Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine | Laura Foy

Zeo
Channel 9 :)

What does Bing mean?

Bing Is Not Google.

aL_
Rx ftw

bind seems pretty cool Smiley its annoying that we cant use it yet though Smiley the only thing that make or break a search engine is how good the results are Smiley

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looks good Smiley the results page [ui wise] looks way to much like google though :/ the colors and general layout is veeery similar.... the first page is niceliy syled but the wite background and blue text looks to.. nineties? i dunno.. still interesting though Smiley i wonder just how dynamic those page integration features and categories are.. cant wait to try it out Smiley

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the shopping part is pretty impressing actually Smiley is all that indexing automatic?

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http://www.tgdaily.com/html_tmp/content-view-42643-140.html cool Smiley

exoteric
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In reply to aL_

#May 29th @ 2:08 PM

Some more criteria

how relevant are search results
how usable is the search interface
how attractive is the search interface
how organic, adaptive and context-sensitive is the search interface (when, where, who)
how well does the search engine support a particular domain (Wolfram|Alpha vs Google)
how well does the search engine support language grammars to deeply understand questions
how well does the search engine support exploration
how well does the search engine integrate with other services (SkyDrive, Thumbtack?)
how well does the search engine integrate with third parties

All of these are important.

If Bing has an attractive, usable, fresh search interface with very relevant results and direct support for many knowledge domains and websites, well then it could pose a challenge to Google. The anti-thesis of the "one logo, one input box and a few text links" search engine interface.

I'd like the search engine, browser and cloud storage to work closer together and Bing looks like a little step in that direction. Next up I expect some of the entity extraction experiments on live labs to pay off so the search engine knows more about our interests than just a set of links and questions or keywords.

exoteric
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In reply to aL_

#May 29th @ 2:08 PM

Looks like Google? The whole layout of the main page is dramatically different from Google.
That the text results use green and blue is not really a shocker or a dramatic similarity.

Bas
It finds lightbulbs.

In reply to Zeo

#May 29th @ 1:51 PM

How much of this is going to be available outside the US? Since I haven't heard otherwise, I'll have to assume that the whole review gathering, consumer info finding thing will only work for US stores and for US visitors, leaving the rest of the world with a lame traditional search engine once again. Where are Live's image backgrounds, for instance?

aL_
Rx ftw

In reply to exoteric

#May 29th @ 2:32 PM

yes the main page is diffrent.. but not the results list Smiley when i look at the result list i could be on either google or bing imo.. it also looks far worse that the main page for example.. the first thing bing critics are going to say is that bing is a google rip of i know that not true, but thats what theyäll say. you shouldnt add fuel to their fire Smiley

daSmirnov

In reply to Bas

#May 29th @ 2:33 PM

I've seen screens of the UK site having the image background, which we don't currently have (and I use the US version to get it), so hopefully they'll more aggressively roll this stuff out.

exoteric
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In reply to aL_

#May 29th @ 2:38 PM

If people judge the search engine based on the look of the results list, then... But I'll grant you, yes, there's some similarity there.

exoteric
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In reply to daSmirnov

#May 29th @ 2:46 PM

Agreed. It's immensely annoying for non US visitors to be cut off. That too, is a decision input - when some features or design is crippled for outside visitors, so there should also be some focus on helping localize the service - even though that is probably a pretty substantial amount of work. I see a little bit of that starting to appear in Live Home.