[dustinsherrill]

YaWho? They have a search engine?

[MarkSullivan]

charlesRovira:

I have to throw the flag on that one. Your criticism of the headline is baseless. The story does exactly what the headline says it does. And it seems to have enticed you to read the story. I agree with you that Google probably isn't too worried, but some of the features on Bing might spur Google to offer similar or competing features, which is good for everybody. All in all I found this slideshow to be well-done and very timely. -Mark

[ccouch]

Google is still the best! Yahoo is the worst. I did try Bing out, and I did not like it.

[uictamale]

to make it a little easier for anyone looking to search both bing and google at the same time, I made a quick mashup for the two:

http://bingle.pwnij.com

happy bingleing!

[drrexx]

I have just done a series of parallel searches on Google and Bing on "substantive" topics that may be useful for my job ---e.g., how-to files, software and hardware documentation or updates, etc. While Google is always on target, Bing's performance is awful. Bing's top 10 or top 20 results often are hardly relevant to my search. Apparently, Bing seems good for searching fun stuff, but Google still delivers on substance. I can see myself using both in the future, but for now I will stick with Google for the serious stuff.

[rgreen4]

Google's search algorithms have always been top notch.

[ushere]

anyone know how to add it to ff3's search engines? all the 'add-on' pages time out?

[nicole1]

Bing is King

[rasmasyean]

I would say that Bing gives you a different experience. It's almost as if it tries to "guess" what you want.
I think perhaps at this point some savvy Googlers might know how to phrase their search and use filters and such and may narrow the results down and that might give you better results because you are "in tune" with Google after so many years.
For example, if you do "finding a job", Bing organizes sections into "Job Tools", "Job Sites", "Job Salaries", "Tips on Jobs", "Videos of finding a job". Now maybe if you were really search-engine savvy, you can narrowly focus on what you want at the moment and organize your search session to find what you need. But for most common people, they don't have a research degree so these assistive aids might help "guide" them along the way to what they want answered.

[meetul]

Results :
Google (10/10)
Bing (9.5/10)
Yahoo (7/10)
And mind you, microsoft is coming up with lots of more different things in Bing, so forget about the SEO (Search Engine Optimization) of Google, Start DEO(Decision Engine Optimization) of Bing... :)

[maddy1976]

I guess this is some great news for the internet world. Finally, something that is a bit more feature rich. The only question is, can a search engine dominate all verticals. Microsoft was smart to pick up Farecast., but I am wondering why Yaho closed out Farechase. If I was Google, I would buy up some smaller vertical search engines and test something similar to Bing, just to understand the verticals better. I personally use Travelgrove.com as my travel search, because of the social network in the back, but there are many other innovative travel sites that can do the same. Kayak may be a bit too expensive at this point.

[rasmasyean]

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.

[bbvammy]

@rasmasyean

Quote

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???

I have that problem too.

My computer always doing something, so load over 1000 images at a time actually SLOW down my computer alot.



Maybe I should rename BING to SLOW POKE



I guess its my fault



NOT having a 64bit OS.



NOT having 12GB of ram.



NOT having a gaming system.



NOT having a quad core system.



NOT having a T1 connection.



NOT having a multi-monitor



NOT having something .... etc.

[rasmasyean]

Yeah, if anything Microsoft is not known for waiting for everyone to catch up. I think when Vista first came out you really needed a $3,000 computer to take full advantage of it. LOL!
Even though they say the Windows 7 upgrade path is a lot better since they didn't change much, that's not really true. Because if you want a good multi-touch computer to take full advantage of it, it will prolly run you a pretty penny as well. Some of those screens run high.

[sekarda]

check out
http://www.stringy.com
It searches Google and Bing at the same time.

[rasmasyean]

Did you just make that? The Enter key doesn't work.



That's pretty cool though. If you have 2 monitors, you can stretch the browser to make one on each monitor.

[bbvammy]

Here is something funny

I want to purchase a CPU.

so, I went to www.bing.com

click SHOPPING.

type "Intel Pentium 4 2.40 GHz CPU"

and BING returns

"Sorry, we did not find any product results for this search."

I went to Google

{size:-1}Results 1 - 10 of about 186 for Intel Pentium 4 2.40 GHz CPU.
(0.20 seconds)

{size}

I love BING's anti-purchase feature. ]:)

[rasmasyean]

It works for other GHz.
Maybe that's a listing feature that merchants have to submit (or perhaps pay or bid for).
I see a lot of the ones on Bing have a bing cashback.

[bbvammy]

@rasmasyean

BING ........

WOW .... what a search engine.

[rasmasyean]

Search engine or not, I'm sure they are in it for the money. Just as directory listings require you to pay for certain features, search engines I imagine would do the same. Google as well. If my guess is correct, it would indicate that everyone lists with google...and microsoft offers cashback incentives so more ppl will list with them as well. If bing becomes a threat, you might see "google rewards" start appearing.