Google is great, but is Bing better?!

AstroJunk (Jonathan) · #1 02-06-2009, 09:31 PM

http://www.bing.com/?cc=au

Love em or loathe em, Microsoft's latest offering is the best I've competitor to Google that I have seen in a long while.

It wins for me because AAQ gets top ranking

(I'm so shallow)

leinad (Dan) · #2 02-06-2009, 09:48 PM

All bing, but no bling.

Interesting that you can preview video before selecting to watch.
Maps appear verrrrry slow to load, it appears that whilst stuck loading, you cant click on the other links(news, video, web, images) to go back.

Major flaw in beta

All testing in Firefox.

Google will still rule as the preferred Search engine.
Microsoft should have saved this for Windows 7 release.

AstroJunk (Jonathan) · #3 02-06-2009, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by leinad

Maps appear verrrrry slow to load, it appears that whilst stuck loading, you cant click on the other links(news, video, web, images) to go back.

No issues in IE8 or Firefox for me, but chrome not happy with it - but that's hardly a surprise

Jen · #4 02-06-2009, 10:09 PM

Hachi · #5 02-06-2009, 11:02 PM

This has nothing on good ol' google. The default amount of images it shows in the search results is a little confusing.. Is it loading only what you see and then loading new images as you scroll down? Because thats both good and bad at the same time (Bad because Internet in Aus sucks and I don't want it chewing up my bandwidth)..

It's a cool approach from Microsoft though. But nothing amazing enough to win out over google.

AstroJunk (Jonathan) · #6 02-06-2009, 11:11 PM

The videos are nice, but not something I personally use often.

I very much like the ability to navigate the links on the page of the 'result' itself by hovering on the bar to the right of the page - hard to explain, but try it and see.

Luckilly, it only caches a few images and loads more as required 'google earth' style as you scroll down

Still a way to go to userp the big G.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #7 02-06-2009, 11:14 PM

Google Chrome wins hands down for me.
You shallow? no never.

If I do a search on myself on Bing I only get 10 links, with Chrome I get 20.
Now that's shallow.

Wavytone · #8 02-06-2009, 11:15 PM

IMHO some ling but no BING - doesn't find what i was looking for as well as Google, and fewer matches per page.

The best search engine I've ever seen was Copernic, it hit multiple search engines concurrently and merged the results. Sadly it has gone the way of the dodo.

DJDD · #9 03-06-2009, 09:42 AM

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Originally Posted by AstroJunk

It wins for me because AAQ gets top ranking

(I'm so shallow)

who or what is AAQ?

Omaroo (Chris Malikoff) · #10 03-06-2009, 09:47 AM

I for one am pretty impressed. I've just given it a right-royal and it's incredibly fast. Far faster (by impression) than Google for the same search arguments I just gave it and far more results delivered. Well ranked too. For a beta - I think that it's going to be very good when released.

DJDD · #11 03-06-2009, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Omaroo

I for one am pretty impressed. I've just given it a right-royal and it's incredibly fast. Far faster (by impression) than Google for the same search arguments I just gave it and far more results delivered. Well ranked too. For a beta - I think that it's going to be very good when released.

I have not given it a "right-royal" but i agree it was quite fast.
howeevr, following jjjnettie's lead I searched for my name, without quoting, and produced 6000 results in Bing and 350 in Google.

so, is google better able to match non-quoted search strings than Bing?

when I quote my name then Google generates only about 6 and Bing about 125.

But, i know that Google used to produce about 200 results when I quoted my name. where did I go? hmmm...

it will come down to personal preference in the end:
- do you like micosoft?
- do you hate microsoft?
- do you support google?
- do you support google even though its "good corporate citizen" persona is really just a faux-persona?
- do you like google's logo or bing's background?
- do you like the font used on the results page?

AstroJunk (Jonathan) · #12 03-06-2009, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by DJDD

who or what is AAQ?

Use Bing and find out

DJDD · #13 03-06-2009, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by AstroJunk

Use Bing and find out

touche!

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #14 03-06-2009, 01:45 PM

But with those results you got. How many were actually "you" and not an unrelated topic or link?

DJDD · #15 03-06-2009, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by jjjnettie

But with those results you got. How many were actually "you" and not an unrelated topic or link?

exactly...

unquoted name in google produces less, but more relevant, results than in bing. perhaps google assumes two non-dictionary words next to each other represents a name and so looks for groupings in search page results.

interestingly, earlier today my "quoted name" in google produced very few results (6) but a few hours later i get 1000-odd (obviously not all me but quite a few).

earlier, all of the references to scientific papers was missing but they are back...hmmm...

you cannot trust search engines...

i quite like bing's interface and font.

Terry B · #16 03-06-2009, 10:59 PM

I tried this today also and "Binged" my name.
My surname is not very common and most of the its were either me or a distant relative. Interestingly one name came up that I didn't know about. A person with my surname was one of the soldiers that went over the top and was killed at the battle of "The Nek" at Gallipoli.
I hadn't known of any relatives being at Gallipoli before finding this site.

MrB (Simon) · #17 03-06-2009, 11:18 PM

I searched for Google with Bing, and Bing with Google....
#1 hit on both... good to see they're fighting fairly!

Enchilada · #18 03-06-2009, 11:34 PM

Bing has only one advantage. If you translate a page you get
both the original and the translation in a split screen!! Neato - even from the useless useful Micro$oft.