To Bing or not to Bing? (Hands on)

[fastrunner]

Bing?The name is not elegant for it sounds like 'Disease' in Chinese language.

 

[Slimy]

very interesting development. i opened bing and searched for 7201.0.090601-1516_x86fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULFRER_EN_DVD.iso and got no results but when i googled it i got loads

They aren't censoring anything, talk about jumping to conclusions. Their indexing just isn't as fast as Google's: search for it now.

 

[zapppa]

Bing is very good!
To test it you must select United States!!The search results are great like google ones and has very interesting images and video search options.
If you put another country Bing works like live.com search engine!

i searched 7201.0.090601-1516_x86fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULFRER_EN_DVD.iso with many results..

 

[MasterEvilAce]

Bing is not too great. I love how they display and let you interact with images and videos. Their bird's eye view for maps are amazing. Having said that, the general design of the site (the front page for instance) doesn't do anything for me. Their search (which is their main motivating factor) isn't very good. Doing a search for me or my coworker returns 0 results relating to the company we work for. Google finds it. I've worked there a bit over 6months, and he's been there over a year.

Bing just doesn't find it. Comparing many more searches as well, and Bing is still pretty disgraceful. Google will probably implement similar techniques that Bing does, and when that happens Bing just won't matter

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

I love Bing, it gives me the results I want so far.

It looks nice too, looks more.. up-to-date, compared to google and yahoo (my opinion).

I even set it as my homepage =P

 

[Win7User512]

I saw a commercial on TV last night for Bing. Not a bad commercial.

 

[Jacee]

Bing has a built in 'security' ... it will warn about the site you searched for (or didn't search for) if it's bad. It will still let you enter it, but the warning is there.

 

[mxosder16]

Bing has a built in 'security' ... it will warn about the site you searched for (or didn't search for) if it's bad. It will still let you enter it, but the warning is there.

I knew you would be the one to tell us
Good to know

 

[mxosder16]

Here are some commercials:

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uy7Grx3fb2M"]YouTube - Microsoft Bing TV Commercial[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZUVcYX6W80&feature=related"]YouTube - Bing Search Overload - Hawaii[/ame]

bing commercial - Bing Video

I like the Hawaii one, good ending

 

[Win7User512]

I saw the top one last night.

I tried to get the video, but YouTube was not loading in my browser.

 

[GatoSoft]

Just another search engine with warnings built-in.
I wonder if Microsoft will google the problem to fix it. :sarc:

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

lol I saw a commercial for it last night, 2 minutes after I watched it online. It wasn't that bad but it sorta was confusing for people that pay little attention. Like me

 

[tw33k]

They aren't censoring anything, talk about jumping to conclusions. Their indexing just isn't as fast as Google's: search for it now.

still no results found

 

[garysgold]

What do you mean no results. I found better results than at google (windows 7201). The first 5 links at google were junk. The first link at bing was here.

Gary

 

[tw33k]

What do you mean no results. I found better results than at google (windows 7201). The first 5 links at google were junk. The first link at bing was here.

Gary

maybe coz i'm in australia??? it makes no sense! i get "no results found"

edit: i'm not just searching for "windows 7120" but the whole file name

"We did not find any results for 7201.0.090601-1516_x86fre_client_en-us_Retail_Ultimate-GRMCULFRER_EN_DVD.iso."

 

[mxosder16]

File name works for me:

 

[tw33k]

any ideas why it doesn't for me?

 

[mxosder16]

Maybe regional?
Try setting it to United States

 

[tw33k]

still no good...

 

[mxosder16]

It shouldn't say beta if you changed the location.
Don't go to the page via a favorites tab.
Type out the address and make sure it's set at United States