Microsoft’s Bing Goes Live
I’m not sure if the folks at Redmond have changed their water supply, but for the last 6 months to a year, Microsoft has been getting a lot more right than they have wrong.
As evidence of this, their new search engine bing.com (formerly codenamed Kumo) has opened to the public in preview mode, much the same way Gmail has been in beta for over 5 years now. After a few random searches, I’m sold, or at least rented.
The layout is similar to google once you enter a search, with “Web Images Videos News Maps More” all being available at the top, but there’s some real polish going on in there.
Say you want to buy the Acer Easystore. The obvious search of ‘buy easystore’ resulted in only two links to that products in Google, starting at result number 7, as a number of results for ‘easy store’ took over the top. I got more or less the same results in Bing, but the results that had ‘easystore’ as all one word were at the top. Refining that to ‘buy acer easystore’ is similarly better in bing, with more relevant results without having to leave the search results.
Similarly, a few searches where I included the word video automatically put 4 of the most popular results as thumbnails on the top, which you can play on the results page, or expand upon. Using the video search is also much nicer than Google’s, as it presents a wall of videos (without the heavy bias towards video.google.com).
As it stands, bing is giving google a run for it’s money in a way that others like cuil and Wolfram Alpha haven’t so far.
Yup, BING is a nice clean UI with a fast and accurate search that easily rivals Google. I wonder it it will ever unseat the Big G though…although I once asked the same thing of Google vs. Infoseek
I’m sure they wouldn’t mind unseating the Goog, but when 1% of the search market is worth upwards of $1 billion, just a nice bump in traffic makes it worth the time and effort. 🙂
Microsoft’s biggest is challenge is getting the mindshare to make bing stick.
and wolfram is really a totally different kind of search engine that doesn’t compete with google or bing
True that. Wolfram Alpha is more of a research tool than straight up search. Personally I think it would be cool if it was called Wolfram Hart. 🙂
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