Review of “Bing”
Microsoft has just officially announced the revamp of its search engine. It’s now called “Bing” as was discussed in a previous post. The facility will not be fully available for the general public until June 3 but Emil Protalinski of Ars Technica has been using it for several weeks and has a review. He concludes:
I’ve been testing Bing for a few weeks now, and I’m very disappointed that Microsoft has not addressed the biggest issue that Live Search has: relevance. Google is my default search engine, but I am starting to see how Microsoft’s offering is useful in cases where Google simply doesn’t cut it. That said, however, for day-to-day searches Bing is definitely a mixed bag. The results for some queries blow my mind: how is it possible that the results can be so preposterously useless? Other times, though, a comparison with the old Live Search shows that Bing obviously has had its algorithm tweaked for the better.
Bing is a very good product, especially in the areas where Live Search differentiated itself. While bringing some new flavor to search, it’s not compelling enough to get me to leave Google behind. I will probably use it exactly like I use Live Search, as my fallback option when Google doesn’t turn up what I want. Give Bing a spin, but don’t expect anything revolutionary, just evolutionary.
The new search facility is at Bing.com
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