Thursday may not have been Microsoft Bing Day, but today sure is. Microsoft quietly launched their new search engine without fanfare and sans parade.
Last week everyone got to see the demo video and a few of us were actually able to access Bing for our reviews. Most everyone, though, just had to wait to actually try the service.
Initial reader comments tended towards the negative on announcement day. Microsoft got heat for having nothing but a landing page up (and not even that for a while after the announcement). The “Bing stands for But It’s Not Google” comment appeared a number of times, as did sarcastic comments like “Looks like Live search again. Good to see Microsoft trying new things.” There were also a few variations of “MS is a bloated sinking ship…bing is nothing but a desperate attempt by an obsolete company.” You get the picture.
Today, though, they can actually try it. And the overwhelming number of user comments on our launch post Sunday evening are extremely positive. People like Bing. A few of them:
So long Google … I’m a Binger now
lol i agree. all the search results i get are very good and i really like this interface.
Bing looks interesting and very promising, It gives perfect results for couple of my favourate searches [aah my name 
]
It is fast, accurate, visually pleasing – and as Sam said above – Holly crap, it doesn’t suck. I really like the way the images are done – click on an image in the gallery and then the results go along the left hand side – that is a sweet feature. The news search falls a bit short – but hey.
The results are actually good. i did a search for “extend a dd-wrt network with airport express” and was impressed by the qlty of the results. also the results look clean. and the left hand guided search assistant is great.
good results and feels really responsive and fast. Will use.
I kinda like it….will have to play with it for a week or so.
Wow! Did Microsoft finally nail search? Had to know they would get it right at some point…
Also quite impressed. Even though there are heavy graphics, it still feels light and responsive. I actually think it makes Google feel a little stale.
wow…… bing is good……..surprise coming from Microsoft…
I expected the worst and was pleasantly surprised. The images search was better (more relevant) that what I was getting at Google. I also tried some searches that I normally use Google for and most of the same results came up, in roughly the same order (meaning I could use this thing for real after all). The only problem I see is breaking the habit of using Google. That Bing is actually competent and useful for search is really surprising. MS nailed it. Even if it’s not “as good as” Google, it’s pretty damn close.
My thoughts on Bing: I like it. And I’d consider using it as my search engine. But like many people I’m used to Google and I know how to find the things I’m looking for. Bing returns very different results for a lot of queries, which is great. But it also means spending time learning how to use Bing to get what you need out of it. I’ll spend that time because it’s my job. But for most people, they’ll stick to what they know, and that’s Google.
If Microsoft takes search share with Bing, it will likely be from Yahoo. If I were Yahoo and I was thinking of doing a search deal, I’d pull that trigger sooner rather than later. Yahoo wants a “boatload” of money to do a search deal or sell the company outright. Microsoft offered a boatload last year for either deal and couldn’t get it done. If Bing is a hit, there’s little reason for them to offer more. Google’s blocked from working with Yahoo, so they aren’t going anywhere.
I’ll sum up with this – whether Microsoft ultimately succeeds or not in “winning” the search war, the competition is very good for the rest of the Internet. Google needs to be pushed to try innovating new things (not this). And search marketing competition will ensure that Google doesn’t get too greedy. We don’t need Microsoft to win, but we do need to avoid a world with just one search engine that matters. Maybe Microsoft can win that lesser war, at least.
I like Bing, but it seems much more incremental in terms of improvements. Yauba and Wolfram still seems to be ones doing things that are quite different in terms of innovation.
MGS is there to report all negatives of Bing. Count already 2.
I agree. he is biased.
Bing is much better than I thought, I like it.
anyone knows how can I switch the default search from firefox to bing?
At the top of the Bing page, there is a “Add Bing to your browser” link. If it’s not there now, you must have clicked it at one time earlier. It’s easy to get the link back, though. Go to Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Show Cookies and search for “bing” (without quotes). Highlight and remove all bing cookies while making sure you’re not deleting useful cookies. Then click Close and then OK or Cancel. Refresh the Bing homepage.
If the link is not there, you’ve probably already loaded the search engine into Firefox and just need to switch to it as the default. To the left of where your current search bar is right now, there’s a button with the logo of your currently-selected search engine. Click that and a menu of search engines will drop down. Select Manage Search Engines. Move Bing to the top and click OK. Then be sure to click the same drop-down again and select Bing to make it your current search engine.
is there a way to make the awesomebar search bing?
Or you could follow the simple process here
http://www.ieaddons.com/en/
I prefer Yahoo Search to MSN search, if given the choice between the two. I think that if Yahoo does a deal with MSN, then Yahoo’s search engine should stay alive and they should get rid of MSN search. That being said, Bing could be a success, but whenever I had previously tested MSN search it gave me the strangest search results, so I’m not optimistic on Bing’s long term success.
Why doesn’t Yahoo just re-brand their search engine as “Bingo” or “Joomanji” or something funny sounding. Yahoo has millions of users that would flock to any search engine it advertises.
I think it would be again a flop thing from Microsoft, by introducing bing. It’s not going to work for more days :-/
http://www.smartbloggerz.com
It’s your blog that’s going to flop.
Sort of like your written word.
Wow, is this supposed to be a joke? I’m sorry, but this search site is really poopy.
MICROSOFT WILL NEVER FLOP BY
INTRODUCING BING, BING ISN’T HERE FOR
FEW DAYS. BING CAME IN WITH WHITE CASTLE ON BOTH ON THIS EARTH 88 YEARS. MY NAME BING WAS ALWAYS WORTH ITS SALT. AS A BING I NEVER REACHED THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN LIKE WHITE CASTLE, BUT AS A BING I HAD AN INTERESTING AND GOOD LIFE. THE NAME BING I LEARN IS AND WAS A SOCIAL MAGNET THROUGH LIFE. AS THAT TRUTH IS PROVEN TODAY. I WILL NOW HAVE TO RETIRE MY SECOND TIME. FIRST FROM MY REGULAR PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT 25 YEARS.(FMC/LINK BELT) AND NOW FROM MY INTERNET-RAMBLING HOBBY. IT WAS FUN AND INTERESTING WHILE IT LASTED. BUT ONE CAN’T BEAT BIG BUSINESS. I DON’T KNOW WHO WILL SUE WHO FOR THE NAME BING. I MAY JUST THROW IN THE TOWEL. I’VE NEVER BEEN MUCH OF FIGHTER. EVEN WWII COMBAT SCARED HELL OUT OF ME. AND THERE IS NO COPY-RIGHT ON NAMES — SO HELLO MICROSOFT BING. AND BYE ANY OTHER BING INCLUDING THIS BING AND BLESS ALL WITH A BING. AND MAY ALL YOUR DAYS BE BRIGHT. I UNDERSTAND IT SOUNDS SILLY, BUT TRUTH BE KNOWN. BING IS THE REAL THING. I KNOW HANDS-ON. AND I’LL SAY THAT A LITTLE CLEAN HUMOR AND A LITTLE CLEAN SILLINESS IN IN OUR WORLD TODAY IS IN SHORT SUPPLY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME — (BING)
PS: I BELIEVE MICROSOFT WAS DRAWN TO BING BY A BING BY A BING, OR A BANG — WAY TO GO! COULD LAST ANOTHER 88 YEARS AND WE’LL PROBABLY RUN OUT OF BINGS ALONG WITH MOCROSOFTS. AND MAYBE EVEN OURSELVES. UGH! SUCH THOUGHTS! THATS NOT HUMOR. PLEASE DON’T PAY ANY ATTENTION TO MY RAMBLINGS — (IT’S CLEAN AND ??!!) BING.
MY COMPUTER IS IN PROBLEM MODE — PLEASE EXCUES MISTAKES…
MICROSOFT WILL NEVER FLOP BY
INTRODUCING BING, BING ISN’T HERE FOR
FEW DAYS. BING CAME IN WITH WHITE CASTLE ON BOTH ON THIS EARTH 88 YEARS. MY NAME BING WAS ALWAYS WORTH ITS SALT. AS A BING I NEVER REACHED THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN LIKE WHITE CASTLE, BUT AS A BING I HAD AN INTERESTING AND GOOD LIFE. THE NAME BING I LEARN IS AND WAS A SOCIAL MAGNET THROUGH LIFE. AS THAT TRUTH IS PROVEN TODAY. I WILL NOW HAVE TO RETIRE MY SECOND TIME. FIRST FROM MY REGULAR PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT 25 YEARS.(FMC/LINK BELT) AND NOW FROM MY INTERNET-RAMBLING HOBBY. IT WAS FUN AND INTERESTING WHILE IT LASTED. BUT ONE CAN’T BEAT BIG BUSINESS. I DON’T KNOW WHO WILL SUE WHO FOR THE NAME BING. I MAY JUST THROW IN THE TOWEL. I’VE NEVER BEEN MUCH OF FIGHTER. EVEN WWII COMBAT SCARED HELL OUT OF ME. AND THERE IS NO COPY-RIGHT ON NAMES — SO HELLO MICROSOFT BING. AND BYE ANY OTHER BING INCLUDING THIS BING AND BLESS ALL WITH A BING. AND MAY ALL YOUR DAYS BE BRIGHT. I UNDERSTAND IT SOUNDS SILLY, BUT TRUTH BE KNOWN. BING IS THE REAL THING. I KNOW HANDS-ON. AND I’LL SAY THAT A LITTLE CLEAN HUMOR AND A LITTLE CLEAN SILLINESS IN IN OUR WORLD TODAY IS IN SHORT SUPPLY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME — (BING)
PS: I BELIEVE MICROSOFT WAS DRAWN TO BING BY A BING BY A BING, OR A BANG — WAY TO GO! COULD LAST ANOTHER 88 YEARS AND WE’LL PROBABLY RUN OUT OF BINGS ALONG WITH MOCROSOFTS. AND MAYBE EVEN OURSELVES. UGH! SUCH THOUGHTS! THATS NOT HUMOR. PLEASE DON’T PAY ANY ATTENTION TO MY RAMBLINGS — (IT’S CLEAN AND ??!!) BING.
MY COMPUTER IS IN PROBLEM MODE — PLEASE EXCUES MISTAKES…
Arrington,
There is a search engine called Yauba. Check it out dude… It’s cool and better than Google, Bing or whatever…
I totally agree. Bing does a great job, but their results are not phenomenally different from Google. They are doing as great as Google. This isn’t enough and why would any one move away from Google, if Bing shows the same or similar. I would say, real-time search engines are going to make the next wave in search. I am sure Bing or Google will have that part soon, but I just can’t wait. Now, am trying few real-time search engines out in the market like http://www.boilingpage.com, http://www.twitturly.com etc., They are doing a great job in my opinion.
I quite like it, but it doesn’t have the amount of information indexed as gogle and that’s the bottom line: The only site too beat google will be one with more sites indexed, which is going to be impossible.
For example, if you go to google and search “Sam Ryan” you’ll see my website at the top, because my domain is “samryan.co.uk”. The header of my site says “Samuel Ryan”, so if you try “Samuel Ryan” you once again get my website.
Now go to Bing, “Samuel Ryan” brings up my site at the top, but “Sam Ryan” doesn’t. It seems Bing is either poorly indexed or struggling to match the string.
Well, I am not sure this is an argument against Bing.
Given than there must be at least several thousand people named Sam Ryan, and chances are you are not the most most famous (Unless you are the Sam Ryan that has won an Emmy Award and is an anchor for CBS).
In short, I am not sure you have much grounds for complaint. Indeed, if your website comes out on top, that would actually be a good reason against the search engine.
i would agree with Samuel on the point that ther is an indexing problem in Bing…. but apart frm that..yes it looks good! [:)]
Yeah I agree with Ryan. I searched for Pixon12, the new samsung phone. Bing came up with just two results. AS usual Google gave me a lot and most of those were relevant. News was provided as well, which was what I was really looking for. Bing is good, but not good enough. Its index seems to be as big as Live only. No improvements seems to have been done in that aspect, which is perhaps, the most important. I see Bing overtaking Yahoo. But Google neednt bother. Not yet.
2 results?
Please don’t be so ridiculous…
http://www.bing...2&FORM=BWFD
so?
it’s just 62 results!
it’s nothing compared to Google!
now, ignoring that, I really do like bing!
I searched for naruto and instead of getting into some “fan” based site, I got to the official site (with some movies at the top…) and that’s something I wanted in the first place (google is really tiring…not knowing if the movie is in the site you are about to click can really annoy you)
Indexing is poor…I agree on that! but this complaint is the same as people saying “chrome has vulnerabilities” on the day it was released! Bing will take its time but it has everything it needs to be on the top….I am pretty sure people who really care for better results will visit bing!
besides, google lists 10k+ results for even the most random thing…most of which are either repititions, malware sites or just something tagged wrong…sometimes when you search for a keyword and go to the site, you won’t even find what you were looking for…not even the word!
It is about new indexing. I think 2 results were correct, with other 62 links indexed later.
Google news search is better, it indexes few news websites more frequently. Fast indexing handful of news websites like bbc and cnn is easy and valuable. These days ppl search more for news.
It’s already at 124 results. You can actually watch Bing expand before your eyes on new products. This is actually a very exciting search tool.
Plus, put a space (Pixon 12) and you get about 600,000 results, images, etc.
@NickelGreen,
Yes, a search for Pixon12 gives me only 2 results. Probably, Microsoft should stop this geo-sensitive search results shite.
See this screenshit:
http://img253.i...00/2results.jpg
It’s probably that people don’t hate it as much as expected…
It works well. Go crawl back in your cave doorknob.
True, it works well, but I think given how negative people feel towards Microsoft to begin with, this is something of a surprise that it is not terrible. Initial reports are good, but there is nothing that really blows people away. It’s not the future of search like it is pretending to be.
It’s astonishing how fast you can search – from the UK – I’ve switched over from Yahoo/Google, so far so good, will see how it goes.
Bing looks very fast, clean and video preview and search results preview offer a better experience.
Better, really? How? People want quick answer to a simple question and Google does that excellently already.
I foresee that any incremental improvement made by Bing will be quickly replicated by Google anyway. It’s going to be a real tall order to beat 31 billion searches per month and climbing.
Game on
I particularly like Tschai’s comment
It is not that simple, if Google just copied whatever in Bing, this means they are now following not leading
try searching for something like”Manchester United” and tell me if you still like Bing….
Yeah, I did. It shows the Man. U football club homepage right on top, with LiverPool and Arsenal “similiar to this” on the right. News about Man U are displayed right below the main search result.
Images of Man U footballers on the right, and News, Tickets, Wallpapers, Forum, Images and Videos about them on the left?
What’s wrong with it?
> It shows the Man. U football club homepage right on top, with LiverPool and Arsenal “similiar to this” on the right.
i guess that’s the problem.. for a fan they’re not alike )
http://www.bing...=&form=QBLH
(this is from the US version (selected United States as your country))
That looks perfect to me
I did. Best Match – ManU’s oficial website plus deep links.
What’s the problem?
I was dissapointed for a quick moment today. I used BING and ran some searches, the results were crapped, I realized I was on the International version. Switched to the US version and my dissapointed went to “DAMN, THIS IS IMPRESSIVE”.
Microsoft has hit the nail on the head with BING. Search results so far are VERY good, MUCH MUCH better than the old Live search.
I’ve searched about some 50-60 terms and the results are very similar to Google.
It will be good seeing competition in the search field. Which has for too long been dominated by Google.
I did some further digging to see how Microsoft could come so far in search in such a relatively short period of time. It seems they’ve been buying their way into search.
Since 2007, their spending on search technology is enormous. Examples:
August 13, 2007 – aQuantive (Digital marketing (aka adwords/adsense)) $6.3 billion
April 25, 2008 Fast Search & Transfer (enterprise search) $1.1 billion
April 14, 2008 Farecast (Online search software) $75milion
August 11, 2008 – Powerset Semantic Search
September 28, 2008 – Greenfield Online Search and e-commerce services – $485 million
Personally for it to be “impressive”, it has to be much better than “very similar to Google” and “better than the old Live search” doesn’t excite me whatsoever.
I see no advantage of using it over Google, infact the interface is kinda ugly, what’s with the random photo in the background? And the ugly logo? It’s actually worse than Google in my view.
Results are better than Google. Thank you very much.
Are you like some seo guy who spends his entire days getting page rank of the websites up ?
What they gonna do now ? Play the whole game again ? lawl.
really like BING,
hope they will soon add vote feature to improve social search, for the first time i feel competition is back on the search arena,
first time in my life as say , go microsoft, go
now i am stuck with my gmail but i will definitely move if i can.
Microsoft, do not forget to improve your webmail, it keeps customers
Download the Live suite of products. I did it lately after buying this new laptop and added ALL of my web-mail accounts to the Live Mail client, now I can watch them all. Live Writer is also VERY-VERY impressive, I would strongly recommend every blogger to take a look at it ASAP.
I tend to avoid MS services because I just plain don’t like MS, but the results I’ve seen from Bing are good enough to give them a chance…
I second that.
I’ll NEVER use Windows or Microsoft software again (for security reasons).
But regarding search engines (and Web services in general), we don’t have a SECURITY threat (yet), we have a PRIVACY threat.
And Google with its tons of Web properties acts as a data hoover and profile builder – our next nightmare.
For privacy safe searching, it’s hard to beat http://www.yaub...sttname=privacy
“Our Internet privacy policy comes with no fine print, no footnotes, no caveats, no ifs, no ands, and no buts.
The entirety of our privacy policy is as follows:
We do not keep any personally identifiable information.
Period.”
Facebook generation does not care about privacy.
Nobody is going to give up Google for privacy.
There are other search engines that have tried to improve privacy like http://www.ixquick.com and http://aafter.com
“Facebook generation” I think this is a myth.
I know teenagers who didn’t care about their privacy and care about it now they’re adults.
Maybe it’s not a generation thing, but an “age” thing.
Just to balance out the bias of http://www.yauba.com ‘employees’.
1. Yauba is not a registered company.
2. Yauba’s domain is protected by proxy which is ridiculous.
3. Yauba is hosted via third party:
http://www.easy...torecreator.com which hosts via http://www.rackspace.com. So in the long run your ‘privacy policy’ extends over 2 companies and one non-company (Yauba).
So? What’s the point? What if your Windows OS itself has built in keylogger, that may send data to Microsoft’s *own* and *self hosted* data centers? Have you Wiresharked your PC ever?
Titter, your an idiot. They should have their own servers.
I agree that we need an alternative to Google, especially because of GOOG’s tendency to treat my data as their property.
However… do you really trust MSFT to make the ethical decision? They are the sharpest among a cutthroat band of big players, if history is any example.
Not disagreeing with you at all, just wondering.
The BING homepage looks like the ASK.com homepage.
Or is that just me?
yes, it is just you
How do I make Bing my default search engine on Google Chrome?
Right click the omnibar, edit search engines
go to options
scroll down to default search
select “Live Search” as your default provider
*all live search inquiries are automatically directed to bing
create a new tab
right click the address bar
click “edit search engines”
click new
on the fields type the following:
Name: Bing
Keyword: %s
url: http://www.bing...com/search?q=%s
there! you’re done!
I like the interface, and the snippet that shows up on the right is cool. But the indexing is a little wonky, imo. A vanity search for my own name gave me only a single correct hit, while on google the top 4 links are my linkedin, fb, twitter profiles and my blog post… Reason enough for me to continue with google
but the interface is pretty cool, have to admit
Sounds like a good engine that can’t find info of worth for you.
You base your decision on which search engine to use by the relavance of the results for your name, when you are irrelevant? Awesome!
I’m not sure if I’m missing the point of #Bing, but I don’t see what more it’s giving me. I don’t see the decision tree results from the demo
Switch to the US version in the top right corner.
For some reason Bing can’t answer an all important and simple query: “add url to bing”
That’s because that’s a question of dinosaurs.
Oh really? It can’t answer “add sitemap to bing” either. I have a brand new website and after adding the URL and sitemap.xml to both Google and Yahoo, they have already indexed it. I’d say bing is a dinosaur before its time.
oh, please. it took two clicks to find this
http://www.bing...ocs/submit.aspx
Yea right, bing can’t find its own pages and I’m the idiot:
http://www.bing...LH&filt=all
http://www.bing...RE&filt=all
well – yes, you’re an idiot. it took two fucking clicks to find this webmaster center page.
http://www.bing...ter/?FORM=ZZLH2
why would you search, when you can just look at the page and click on a link?
Some f’n genius you are. The whole point of search is to quickly find what you’re looking for without having to jump through a website’s hoops. Both Yahoo and Google will quickly point you to their respective pages using the search terms I used. You on staff at MS or God help you Bing?
Nathan is a tool alright. When a search engine gives “Bingo Zone” as a result for a search on “add url to bing” I’d say that’s pretty fucking ridiculous.
Why no chronological filtering.
When the whole internet seems to be sprinting toward “real-time” why can’t I filter by: Last 24 hrs, Last Week, Last Month, Last Year, etc…
I’d like to use Bing, but for me this is a show-stopper.
-Jeff Weber
http://www.farseergames.com
i’m fairly impressed. video results are cool. the search results are not better than google’s, but certainly better than live.com.
i’m not making the switch, but i am paying attention.
I bing!
yeah, so far i am pretty impressed with bing … btw: we have the far nicer bing.com screenshot in our piece
http://www.tech...bing-gestartet/
Hmm .. when I hover over Hulu.com videos they play, and I’m from Europe …
Any idea, how can I make Bing my default search engine in Firefox?
https://addons....fox/addon/12205
Got the addon.
I like it…it seems quite fast and has a clean look to it. Granted all of this may be the result of being a new search engine that’s not quite indexed as many sites as Google or established as many search ads yet. My suspicion is Microsoft will soon enough have those in place once Bing gains traction.
But there in lies the question…if it looks like Google, searches like Google and works as well as Google, why use Bing?
Because Google is a privacy wreck, and kinda acting like they own the world lately. Competition is good for everybody. Long live Bing!
Another search engine is like another email client. How many do we need? Bing page and results are clean but so is Google’s. Bing will need to advertise itself whereas Google won’t.
We need many. Competition fosters innovation.
How many do we need?
We need as many search engines as possible.
It becomes really dangerous when we let just 1 company (Google) store all our web usage data, surfing habits, etc.
Totally agree on that!
Competition is a good thing…it gives better results and the customers (that is us) always have an option…
relying on google isn’t a wise decision…
Personally, I would do EVERYTHING to make that f…ing AdWords suffer and go out of existence. The amount of damage it has done with it’s f…ing ‘Rank’ and mopolistic tricks is just unimaginable.
I think, MS should buy WolframAlpha and integrate it into Bing. I like the name Bing, Now I can say Do you Bing? The brand Live sucked for search. Though Office Live and Windows Live seems to be taking off and getting right applications into the portfolio. Though it would be good to see how will MS relate Bing and Live.
bada bing!
Thanks @arrington for referencing my earlier comment { Bing looks interesting and very promising, It gives perfect results for couple of my favourate searches [aah my name
] } on @bing in this post.
“Bing is my new Fling” – http://tumblr.c.../xbj1×5djr
Microsoft finds it hard to play fair – here is another example:
@bstrawson Oh dear…had high hopes for #bing but this does look a bit loaded for me http://bit.ly/19Q9HQ
Get something straight.
Entering primitive words won’t get you the results that you want in Google or any other search site, PERIOD.
I am not a fan of Microsoft, but I have to say…Bing has grabbed my attention. Search history is something I find useful (while google may have this feature somewhere, it’s not RIGHT IN YOUR FACE….like Bing).
Switching from web, image, video searches is really smooth.
The big PLUS in my book…endless scrolling in image results….I freaking hate pagination….I want to scroll for my result…instead of selecting page 8, 9, 10, etc.
Bing is stupid!!!!
I tried to search for “Generals ” the computer game.
Bing suggested General Electric .What?????
Now Google have better results . And better suggestions too like “generals maps” “generals cheats”..
Bing is NOT GOOGLE.
Nice try Microsoft but no thanks.
untrue.
http://www.bing...amp;Form=IE8SRC
It’s there, switch to US version. The international version seems like it’s still on the dud version.
it’s a bad sign when you have to LIE to try to make your point.
I BELIEVE YOU’RE RIGHT. BING IS STUPID!
IN WWII, THE WHOLE GERMAN ARMY CHASED BING BING ALL OVER THE EASTERN CONTINENT. WHEN HITLER HEARD HIS GANG WAS WASTING SO MUCH TIME CHASING BING. HITLER COMMIT SUICIDE. THATS HOW MUCH A BING IS WORTH. THEY WEREN’T ALL BINGS WHO TURNED THE TABLES ON HITLER, CHASING HIS WHOLE ARMY OUT OF AFRICA AND BACK HOME. THE BINGS IN WWII WON SO MANY MEDALS RUNNING FORWARD.
MICROSOFT LEARNED TO BING IT. AND THE REST IS HISTORY! BING — BLESS ALL BINGS AND OTHERS TOO. FROM THIS BING!…
WINNING WWII, WITH OTHER BINGS MICROSAOFT LEARNED HOW TO BING IT AND RST REST IS
HISTORY — BING
No really, it’s not a hit. It is a rehash of Live, it’s taken ideas from other search engines and done little except rebadge them. There’s no innovation, absolutely nothing worth shouting about. Functionality is limited, the ‘decision’ element is poor at best and in comparison to engines like Exalead it’s lagging very far behind. I cannot think of a single reason why I’d want to use this over the other engines that I use on a regular basis.
shut it google fanboy
Bing needs to index to give favorable results to users ,still a long time to go as I far as my opinion is considered it’s all in one place to watch all videos you like in single page.
I think the biggest problem for all search engines right now is indexing the internet, as Google still has loads of the internet not indexed. From my short test, which I plan to continue over the weeks I found bing very fast, some what accurate and overall good experience.
Bing is dead in a month. Microsoft is stupid. To remind everyone, they deleted tens of thousands of mail boxes of Hotmail users. Can’t trust them.
Also, I wouldn’t get too excited about comments. the only thing you could deduct from those comments is that finally MSFT didn’t release a crap product. It’s probably sub-crap.
get a life.
That, my friend, is a quote.
i always read of those who expert the “right result” first. We need to understand that the right results are different results to different individuals based on different experiences, at different times. For example, what does “ATLAS” means? For one, it is a book of map, for another, it is one of the many companies using the space, but what does it mean to ME is the question? To me, it means as I drove back from the airport earlier today, I saw a moving truck with the word “ATLAS” all over it. It means when I search for it I’m looking for ATLAS MOVING.
My experience is different than yours therefore my results should be different. Today’s search engines are primitive. Not only they do not consider search history anywhere to where they need to, they should also consider web history (browsing the web in general, even if not on the search engine), offline history, and further phone history, text history, TV history, and hopefully one day, everything I see, hear, smell, touch history.
So while bing is mostly a UI improvement and some categorization improvement on Google let’s not lose sight of the ball, that we are still very far away from how Search should be.
Cheers
Sahar Sarid
Conceptualist.com – blog
Bido.com co -founder
Wow!
Though I hate MS, I must say that the way they put related searches (what they call guides) in a side bar is good… So this makes bing seem different. The video previews are also good. Apart from that it is no better than yahoo (yahoo has related searches and suggestions on top) and google.
From a corp like MS, I expected that their sites (bing) would be a bit more polished and consistent than normal startup sites, but here we can see that many links such as help still point to live and microsoft, which kinda sucks. (Guilt by association)
Seems people like lots of images, media and color. That’s why I think that many people like Bling.
I bet kids could come up with a mash up that uses yahoo BOSS or google to make something that looks exactly like Bing or better in a week or so… (Somebody in for the game?)
I’ll stick to google and yahoo search for now…
Google is good but feels evil, so I hope something good comes up soon… waiting for blekko.
If you’re in australia, you’re probably not seeing it yet, you’ll need to change your country to US to get the updated search
I was willing to give bing a try, after all ms has made some good things over the years (very, but still some)
the first thing i noticed was that it missed the similar pages button, the last couple of months that one come in handy on google…. A second thing is that the corrections are horrible or sometimes non existing, techcrunch becomes tech cru nsh. i didn’t know that nsh was a word…. So it won’t get more than a few searches from me…
Accessing Bing from an iPhone redirects to the old Mobile Windows Live site. Hmm.
mobile roll out isnt done yet. no real eta stated yet.
I hate when I google something and Google shows “Did you mean: [something else then the think I was looking for] Top 2 results shown”
Sometimes I automatically click the first result and I find myself confused ‘where the hell am I?’ I hate that – I KNOW what I am looking for and I don’t want Google to know better – that is Microsoft-like behavior.
Surprisingly – Microsoft’s Bing does not do that – they got me. Although I would never expect Google to be more Microsoft-like than Microsoft.
Yay?
They copied google….
M$ is so desperate for a hit. Surely Balmer didnt name this? “I need a pizza place, I’ll go bing it.”
I don’t think that will ever catch on.
M$ needs to hire some people to come up with something original and quit telling us that Vista is OK. Its not.
god, youre such a fan boy. get a grip. if you think this is just a rip off of google, then you are either ignorant, or insane. you pick.
Nathan
do you work for microsoft or are you Steve Ballmer’s buttboy?
I have to agree with Nathan. How is this a ripoff? List your reasons. Google didn’t invent search, and the interface is far from a google ripoff.
Ik agree so much with shanky, and i really dont get the people who are defending m$ that its not a ripoff. Lets see why its a ripoff, the bing startup screen:
- The top bar, a bit different items BUT,.. looks VERY the same, even the bar height is EXACTLY THE SAME
- Site content is centered,.. what a coinsidence
- Search only english sites or search all sites,… positioned exactly the same
- WOW, BING HAS SHOPPING
Now thats just a start people, enter a search term and hit enter… lets see what we get
- Top bar is now even less different
- Search bar + radio-buttons below,… EXACTLY the same
- WOW, BING HAS SOME EMPTY SPACE ON THE LEFT. Notice, if this empty space was removed,.. bing would have REALLY looked 100% THE SAME as google. Now, its more like 99%. The colors (blue(link), black(text), green(url)) the positioning of items of each single search result.
- 10 Search results per page,… coinsidence?
- (1 2 3 4 5 Next) instead of (1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NEXT). Thought, the positioning (bottom of page) is almost the same (its just not centered)
- Re-enter search term on the bottom of the page,.. OMG. OMG. OMG. THE SAME!
It’s really (again) a big m$ failure (no, im not talking about vista, not about 64 bit implementation, im talking about BING). Insane!
And for those people saying it’s not a rip-off,..
- open 2 browser windows
- enter http://www.bing.nl in the first one, http://www.google.nl in the second one
- WATCH
- now enter a search term in both windows
- WATCH AGAIN
- Still think its not a ripoff, because they changed some color or so,.. then ur either BLIND OR VERY LAME (and plz pull that finger out of bill’s ass, its quitte disgusting)
This is is very powerful. I like the feel and the pop-up feature for the search results and related search suggestion on the left column, something you can see right away instead of scrolling down the page.
Finally I can make it my home page for a change.
Job well done MS.
Its pretty goood!
I don’t see any difference with regards to the "decision" part except that searching for Google yields only one result. Did it just decide that I don’t want any more results? Oh, and the interface is really cluttered and the different types of results (news especially) are not well-labeled.
no actually…it’s not just one result! it’s like searching for an item in google and clicking “i’m feeling lucky”
what actually happens (I think) is that it decides and assumes you are looking for that site…
but, I have to agree…www.google.com isn’t the only thing I would be looking for…I would be looking for news items or updates about some product (launched by google) or maybe other google site (like reader, calendar, bookmarks, etc)
but, no worries there! all you have to do is click the link that says “list all the results for google” (it’s below the result…wording may vary…I’m not good at remembering things ^_~)
Tried it out, surely a competition to google. Though, the images places below the search box look kindofstupid. Otherwise, the features on offer are brand new.
Bing reminds me Curl. Alot of noise, but nothing special.
cuil had a lot of noise before it was released, but once it was out, people realized it was crap, here it is different, people expected crap but they found a solid great poroduct, quite the opposite isn’t it
How do you know its solid? its in beta omg
There’s no way a lot of these pro-Bing comments on the articles are legit. “Bing is a great search experience blah blah” — are you kidding me? Very little is different than some alterations to Live Search.
There’s no way all these people are legit. Actually comparing lots of various searches is a huge eye opener into how much better Google gauges intent. Or maybe all these pro-Bing people are Ask users or something and never tried Live Search before…
You’re a bitch and that’s legit!
Did I upset your shilling?
Let me guess: you work for Google?
Let me guess: you work for MS?
The reactions for calling you guys out is expected. I’m just an objective search engine user, actually. I tested Bing thoroughly. Bing’s index and results are woefully inadequate compared to Google. Yahoo Search is still better than Bing. Oooh, guess that makes me a Yahoo employee now!
I’m not saying Bing is “bad” though. If Google and Yahoo went offline, I’d use it over Ask.
give an example.
so far, everyone example that has been put on this comment sections has turned out to be complete false.
so please, what query is Bing “woefully inadequate compared to Google” ?
Well, I’m going to give it a one week trial and see how it goes http://ferociou...ke-week-of.html
If anyone else out there has a blog and want’s to participate in a “Week of Bing” blog ring, please leave a comment on at my blog (click jlarson) with your URL, etc.
I’ve switched – I’m now a binger! Bing Bing!
Was dissapointed two days ago when I found an article on wired news and clicking on bing.com and found nothing.
Tried bing.com today after reading TC posting and must say its not half bad.
Im not keen on the whole wallpaper backgrounds they offer but search quality wise just as good as Goog.
Have changed my default startpage to Bing from Goog. Will give it a few weeks usage and see.
Bing definitely poor in indexing sites, as the results are very low comparing to google ,and the graphic background makes slow even in my 3 G connection. video play if fine ,image organization is good, but the main purpose of the search engine..??? something missing right.
bla bla bla,
give an example of a query you did that didn’t return what you expected.
blablabla give an example of why you like bing more then google?
I would have to agree that Bing is very poor in indexing sites. I ran a comparison on 10 different sites that certain keywords should produce the sites on the first page of the search query. Of the 10 sites, 5 of the sites showed up on the first page. That gives Bing a 50% success rate, not good in my book.
Here is an example, try mhsbandboosters as a search term. You should get http://www.mhsb...ndboosters.info at least on the first page. With Google and Yahoo you do, but with Bing I gave up after I made it to the 10th page. But the site is in their database and you can see it by putting in mhsbandboosters.info.