Comments on: Bing: How Useful Is Microsoft's New Search Offering? http://gigaom.com/collaboration/bing-how-useful-is-microsofts-new-search-offering/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 04:49:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Bing’s Not Too Shabby for Natural Language Searches http://gigaom.com/collaboration/bing-how-useful-is-microsofts-new-search-offering/#comment-83507 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:01:25 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13595#comment-83507 [...] many people have been experimenting with Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine offering, which we covered here. I agree with the many people who are noting improvements that need to arrive in Bing, such as blog [...]

]]> By: jrep http://gigaom.com/collaboration/bing-how-useful-is-microsofts-new-search-offering/#comment-83506 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:11:12 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13595#comment-83506 @Melvyn: that blind search is rather suspicious. Since I essentially always have at least one Google search in some window somewhere, I tried blinesearch with my most recent one. None of the results matched my Google result set … odd. One of the three was entirely empty, the other two were slightly different from each other. I picked one. According to the results, the empty blind search was Google … yet I’m still looking at my own google search, with that same string, and it’s definitely NOT empty!

]]> By: Melvyn http://gigaom.com/collaboration/bing-how-useful-is-microsofts-new-search-offering/#comment-83505 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:19:39 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13595#comment-83505 Try this “Blind Search” tool to see 3 sets of results for the same search: Google, Yahoo, and Bing. The kicker is that you don’t get told which set comes from which engine and you can “vote” for the one which you think was best. Then you’re shown the sources:
http://blindsearch.fejus.com/

]]> By: Jodi http://gigaom.com/collaboration/bing-how-useful-is-microsofts-new-search-offering/#comment-83504 Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:09:29 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13595#comment-83504 My concern is relevancy. I get that Bing is a “decision engine” but how is it ranking these sites? Is Bing bringing up pages based on decisions they make based on what they “think” they know about you? I really don’t think I want Microsoft making my decisions. But maybe they serve up results differently, I’m curious. It seems like a lot of products appear so I’m skeptical as to whether it’s more a way to push product sales….

I have been dabbling and I found a blog search, but didn’t see it when I initially started my search. It was only after my SERP appeared that blog was listed in the categories on the left.

I’m torn, I see some benefits that Google is lacking and vice verse.

]]> By: ¿Qué tan útil es Bing? - elWebmaster.com http://gigaom.com/collaboration/bing-how-useful-is-microsofts-new-search-offering/#comment-83503 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:00:53 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13595#comment-83503 [...] Fuente: Web Worker Daily [...]

]]> By: Simon Mackie http://gigaom.com/collaboration/bing-how-useful-is-microsofts-new-search-offering/#comment-83502 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:46:04 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13595#comment-83502 @Jeffrey – I agree, I don’t like the design. I think it’s going to take something pretty radical to shift me from Google – it does a pretty good job most of the time.

]]> By: Jeffrey Friend http://gigaom.com/collaboration/bing-how-useful-is-microsofts-new-search-offering/#comment-83501 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:58:10 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13595#comment-83501 Too little … way too late (and the whole look of the site feels tired to me.)

]]> By: Blesson http://gigaom.com/collaboration/bing-how-useful-is-microsofts-new-search-offering/#comment-83500 Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:51:44 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13595#comment-83500 I have already moved my default search from google to bing

]]> By: jrep http://gigaom.com/collaboration/bing-how-useful-is-microsofts-new-search-offering/#comment-83499 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 21:11:27 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13595#comment-83499 Also interesting are BingBing and GoogleOogle.

Here are some things that only one of those four searches showed me. Try to guess which search shows which hit:

Anything at all about Google besides its bare existence.

That there’s a consumer “cash back” program promoting Bing.

That Bing has a facebook page. And is on twitter. And has a self-promotion site called “discoverbing”.

]]> By: anonymous http://gigaom.com/collaboration/bing-how-useful-is-microsofts-new-search-offering/#comment-83498 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:44:57 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13595#comment-83498 Bingle? Goobing?

http://www.google.com/search?q=bing

http://www.bing.com/search?q=google

]]> By: Dima http://gigaom.com/collaboration/bing-how-useful-is-microsofts-new-search-offering/#comment-83497 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:50:18 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13595#comment-83497 http://www86.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=90+pounds+in+us+dollars

]]> By: jrep http://gigaom.com/collaboration/bing-how-useful-is-microsofts-new-search-offering/#comment-83496 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:46:54 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13595#comment-83496 How would you improve on Google’s currency conversions? “90 pounds in US dollars” seems about as simple as it could get, isn’t it?

]]> By: Nick Bostic http://gigaom.com/collaboration/bing-how-useful-is-microsofts-new-search-offering/#comment-83495 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:53:07 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13595#comment-83495 I’ve played around with it a bit, but it just isn’t giving the quality results I’m looking for. It may just be a familiarity issue so I’ll play with it from time to time, but Google is still my favorite for now.

]]> By: VirginTech http://gigaom.com/collaboration/bing-how-useful-is-microsofts-new-search-offering/#comment-83494 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:45:10 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13595#comment-83494 No…Not at all!
Google is much better than Bing. So i would stick with Google!

]]> By: r0nald http://gigaom.com/collaboration/bing-how-useful-is-microsofts-new-search-offering/#comment-83493 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:27:17 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13595#comment-83493 Will you be adding Bing to your search toolbox?

this site sucks.

]]> By: Dima-IMHO http://gigaom.com/collaboration/bing-how-useful-is-microsofts-new-search-offering/#comment-83492 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:34:30 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=13595#comment-83492 I like it :) it looks like it’s even faster than Google…I’m just afraid they missed the boat, too late in the game? no?…

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