Comments on: Bing balloons into public view

Microsoft's big bet on search begins to be publicly available, with the opinions rolling in fast and furious.

[kwhsy82]

I'm not rooting for MSFT to rule more of the universe, but I must admit: I took a half dozen searches I ran Friday on Google, ran them on Bing, and the results from Bing were better. One query returned better info; i like the links to the websites obviously related to the query (like the restaurant's website), and it was fast. Just one person's opinion.

[eltoro2827]

same here.

[a85]

+1

[mista77]

Bing, fries are done.

[ofmyony]

It is visually pleasing. Would like more Multi Media integration in search results. I like the customer service numbers a great addition. I also like related topics and the left hand pane.

Now only if they could give me some some quality cloud services that are integrated into the more tab, aka Google Docs. I might just use this for a while to give Google a wake up call, I want more Multi-Media integration Google.

[ppgreat]

Besides looking for another revenue stream for itself and attempting to unseat Google, I guess I don't understand MS's logic in putting the time and resources into Bing. After doing a dozen different searches and comparing the results, I don't see anything to make me shift from googling to binging.

[jessiethe3rd]

Competition... Google's capabilities on search and its dominance are good and bad... just Like Microsoft on the desktop - good and bad.

[empirestatebuddy]

i don't think it's a bad thing that different search engines give us different results... in general. it seems pretty clear that bing does some things better than google, and google does some things better than bing. it's called competition. it's called capitalism. it's good for all of us. now that google has microsoft breathing down its neck, google will try harder... and so will microsoft.

I've tried it, i like google more though

[eltoro2827]

have you seen that little line that follows you on the right hand side and shows you a preview of page without opeing? pretty sweet!

[bxwatso]

I have used Bing all morning, and so far, I like it.

There is nothing I have found so far that is much better than Google, but also nothing much worse. For MS to have come from far, far behind to now competing in the same league is quite an accompishment.

Also, FWIW, I have always liked MS's photos and graphics from Vista and Win7, so hopefully Bing will give me a bit of that going forward.

[jessiethe3rd]

Bing ROCKS!! I like the interface, layout, and look and feel of the site. The results are solid - yes, Google gets some things better (relevance), however, Bing's sorting, layout, presentation, organization is all out better. Google looks like web 1.0 in it's delivery.... Bing is definitely 2.0!

[pentest]

No such thing as Web 2.0.

So for better looks you get what exactly? Less relevant results?

Yeah, it is better.

[Tui Pohutukawa]

Want to see some real differences? Do an image search on "Samantha Ryan" - First in Bing, then Google. LOL!

[goodspeed8701]

Bing gave me a better result than google. i searched goodlick jonathan. the search was almost identical. but Bing has a better result.

[AlaskaHome1959]

Microsoft has two basic marketing tactics: 1) Buy a quality competing product, rape it of it's features, slap them into an existing MicroSoft product that is crap, then proclam how great they are at designing quality software; 2) When they can't buy a competing product, they just slap a new new name on the same old piece of crap product and try to persuade everyone that it is now (magically) quality software. The Bing/Live/MSN/Microsoft Search renaming parade is just more of the latter. Jerry was right not to sell out his baby, if for no other reason than to illustrate Microsofts inability to create a quality and competitive product when they can't control the playing field.

[monkeyfun14]

When did Live and MSN Search have the features of Bing?

[eltoro2827]

been using bing all morning and so far so good. many here at work are also happy with bing.

[eltoro2827]

servers are close to crashing.

[umcrouc0]

Hmm. So my first interaction with Bing isn't a good one. You can't sort news stories by date. And it doesn't seem to group the stories into categories do you can sort results if you look up something that has more than one news thread or something that could return multiple results. That's pretty useless.

[cs2cd]

Now try "sex" or "porn" in bing, deactivate safe search and go to video. You are now on a porn site without leaving bing.

GOOGLE KILLER!

[LLIB_SETAG]

BING?
Oooooohhhh, now I get it.
Badda BING, Badda BOOM!
We're going to "whack" Google where it hurts!

Microsoft : The Godfathers of software.

"put down the mouse, pick up a canolli..."

[LLIB_SETAG]

Bing?
Like the cherries?

Goggle : Cherry
Bing : Pits

[lvelasquez3]

I think it's great that we see Microsoft trying to gain ground in a market where they are clobbered. There's nothing wrong with a little competition and only makes the products we use today better. I think if we accepted as the worlds search engine, we would see a complacent Google. New ideas people!

[EcuadorHomesOnline]

I've tried it a few times today on real world things that I would have looked up on live.com anyway. So far so good. Search results were quick and perfect. Graphics and presentation are nice. Way to go Microsoft!

[Mergatroid Mania]

I might consider switching to Bing if: When doing a search, the first items that come up are not paid-for ads or web pages that paid to be first in line.

When I do a search, I'm looking for information, not ads and stores and anything else that people make money from. If I want a price, or store I'll include that in my search.

If they don't do it that way, then it's just another Google.

I'll give it a test tonight when I get off work. Some of the comments are interesting and have made me curious.