does and does it well, I and many others will use it.

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Microsoft has unveiled Bing, the rebranding of its Live Search service. Ars takes Microsoft's latest attempt to grab search market share for a spin and discovers much to like—and some frustration.

Full Story: http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/05/hands-on-with-microsofts-new-search-to-bing-or-not-to-bing.ars

---THANK YOU for the info---I personally prefer not to have any search-bar into my browser!---(wish I could vaporize it with a lazer)---so, maybe I will not be doing the 'bada-bing-bada-bam thing since I do prefer to use other independent search sites on my homepage---(no offense intended at M/S)---

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Got to say i'v been converted.

Its now my default search engine and start page. I used to use google but i think Bing even though its classed as a beta, looks nicer and is easier to use with video previews etc.
 

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I still prefer google, easier interface and classic search and image pages, etc...:)
 

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bing got homepaged by me :).
it's a good google replacer.
i'd like to continue my search with it till i spot some significant flaws comparing with google.
 

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Sounds like you're liking it (for the most part).

Just wait; Bing, Windows 7... what's next?
 

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I like Bing. It saves previous searchs on the left. There is no retyping the search again. The videos playing with having only to click on it is great. Pictures enlarge by putting the cursor on top of it. Generally speaking, it is easier than Google. I will stick with Bing.
 

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Yeah, I've been a big fan of the picture/image search and the saved searches as well. Video search is actually pretty good as well

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I like what I see thus far.
 

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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.
 
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Just a comment (FWIW)...

I used Bing to search for an address (I'm looking for property right now)...got a map and a superpages listing for a business that was once run there, but no information on the property itself.

Drop the very same address into Google, and I have several Real Estate company's listings of the property, including last price sold, current asking price, basically everything I was looking for.

Perhaps this is just me using it the wrong way...but, for now, I'll probably stick to Google. ;)

My Best,

Michael
 

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I guess it depends on specific queries. They clearly have different algorithms.

I did a search on another forum I frequent.
"rasmasyean site:Pcworld.com"

Bing: 203 hits
Google: 1 hit
 

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Just a comment (FWIW)...

I used Bing to search for an address (I'm looking for property right now)...got a map and a superpages listing for a business that was once run there, but no information on the property itself.

Drop the very same address into Google, and I have several Real Estate company's listings of the property, including last price sold, current asking price, basically everything I was looking for.

Perhaps this is just me using it the wrong way...but, for now, I'll probably stick to Google. ;)

My Best,

Michael


every search engine has it own pros and cons. i never expect certain one to win in all aspects. Judging the a search engine just by one example is clearly not proper.
For many times, Bing acts like a big time saver for me while google fails to do the same job. And, also, sometimes only google gives the best answer... now i use both of them: when Bing doesn't give me a satisfying result, i resort to google. :party:

(Just for an eye candy, i personally think Bing's main page is much more beautiful to conquer my homepage:cool:)

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