Bing! Microsoft just released their revamped Live Search engine and name it Bing. Make sure you have selected “United States” as country and not “Hong Kong SAR”, otherwise, you will just get a Bing Beta rather than a Preview version of Bing.
Google-like Search Result Page
▲ Bing Search Result of “Hong Kong”
▲ Bing Map Search Result of “Hong Kong”
▲ Bing Images Search Result of “Hong Kong”
In sense of user-interface, I can’t really spot any major difference. The look-and-feel of the search result page is even very similar to Google, except Bing has some photo clip art under its logo and a search keyword sidebar are insert on the left.
The sidebar should take a credit, it does list out keyword-related information, e.g. additional keywords, related search phrases and result display options. However, as a decision engine, Bing’s results during I try-out disappointed me as it is not as intelligent as i expected, and it doesn’t differentiate itself from a general search engine to become a real tool to help people to make decisions.
Shopping and Video Search Results Look Better
▲ Bing Shopping Search Result of “Mobile Phone”
▲ Bing Video Search Result of “Britain’s Got Talent”
Bing’s Shopping Search with users & expert reviews, and other product options are great to ease user to compare different product, but i doubt if we will have this features in Hong Kong. And it’s Video Search result listing are awesome too, as we can play the videos within the search result page, of which Google has stopped this features.
In general, Bing surprised me without any suprising features and I can’t see any major features making it as a decision engine as Microsoft Bing team said. I will wait to see for more intelligent search engine in future release.
Extended Reading
- Google and Bing: Plagiarism or … ? by Cappella’s Blogspot
- Bing Launch, Day Two by The Big Money
- Badda-Bing Indeed. by TechCrunch
