New Search from Microsoft
Ivan | Mon, 2009-06-01 11:13
Bing is a brand new search engine launched today by Microsoft. It is replacing Live.com, but is it ready to take on Google? To properly test it one needs to spend a week or two with it, but here is a quick review.
Pros
- Image search has unlimited scrolling, no pager.
- Image search allows for changing thumbnail size.
- Bing detects your location and offers search within that area
- Subcategories appear on relevant keywords
- Visually interesting home page
- Better typography than Google
- Video preview on thumbnails on hover
- Cashback when shopping through Bing
Cons
- Same results as on Live.com (no new engine)
- Subcategories are not available worldwide, just US
- Visually cluttered home page
- Video, Maps and other searches not available worldwide
- Video Search doesn't work properly on Macs
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You did not mention the FACT that the only reason you did this story was because I shamed you into it! Nonetheless, you seem semi-fair. Google's days of dominance are loooong over people! Our search is superior by far!
Check out the future:
BING
search right
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I am not Steve Ballmer pretending not to be me!
I did an image search on my name, and came across this:
Funny, I don't feel dead - And I really love how you can break the entire search engine simply by searching for: "allinurl" without the quotes.
That being said, the page is designed fairly nice - it's easy to navigate, and the results are displayed quickly. It certainly LOOKS better than Google - but time will tell as to how well it works out.
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beautiful search window
nagyon kellemesen néz ki a képen látható kereső :)
with speculation on how they decided to use OUR name (a shortened version of "Bingenheimer", the name of the firm's founder) as the name of this supposed Google-killer. We're such a large, well-known conglomerate, how could they NOT have known we exist?
Also, their logo kind of blows.