Bing 2.0 could be around the corner
Microsoft is getting ready to launch the next iteration of Bing, according to some wayward tweets.
Mary-Jo Foley at our sister site ZDNet spotted a few eager Twitter users spilling the beans on Bing 2.0 following Microsoft's annual company meeting, where employees were apparently given a preview of some new features that will be rolled out over the coming weeks. Some attendees had the changes coming next week, while others thought it would be more of a gradual rollout, but expect changes to Bing shortly.
What might be coming? One attendee said "imagine seeing maps plus pics from the neighborhood of a restaurant to try." That tweet has since been deleted. Another said "bing + silverlight in maps = amazing !! goodbye google." In what is likely not a coincidence, that tweet has also been deleted.
One message spotted by The Seattle P-I from Microsoft employee Luis Bitencourt-Emilio says "Bing 2.0's upcoming search visualization is pretty sexy..." It's not clear whether Microsoft is actually thinking of these changes as a version-style upgrade or a series of gradual tweaks, which seems more common in this market.
Microsoft had no official comment on the potential changes, according to ZDNet, other than saying "We're very excited about some of the new Bing features set to roll out over the next few months, but have nothing to announce today."
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Never touched it again.
The fact that Microsoft is having to resort to paying Yahoo to use their last place search engine pretty much sums up what a piece of garbage Bing is.
protip: no one cares
While I rarely use Bing... I thought it was interesting and wouldn't mind to check out the changes that are coming. So perhaps, no one cares but the guy above you and myself.
That's both funny and sad.
Funny: for obvious reasons.
Sad: because it's true.
Why do you mention Apple? Why? Who else mentioned Apple? Is the article about Apple? Man people like you are such shrivelled boobs.
I also am now running Ubuntu, Gentoo Win7 and Vista64. I don't follow any company like a blind sheep.
I think your username is very telling, thank you for an "unbiased" opinion. If you would clarify what exactly you mean by innovation in bung, or sorry, it is bang, oops, it is bing, i would love to hear.
Until then, I place you in the same category with mistasandman: he posts only to tell us about great results, three times a day, without any specifics.
And I did try the boong. The image search UI is good, but there is a fixed limit of 1000 on the number of images you can view, while the number of results displayed can go into millions. The image results after first couple of dozen, aren't nearly as good as those on Google. And I hate 'jumping' images when you focus on them... So it is better than that "Live" abomination, but quality-wise not nearly as good as Google.
I am sure you are goofler or foogler or boogler or whatever you obiviously did not used BING. I search for images and I don't see image is limited to 1000 results. see for your self
e.g. http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=madonna&FORM=IGRE#
you can try other if you wish.
So search is still in its infancy. There's lots of room for improvement. Whether it comes from Bing or from Google, it is good that the market is moving. Competition is good. Even when it comes from Microsoft.
I don't need favor from any one. I have been using Google for very long period of time, Bing made me switch.
Use it for your self http://www.bing.com/ and you will see what I mean., Really I don't like googl any more, search results in google is nothing more that bunch of meaningless blue link compared to Bing where results are well organized. Only one area google is better is mapping, but not sure how long it will be.
BTW I am the Winner, are you sure you are not talking about your self?
We don't work for Microsoft though.
The web previews are great too. The only area lacking is news search which i dont really use.
Windows. Vista, to be exact. Uh... IE8 in very rare circumstances. Perchance Windows 7 in the future (even though it's nothing more than a reskin of a reskin of XP). Problems.
I don't particularly trust Bing, even though I've tried it and saw no immediate advantages. Search engines are search engines. If someone is searching for "Google" in an attempt to find reasons why Google sucks, then they will be woefully disappointed. If someone is searching in an attempt to find Google itself, then they will be pleased. The fundamental issue regarding accurate search results is flawed due to too many variables. Thus, it depends simply on what the user wants to see: if they want "see also" results (no thanks), photos of random things (not really), and horrible mystery-meat-navigation-style tooltips with random factoids (why?), then Bing is the clear winner. If someone cares about nothing but the search (me), the only graphic on the page being a simple logo (yes, along with anyone using a slow computer/internet), and a good reputation (definitely)... Google wins.
Also, to "bing + silverlight in maps = amazing !! goodbye google."... nobody cares about Silverlight. Absolutely nobody. If the new Maps whatever feature for Bing is powered by Silverlight, it will be a massive failure.
You have no clue do you? Windows 7 is hardly a reskin of XP.
and sorry about your OS misconceptions, again, please dont hit snooze anymore and wake up :) to a happier world.
by the way... silverlight is simply an extension of .net and the wpf (and if you know anything about development...is quite successful!!)... pretty much every application will be writen using it soon...
once developers realize that its almost as simple as a recompile to get those apps to work in the browser via silverlight... its going to explode... and either way... its simply a programming language theres no need to get your panties in a bunch .. there are 10000 or so languages that failed before it...like all languages.. another tool for another job..
Not in touch with the average Internet user are you? You're right about the "nobody cares" part... it's just that most people's "not caring" involves installing Silverlight when it asks. If the application is good they'll like it. Simple as that, 99% don't care about the technology period.
" nobody cares about Silverlight"
Hope you are having fun in your cave.
Apparently you don't stream Netflix...
I would not count on that. Do not get me wrong, I think that .NET is a good platform, but it is closed. The standard is controlled by MS, and MS owns tons of IP around it.
There are cases when Silverlight (or any other .NET application) is a good solution, but I would not count on it ever becoming a standard for developing Internet apps. At the moment, it looks to me like just another way to lock people into using the Win OS.
Open usually win when it comes to Web development.
Apache is bigger than IIS for example.
It is unlikely that .net will dominate the Web.
I moved from fulltime Googler to Fulltime Binging..
and I don't seem to regret it.
I still do occassional Googling.. for old technical articles.. which Bing doesn't seem to have yet.
But .. I love binging a lot.
Like someone else said above.. Bing's home page is what I look forward to ecery day.. It gives me travel options and information.
looking forward to Bing 2.0
Personally I still tend to use Google as I feel I get better results,but I've also tried Bing and I think M$ did a great job.
Has everyone who posted here forgotten that innovation requires competition? Personally I refuse to be a fanboy (Google, M$, Apple, Linux, whatever). Yes I have my favorites, but what I want most is that all of this stuff (the Internet, smartphones, voice recognition, contact management, location based services, the cloud, on and on...) JUST KEEP GETTING BETTER!
I'm looking forward to what Bing is going to force Google to do, and also to the next start-up who will stomp on 'em all.
Hilarious.
And you say Mac fanboys are bad - sheesh!
I see Ballmer has his assistant posting here a lot today...
Now that's classic fanboy paranoia there. Baseless and tasteless. Why don't you just stand up and shout "You Lie!"?
I used bing to read my news, buy lawn mower, water my plant, wash my cat, scrub my armpit.... I even found my wife on bing!
Get I get my cheque now?
The Bingos from Redmond are posting lots of propaganda today.
Bing launched June 1st (3 months before article)... title should have been "Grass is Green, Google Still Far Ahead in Global Search Market"
Google Search= simplicity, and gets me what I want, when i want it.
Bing= annoyance and cool enough to get the attention of teenage girls.
Success at last.
Lol.... Wow! there are a lot of softies posting comments around here. Nice way to promote Bing 2.0 keep it up. I wonder what kind of koolaid they served to SaFeCo when they announce this, lol.
May I add...
I used bing to read my news, buy lawn mower, water my plant, wash my cat, scrub my armpit.... I even found my wife on bing!
Can I get my cheque now?
For example, I recently wanted to know the filght arrival time for Singapore Airlines flight SQ002 to go pick up someone. I tried searching for "sq002" on both Bing and Google. No comparison at all. Bing wins this unscientific contest hands down!
- by d4nowar September 11, 2009 7:28 PM PDT
- This is news? I'd happily forgotten bing existed until I saw this article. OH WELL. Guess I'll go back to happily forgetting about it again.
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