Ok so I was wrong about Bing!

By: Qwaider

On:Tuesday, June 09, 2009 5:24:26 PM
In:Thoughts
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I've been trying Bing for a few days now, and quite frankly, it's been doing a great job. I really didn't expect it at first, but I am seriously getting what I need when I'm searching.

At first, I was off to try to give it a spin, just to see if it's worth all the fuss. Couple of days later I found my self doing it without even thinking about it. But here's the interesting part, I was getting the results that I've grown to expect, EVERY TIME! A huge leap forward in my opinion.

So I admit it, I was wrong...

Few things I love in particular.

When I'm searching for an image, WHY do I have to keep clicking "1, 2, 3, 4, 5..."? Instead of what you see in Bing where the pictures are a continuous stream you scroll down and more pictures show up. +1

When I am searching for a video, the minute I hover on the video, it starts playing excerpts from it, A MAJOR plus! +2

If you're living the the US, MAPS are amazing! I've been able to find stuff simply by searching and clicking on maps. +1 They even have a weird, "Find coupons feature". In an economic strained world that comes in handy!

Shopping experience is a slam dunk! I found what I needed, for the least price on the web, GOT CASHBACK$$$ and free delivery and payed no taxes. Excuse me, but for someone who does 50% of all his shopping online that an Amazing thing. +3

Looks like I was too quick to judge Bing, it's turning out to be quite a great product. For the first time a search coming from Microsoft actually DOES WORK. Now if people are going to start using it or not, that's a whole other story.

As for me, I still run to my old faithful google from time to time to "double check" my results, and so far, Bing is really holding it's own!

Memories....

#1
KJ
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On: 6/10/2009 1:09:58 AM
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wow, it takes a human to admit mistakes :P i guess i was too quick to judge :P

#2
Qwaider
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On: 6/10/2009 2:42:50 AM
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Why you had doubts? ;)

#3
Marvin
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On: 6/10/2009 4:05:26 PM
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Hmmmm.... Microsoft must have bought out the company who built Bing. They certainly couldn't have come up with it on their own. ;-)

#4
za3tar
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On: 6/10/2009 5:09:24 PM
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see ... never judge a book by its cover :-D
I tried bing and so far like it. BTW, my advice to those residing outside the USA is to switch the locale on Bing to USA-English (follow a link at the top of the main page). It turns out that the US version has a richer feature set than that exposed to the rest of the world, i don't know why would they do that.

in other news ... in its 3rd hardware release, Apple is now adding video capturing and a 3 MegaPixel camera to their phone. Seriously ?? Are they still dealing with hardware from 8 years ago ? Ahhhh ... I don't think i am ever capable of making the full switch to Apple computers