As we all know, the Google pretty much has the search engine game down to a science. Well, those folks at Microsoft are not going to allow such nonsense and have introduced there new search engine, Bing. It appears Bing is a replacement for (at least for now) to Live.com, Microsoft’s previous search effort. To be honest, Bing, has some pretty nice features:
- RSS results feeds: Bing’s results feeds might give you some new and intriguing links on the items you’re keeping up with.
- Video Previews: Digital Inspiration suggests that international users can use Bing to watch fairly lengthy previews of Hulu clips by hovering their mouse over the results for search terms like “The Office.”
- Search Categories: Broad searches for terms with deep results bring up suggestive, possibly helpful categories to try searching under.
- Shopping: Includes the occasionally great cashback bonuses.
In case video does it for you:
From Lifehacker.com:
Early Reviews
- Gizmodo: “In the automatically generated top links for Gizmodo are months-old links to single posts about the second Bill Gates/Seinfeld ad and leaked box shots of the Zune 16GB and 160GB models. Really?”
- Ars Technica: “The results for some queries blow my mind: how is it possible that the results can be so preposterously useless? Other times, though, a comparison with the old Live Search shows that Bing obviously has had its algorithm tweaked for the better.”
- Mashable: “There’s at least three very different versions of Bing right now, and depending on where you are, your Bing experience will be very different. It’s a very weird decision from Microsoft, bound to cause a lot of confusion, but hey: it’s the Microsoft way.”
- Technologizer: “Bing attempts to differentiate itself from what Steve Ballmer would call “the market leader” in search by focusing on helping users with four common action-oriented search tasks: making a purchase, planning a trip, researching a health condition and finding a local business.”
- ReadWriteWeb: “The main difference between the two search engines is that Bing offers more options on the left, including special sections for symptons, medication, children, etc. It also offers ‘related searches’, which with health-related searches is typically helpful … With Google you can get more options too, but you have to click “Show Options…” – which we’re not sure how many users do.”
[Via Bing.com]
So first MSN became Live, but now Bing is live, i man Live is Bing, I mean MSN changed to Bing, which is now live…
I use Bing and Google whenever i want to find something on the internet. I think that both search engines are very good. `