Bing It Is: Microsoft Rolls Out Its New Search Engine

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by Anon84 • 17 years ago

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ratsbane2• 17 years ago

B.I.N.G.: But It's Not Google. That choice of name is either very clever or very not clever and I'm not sure which.

pg• 17 years ago

I bet it was unintentional. But I think you just created a very sticky fakeponym.

ratsbane2• 17 years ago

Thanks. Actually I just saw that on Slashdot. I think you just created a sticky neologism too: http://www.google.com/search?q=fakeponym I like it.

crescendo• 17 years ago

I'd like to think they were going for something recursive: Bing Is Not Google.

carbon8• 17 years ago

I'd be curious to hear exactly what functionality is supposedly provided by the distracting background images and headers. I want to like bing (seriously, powerset FTW), but this is the same kind of pointless design-by-committee stuff that typifies this company's products.

chaosmachine• 17 years ago

I thought the random background image was a cool idea. Gives you something to look forward to, assuming they change it every day, and you have it set as your homepage.

zimbabwe• 17 years ago

The headers I agree with, but big images look pretty, and I can't think of anything that would work better beyond the blank white that Google's made its visual trademark. Live half-assed between the two options, which I hated.

run4yourlives• 17 years ago

It looks more like a 1990's era "portal page" than google's trimmed search engine. I'm not sure if that is a good thing, since google already killed that dragon.

stcredzero• 17 years ago

I think they may be onto something. The "Portal" doesn't work because it pushes a lot of information or options at the user that they didn't ask for.

Search was better because it responds to the user. If you have something that's purposely structured like a portal, but which reacts to what the user asks for, then you have advantages of both.

gruseom• 17 years ago

I am skeptical. Yet this grabbed my attention:

Bing [...] wants to focus on providing an especially good user experience in four verticals: making a purchase decision, planning a trip, researching a health condition, and finding a local business.

Those are precisely the areas where I find Google to be so overrun with SEO'd junk that it's often close to useless. If MS can deliver something better in these areas I'd use it. I doubt they will, though. They'd have to go from being awful to being great.

Bing It Is: Microsoft Rolls Out Its New Search Engine

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