So what do you think of MSDN Search on Bing? | The Coffeehouse

eagle

For me there is no change from MSN / Live search results

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

That's not suprising really. Heck go outside of the US "branding" and it's the same old results. I'm getting the feeling it's more presentation than anything else, when really they should be crawling more sites, more often and working on relevancy before looking to skins

eagle

In reply to blowdart

#Jun 2nd @ 8:09 AM

The WSJ wrote a story with the assistence of Microsoft PR. Bing is initially designed to provide a much richer search experience for people looking for information in four categories: shopping, travel, health and local businesses.

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

In reply to eagle

#Jun 2nd @ 8:24 AM

The WSJ wrote a story with the assistence of Microsoft PR

I am a bit curious and I don't have a WSJ subscription... "the assistence[sic] of Microsoft PR" was mentioned in the article?

stevo_
Human after all

In reply to eagle

#Jun 2nd @ 8:24 AM

Bing is initially designed to provide a much richer search experience for american people looking for information in four categories: shopping, travel, health and local businesses.

Your name is reality sucks?!.

eagle

In reply to PaoloM

#Jun 2nd @ 8:37 AM

It never is, but if you want to believe that an experenced Journalist suddenly had the inclination to publish a story on Microsoft re-branding search independently of any impute from a Public Relations professional you go right ahead.

If your anywhere near a computer why don't you try an MSDN search on http://bing.com and let us know how you feel it compares to Google. thank-you

blowdart
Peek-a-boo

In reply to eagle

#Jun 2nd @ 10:37 AM

Of course how is this different to someone whose blog simply consists of links to other blog posts and a summary listed from those blog posts?

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

In reply to blowdart

#Jun 2nd @ 10:53 AM

It's not different. If you want to believe eagle is not on AMD payroll, you go right ahead.

ManipUni
Proving QQ for 5 years!

MSDN isn't crawled as well as I might like. I often have trouble finding things either on Google or its own search engine (which is horrible). I think that has largely to do with them moving away from static pages covering one topic to that horrible JavaScript catalog.

kriskdf

In reply to eagle

#Jun 2nd @ 10:37 AM

I use bing to search msdn quite frequently and know that bing has solid coverage of that domain (bing dev here....lost my Microsoft post background thingy in the lastest C9 upgrade apparently). Are there specific queries that underperform? I can submit internal feedback if you provide repro steps.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

In reply to eagle

#Jun 2nd @ 10:37 AM

"msdn2 list<t>" returns the very similar results in bing and google... but they were also similar in live search.

tobleroneisbest
Jan Kratochvíl

I have to disagree with a number of people here. I was a full time user of Live Search, and now I switched to Bing and there is a wast improvement. Not just the seamless presenting of the results for a query, exclusive content providers (Mayo Clinics, MSN, Encarta, ...) an no content restrictions AT ALL (if you didn't already, try to search for some vids with sexual contens) which is just amazing. But there is also a really big improvement to the core searching engine, too. The difference in the relevance changed from average to great. I submit about 20 quries / day on Live search / Bing.

intelman

Breaking the google habbit is hard. Google has worked so well. Bing is not bad, but Google is better in many ways. Unit conversions are wonderful.

Another great example of something Google has done very nicely.

Bings search result technically does give me the correct answer, but Google's first result is much more relevant. Plus Google extracted that information for me in a nice clear easy to read manner.

What Bing needs to do is to continue with their new innovative features. But they need to work on relevancy and copy every feature that Google has. It is hard to break the habbit when you know Google will be easier to use. There is a reason they are #1.

Bing fails to find the Bob Evans in my hometown, but google does... this stuff has to be fixed.

Both search engines fail in key areas. If I wanted driving directions from Columbus to Cleveland, I have to go to maps.live.com or maps.google.com I can't simply go to google or bing and type "Columbus, OH to Cleveland, OH". Microsoft does not need focus groups, and if they insist they should basically just ask niners and or me.