Tech: Bing (search engine)

Subject: BS: Bing
From: Mooh
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 06:18 AM

Bing.

Anyone tried this new search engine?
Any reason to switch from Google?

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Bing
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 06:33 AM

Couldn't find it on Google!

Subject: RE: BS: Bing
From: Mooh
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 07:48 AM

Came up top of Google's list for me. www.bing.com

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Bing
From: Tug the Cox
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 02:12 PM

Erm, it was supposed to be a funny. You know, irony/paradox and that sort of thing

Subject: RE: BS: Bing
From: Mooh
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 02:32 PM

Oh...I thought maybe Google blocked it.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Bing
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 02:41 PM

Bing was great! He single-handedly moved popular song from the age of the tenor voice into the age of the baritone voice.

What's a "search engine"?

Subject: RE: BS: Bing
From: ClaireBear
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 02:57 PM

Seems to work, but I still like Clusty better (www.clusty.com) because of its wonderful clustering left nav bar, which I find spectacularly useful for purposes of narrowing down results.

I never use Google.

C

Subject: RE: BS: Bing
From: PoppaGator
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 03:03 PM

Didn't Bing used to smoke reefer with Satchmo?

Subject: RE: BS: Bing
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 03:09 PM

Is this the clusty address?

http://cf31.clusty.com/search?frontpage=1&v%3aframe=form

Strange address if they want to take themselves seriously. I've never heard of this one before.

Subject: RE: BS: Bing
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 03:26 PM

On a more serious note, I just tried an image search using Bing. It attempted to display around 1000 images on the page. That may be fine for broadband, but it's far more than my dial-up connection can handle without timing out. I couldn't find any way to have it display fewer images per page.

Subject: RE: BS: Bing
From: ClaireBear
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 03:28 PM

Sorry, no www. should have typed http://clusty.com. My browser autocorrects, so I never noticed.

Here's a Clicky.

C

Subject: RE: BS: Bing
From: PoppaGator
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 03:29 PM

Even with a high-speed connection, I would think that 1,000 images on one page would be too small to see or too many to scroll through.

Subject: RE: BS: Bing
From: Mooh
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 05:41 PM

Okay, so far, no reason to switch from Google. Right?

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Bing
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 05:59 PM

Bear in mind that what we're looking at is a "preview" version of Bing, which probably means they haven't worked all the bugs out.

Also, bear in mind that Bing is a Microsoft product, which probably means they never will work all the bugs out.

Subject: RE: BS: Bing
From: EBarnacle
Date: 02 Jun 09 - 11:58 PM

I've used it several times now with no problems. It even found obscure stuff that eluded Ask.

Subject: RE: Tech: Bing (search engine)
From: Rapparee
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 09:00 AM

Still the same sort of old-fashioned search engine: it searches the past, not the present.

Subject: RE: Tech: Bing (search engine)
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 01:57 PM

What we're looking for is one that searches the future.

Subject: RE: Tech: Bing (search engine)
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 03 Jun 09 - 02:03 PM

What is its position on targeted marketing? Being Microsnot I suspect it will collect shedloads of data on users...