Do you bing? | The Coffeehouse

littleguru
<3 Seattle

Cheers!

Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

50%

RoyalSchrubber
One. How many time travellers does it take to change a lightbulb?

What's inside? Vodka? Tongue Out

gadget

I bing. I do like google street maps though.

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to RoyalSchrubber

#Aug 29th @ 11:27 AM

The rim says "Natural", "Sodium free. All natural. No calories. No sweeteners."

My guess is spring or soda water.

America: the only place where companies get away with calling something "natural" when it's physically impossible to get an artificial alternative.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

I saw them today in the freezer... Yes, I work today Tongue Out They contain sparkling water. Quite good.

Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)

In reply to littleguru

#Aug 29th @ 12:02 PM

They design and print special cans for company intern drinks? What a waste of advertising budget. Tongue Out

They should sell this 'Bing Soda' in normal stores. Much better. Smiley

GoddersUK
I CAN has cheezburger and you CAN'T has stop me!

There's competition about though

And unlike bing water it's loaded with sugary, colary sweetness... and it's fairtrade too!

Tongue Out

W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

In reply to GoddersUK

#Aug 29th @ 1:26 PM

I've been told by many reliable sources that Ubuntu Cola tastes like piss.

exoteric
I : Next<I>

I Bing 1% or so. This is not so much because Bing is not great as because it is not great in my country. I refuse to use an advertising proxy to see a non-handicapped Bing. As far as I'm concerned, from where I'm standing, and Bing doesn't allow me to see it any other way, Bing is in a vegetative state. Sure, the general search itself is great but a search engine is so much more than just general search today - indeed Bing even calls itself a "decision engine" for this reason.

exoteric
I : Next<I>

In reply to littleguru

#Aug 29th @ 12:02 PM

Nice. It's a good metaphor for pure, healthy, unbiased results Smiley
Although really, we all know that water tastes differently, in different parts of the world.

Maybe the text should read "I Bing! U Bing? We Bing!" Ah okay, maybe not heh

Sabot
My name is Dave Oliver. I'm a Technical Architect.

I don't drink any <rap that comes in a can!!! Geez, I have enough respect for me body.

.... but I use Bing, it's the default. It's ok, it's not woowing my world yet. I'm using the UK version that doesn't have all the goodness the US version has yet so I'm not really going to judge until it does.

I pretty much get the Bing and Google resultsets are much the same for the searches I do. I'm not after perfection as Search is fundimentally flawed anyhoo.

XaeroVincent

Where do you buy these tech colas at? What do they taste like? Are they re-branded Coke or Pespi?

I'm still 100% Google because I like the minimalist Web 1.0 look. Search engines are a boring technology with few compelling reasons to choose one over the other.

PerfectPhase
"This is not war, this is pest control!" - Dalek to Cyberman

In reply to W3bbo

#Aug 29th @ 12:00 PM

What does natural even mean in this context? Give me some Oxygen and Hydrogen and I'll make water in a lab?

kettch

In reply to PerfectPhase

#Aug 30th @ 6:47 PM

It looks like rebranded Talking Rain, which is already all over Microsoft. They have different flavors of their sparkling water which are made with all natural flavorings. I seem to remember seeing some Vista branded cans at one point, but they had a small Talking Rain logo on the back.

littleguru
<3 Seattle

In reply to Sabot

#Aug 30th @ 2:33 AM

This one is only water. With sparkles... and nothing else. It's as if you drink it out of a bottle. Smiley

It is rebranded talking rain. But still cool to have them rebrand it to have the bing stuff on it!

contextfree

In reply to exoteric

#Aug 29th @ 10:13 PM

I tend to search for obscure stuff (and things like, "hmm, I think I see a connection between obscure concept A and seemingly unrelated obscure concept B from a different field, I wonder if anyone else has talked about them together?") and Bing just doesn't seem to have as many sites in its database, so I still use Google for 99% of searching. I use Bing Local and Bing Shopping occasionally, though. I also use Bing when I want to specifically search for two words put together as one word (like my username here), because Google automatically separates them and I can't find any way to make it only look for the concatenated version.

spivonious

I use Bing as my primary search, but I keep Google in the provider list so I can quickly search the same terms in case Bing doesn't give me what I'm looking for (which is about 25% of the time).

I've given up on Bing directions. The UI is better than Google's, but I've had bad directions given to me twice now, one telling me to drive south to go north, and another telling me to take a bunch of back roads to get on a highway a couple of exits up from where I started, rather than just getting on the highway.

Dr Herbie
Horses for courses

In reply to spivonious

#Aug 31st @ 6:56 AM

Unfortunately (for Microsoft) google.com is so deeply ingrained on my muscle memory that I don't even have to think abour typing it -- I don't even use the quicksearch thingy, I alway go stright to the address bar.

Even though the functional part of bing loads quickly, the fact that I know, deep down, that it's background loading the image makes it feel slow. Google is fast and sparse -- it concentrates on doing one thing and one thing only. Not that I don't find the facts on the Bing image interesting, but I'm not there to train for a pub quiz.

Herbie

exoteric
I : Next<I>

In reply to Dr Herbie

#Aug 31st @ 7:36 AM

I actually find the daily Bing image great. It is a nice counter-point to Google. It loads fast here and the UX is minimalistic but has a nice beautiful or inspiring background image every day and I don't mind that. It makes Google feel too primitive in terms of UX. As long as search is fast and effective it doesn't matter.

One thing that would be even more cool is an even more fine-level background transformation, like a background that changes every minute or less - from some location on earth. It'll happen.

Also, the muscle memory argument is negated in the same sentence due to the fact that you can set a default, so muscle memory doesn't really have anything to do with the choice. I as good as never type in google.com anymore, just use the Chrome omnibox.

exoteric
I : Next<I>

In reply to contextfree

#Aug 31st @ 2:03 AM

I have the same perception, that the base seems to be larger in Google, although the Bing results are very good given the base.

With respect to obscure searches: something quite fascinating is True Knowledge which allows one to ask questions in natural language and derrive real answers. Albeit not from the Web as a whole but from carefully crafted machine knowledge inserted into the system by people who use the service. It also deals with ambiguity. This I find promising. Similar to Wolfram|Alpha but more broad in scope in some sense (logic in general, not just mathematics and information queries). But as Wolfram|Alpha, not applying reasoning to the entire Web but only a carefully modelled "closed world"´. In the True Knowledge case it isn't quite as closed because any user can form knowledge in the system and the system will deal with any ambiguities.

contextfree

In reply to exoteric

#Aug 31st @ 12:28 PM

Hmm, this stuff is pretty interesting. I tried asking it "are humans animals?"

No

Your question

Is human being, a rational bipedal primate of the species homo sapiens a subclass of animal (excluding human beings)?

I used the following facts to provide this answer:

Seems like begging the question to me! There doesn't seem to be any way to dispute its interpretation of your question. Makes me feel like I'm in an episode of Star Trek, having philosophical arguments with the computer ... now I'm going to try and get it to explode by forcing it into a contradiction. Tongue Out

Charles
Welcome Change

I just Binged i * i. It did not compute it. Google did. I sent feedback using the Fedback link on the bottom of the Bing results page informing the Bing team of this incredibly important bug (just kidding about the importance...). I hope you do the same when Bing doesn't compute correctly for you.

C

staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

Silly reason, but I bing because I like the daily picture. The results are at least as good as google for what I typically need (or could tell)and I made it my default on the search bar during testing and no energy to switch back.

La Bomba
Boing!

In reply to staceyw

#Aug 31st @ 9:33 PM

Actually i bing for the same reason, it looks better than Google, and nice on my widescreen monitor.

It's fast too. Searches give me what i want.