Comment Feed for Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine (LauraFoy on Channel 9)

Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

Rick Henderson — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:41:38 GMT

This was actually a great video. I'm thinking about sharing it with first year computer students. Now after watching this video I realize that you can't think of Bing as a search engine LIKE Google. If you use Bing in the same way you use Google then you will not be impressed. But if you can use it to leverage the things that it does, it is pretty impressive. It will be hard to make that bit of a shift in people's ideas.

BTW: I want to see more videos with her in it! ;)(6)

Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

ivan_ — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:35:31 GMT

Simple example, I was looking how to programmaticaly select a Bar on a Silverlight chart. Guess what I typed

"Silverlight chart programmatically" in BING and browsed through 4 pages of results and didn't find anything. (I trying be more and then less specific but it didn't help).

I typed the same thing in Google and the most relevant result was at the top of the first page.

I don't like Google (as a company and their policies) but so far Google search has been better.

Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

Matt Greth — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:54:26 GMT

What would Bing Crosby say?

Pretty nice site and actually seems more responsive for the videos.

Looks like Live to me.

Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

spottedmah — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:04:11 GMT

where's the wiki feature in bing? How can I add a result to the search like I can on Google?

Re: Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

stevo_ — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:31:28 GMT

How do you know? its not even out yet.. and it isn't too complicated.. people know how to use things more complex than google- and they don't cry about it.. hell, even the average website you goto after google is vastly more complex to navigate than bing is.. personally I think its pretty well crafted.. but I really don't like the whole thing with it starting as a box in the middle with a random background image.. just seems really weird.

Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

ggponti — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:17:15 GMT

Is there going to be an "explorer part" for programming?

Also, is the SkyDrive content going to be included in the results?

Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

Christopher Hawkins — Sun, 31 May 2009 13:06:51 GMT

The question is, what if I'm looking for an Uninterruptible Power Supply?

Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

DianaLe — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:05:37 GMT

Had a brief look at this and first criticism comes to mind 'too complicated'. It doesn't perform better than Google at general internet searches but it is better than Windows Live. Also, hard to break the Google habit.

Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

DianaLe — Sun, 31 May 2009 04:58:19 GMT

Had a brief look (admittedly) at this and one criticism spring to mind ' too complicated'. It isn't better than Google in terms of general internet search though it is better than Windows Live. Also, Google might be too much of a habit to beat for most people.

Re: Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

stevo_ — Sat, 30 May 2009 18:36:28 GMT

Only in your part of the universe ;)

Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

Judah — Sat, 30 May 2009 17:13:02 GMT

Here are some thoughts:

I'd love to ditch Google. I've tried Yahoo, Live Search, Ask, and all of them fail for one reason: the search results aren't as good.

All Bing's cool features are nothing if the search results aren't up to snuff.

One other thought. Bing is kind of a funny name. When I was a little kid, bing was what we called our..ahhhm. Bing Is a Name for Genitals. :)

Re: Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

Jan Kratochvíl — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:42:38 GMT

Actuelly, I saw some product vidio about Bing earlier, and there was said that MS has put a lot of effort to make it fast. One example of this effort can be seen at live.com, where the pict loads after the rest of the page so it doesn't slow down the Live search entry point. I thing that Stefan was talking about this somwhere (maybe Stefam is, not sure though).

Re: Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

raymond — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:40:19 GMT

Bing is not Crosby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vPfOjAw5Z0

Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

Jan Kratochvíl — Sat, 30 May 2009 15:24:52 GMT

The T-Shirt looks really cool. Is there any left ? :-) Btw. is the Ad campaign going to be international or just US ?

Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

Scarabus — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:19:52 GMT

Enthusiasm!

Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

bondsbw — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:04:56 GMT

The one thing Microsoft doesn't quite seem to get: simplicity.

A search page also needs to:

Be fast
Get out of the way
Not look like something from MySpace

I think they got the last one right with Bing (over MSN's home page... that site just sucks). The jury is out on the first two.

Google has had all three right since day 1. Except for iGoogle... I don't like that either... it takes just a hair longer to load, and on a slow computer or connection, that violates #1 and #2.

Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

stevo_ — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:14:13 GMT

I wasn't expecting much from bing, but actually I think this makes google look a little dated, still need to give it a go and see how it works but if the results are good I'll use it by default, and if not I'll still be interested in it for its composition of data (ie traffic, shopping etc).

Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

rhm — Sat, 30 May 2009 12:06:05 GMT

As far as searching for information on products (like the Nikon example) is concerned, all Bing has to do to be better than Google there is to separate out review sites from retailers. Because if you search for almost any consumer product on Google by model number, all you get is page after page of SEO'd garbage.

Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

athman baathman — Sat, 30 May 2009 11:46:46 GMT

really awesome i cant wait to try it myself

but is this feature just apply for us

as the nearst movie

or u know like where to buy or tikets options or any other stuff or it is apply for anypart in the world

another thing i like the streaming but if u an manage it to make it smaller and can be uploading while watching as in youtube we see the part the already uploaded so no hang up happening

i mean make it like youtube or simple to put any video in youtube after you put it here

anyway i am very intersting

Re: Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

Dan Fernandez — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:39:32 GMT

Bing is the sound of found :)

Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

Daniel Keymer — Sat, 30 May 2009 01:03:18 GMT

What does Bing mean? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arCITMfxvEc IMHO.

(I can't take credit for that though, someone else noticed it first.)

Re: Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

Laura Foy — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:03:01 GMT

Let me see what I can do for you intelman.... :)

Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

intelman — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:02:07 GMT

Stefan, send me that "I bing " t-shirt you have :P

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

Allan Lindqvist — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:59:04 GMT

i think its farily safe to assume that people will spend alot of time on the results list... ;) some similarity? they might as well copy pasted the css :P the average user will think bing just went out and pulled the results from google.. and that a darn shame

but even disredarding that, i dont think the results page fits the visual style of bing.. it looks out of place somehow.. hopefully they'll update it until rtm :)

Re: Re: Bing: Test Drive Microsofts new search engine

seabreezer — Fri, 29 May 2009 21:58:19 GMT

No, it's not, and that's good because Bing Is Next Generation :P