Why does MS always go for shitty names?
That's just a stray thought, not my actual post.
Anyone used Bing yet?
They jumped the gun a little and released it a couple of days early, so I had a play.
Search relevancy seems pretty decent, especially if you know how to use modifiers and conditions. Easily on par with Google for general searching, and I've actually found it less cluttered with marketing junk when I was looking for specifics with conditions.
I'm fairly impressed by the way it brings up categories for specifics when you look up generics, and the related searches being on the side, instead of at the bottom of the page is probably going to be helpful when you just can't think of the specific word you're attempting to use during search.
Looking for the big affiliate stuff, Acai in this case, pretty much everything that isn't Wikipedia (at #1) is aff marketing.
Even without the "local" radio button switched, most of the results were from local sites, so it definitely seems to be geared towards finding shit that's near you if you're buying a good or a service. Not quite sure how useful this is going to be information wise.
By and large, I get the feeling that this search engine basically is driving you towards buying shit directly, as opposed to finding information that may lead you to buy shit...
Then again, the internet stopped being an "information superhighway" in the late 90s and just became a superhighway to a superfuckinghugemall...
Time to start figuring what Bing likes to rank people for...
That's just a stray thought, not my actual post.
Anyone used Bing yet?
They jumped the gun a little and released it a couple of days early, so I had a play.
Search relevancy seems pretty decent, especially if you know how to use modifiers and conditions. Easily on par with Google for general searching, and I've actually found it less cluttered with marketing junk when I was looking for specifics with conditions.
I'm fairly impressed by the way it brings up categories for specifics when you look up generics, and the related searches being on the side, instead of at the bottom of the page is probably going to be helpful when you just can't think of the specific word you're attempting to use during search.
Looking for the big affiliate stuff, Acai in this case, pretty much everything that isn't Wikipedia (at #1) is aff marketing.
Even without the "local" radio button switched, most of the results were from local sites, so it definitely seems to be geared towards finding shit that's near you if you're buying a good or a service. Not quite sure how useful this is going to be information wise.
By and large, I get the feeling that this search engine basically is driving you towards buying shit directly, as opposed to finding information that may lead you to buy shit...
Then again, the internet stopped being an "information superhighway" in the late 90s and just became a superhighway to a superfuckinghugemall...
Time to start figuring what Bing likes to rank people for...
