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  • N NormDroid

    Bing [^]I quite like it, just got break the habit of typing www.google.com.

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    Simon P Stevens
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    I quite like the little page preview thingy at the right side of every result. In terms of accessibility design though it's not obviously discoverable, you have to move you mouse over the little line/ball graphic. I'm unsure about the image on the main page. I'm not quite sure what it's trying to convey. It's just a photo of a seaside town. I think they would be better off with something more abstract. Good luck to them though, variety is the spice of life and all that.

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    • N NormDroid

      Bing [^]I quite like it, just got break the habit of typing www.google.com.

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      Norm .net wrote:

      I quite like it

      Nah, not for me - yet. To beat google you have to be better than google, offer something different. At the moment, that's just a 'google-wannabe', like that culi thing a while back. Or cool, or cuil or whatever it was called. Microsoft under-estimated search for too long and are now paying the price me thinks. :)

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        Bing [^]I quite like it, just got break the habit of typing www.google.com.

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        Dave Parker
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        You type in the search engine address? I've been using some kind of search box in the web browser for as far as I can remember - in FireFox there's one just to the right of the address bar which can be set to use whatever search engine you want and I thought IE had something similar these days.

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        • N NormDroid

          Bing [^]I quite like it, just got break the habit of typing www.google.com.

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          Kevin McFarlane
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          The little pop-ups on the right are quite slick. However, I can't see anything here that makes me think this is miles better than Live Search. I'll probably try it for a bit out of curiosity as I have a couple of one-click Firefox extensions that make it easy to switch to it from a Google search without having to retype the search terms.

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            You type in the search engine address? I've been using some kind of search box in the web browser for as far as I can remember - in FireFox there's one just to the right of the address bar which can be set to use whatever search engine you want and I thought IE had something similar these days.

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            phannon86
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            I don't even do that half the time, a good portion of the time if you type in what you want, like a search query into the address bar, it will just redirect you to a relevant result, maybe the first Google search result? I'm not sure, but it saves another precious 10 seconds :laugh:

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              I don't even do that half the time, a good portion of the time if you type in what you want, like a search query into the address bar, it will just redirect you to a relevant result, maybe the first Google search result? I'm not sure, but it saves another precious 10 seconds :laugh:

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              Me too :thumbsup:

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              • D Dave Parker

                You type in the search engine address? I've been using some kind of search box in the web browser for as far as I can remember - in FireFox there's one just to the right of the address bar which can be set to use whatever search engine you want and I thought IE had something similar these days.

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                0x3c0
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                I've added keyword search to my Fx installation, so I just type "msdn system.string", and it searches MSDN; I've got a similar arrangement with Google, Wikipedia, Wolfram|Alpha, Bing and Google Maps. It's a great time-saver

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                • N NormDroid

                  Bing [^]I quite like it, just got break the habit of typing www.google.com.

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                  0x3c0
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                  It's fine, until I searched for the letter b and Bing showed a page about Chlamydia as the first result :|

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                    It's fine, until I searched for the letter b and Bing showed a page about Chlamydia as the first result :|

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                    Henry Minute
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                    You must have a poxy computer!

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                    • S Simon P Stevens

                      I quite like the little page preview thingy at the right side of every result. In terms of accessibility design though it's not obviously discoverable, you have to move you mouse over the little line/ball graphic. I'm unsure about the image on the main page. I'm not quite sure what it's trying to convey. It's just a photo of a seaside town. I think they would be better off with something more abstract. Good luck to them though, variety is the spice of life and all that.

                      Simon

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                      Jonathan Darka
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                      Simon Stevens wrote:

                      I quite like the little page preview thingy at the right side of every result.

                      I like this too - had the same problems as you though in finding it... But I will give it a try, getting bored with google anyway.


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                        It's fine, until I searched for the letter b and Bing showed a page about Chlamydia as the first result :|

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                        Kevin McFarlane
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                        Does that in the UK version but not in the US one.

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                        • N NormDroid

                          Bing [^]I quite like it, just got break the habit of typing www.google.com.

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                          PIEBALDconsult
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                          I want my Live Search back. I don't want "features"; I just want to frickin' search.

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                          • N NormDroid

                            SK Genius wrote:

                            Slightly different results though

                            Probably not as skewed as googles revenue generating algorithm.

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                            Dan Neely
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                            assuming it's reasonably successful :rolleyes: the gaming of the system will commence shortly.

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                            • N NormDroid

                              Bing [^]I quite like it, just got break the habit of typing www.google.com.

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                              Steve Dubyo
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                              :omg: :wtf: bing.com is blocked here at work. Oh well, it would take something extremely special to replace google for me anyway.

                              ;-]

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                                :omg: :wtf: bing.com is blocked here at work. Oh well, it would take something extremely special to replace google for me anyway.

                                ;-]

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                                ricmil42
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                                Same here. Too bad, I'd like to try it.

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                                • N NormDroid

                                  Bing [^]I quite like it, just got break the habit of typing www.google.com.

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                                  IdUnknown
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                                  It looks like it works pretty well, but I can't stand the name. The Friends episode where they kept on saying one of the character last name just get stuck in my head. Bing... Bing.... Bing.... Bing. Ahhh ahhh.. I will stick with google, unless they change the name.

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                                    Bing [^]I quite like it, just got break the habit of typing www.google.com.

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                                    Todd Smith
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                                    Since when are Preferences called "Extras". Come on MS there's a reason google is easy to use lol.

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                                    • N NormDroid

                                      Bing [^]I quite like it, just got break the habit of typing www.google.com.

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                                      Mladen Jankovic
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                                      It allows you to search Google: http://www.bing.com/search?q=google&go=&form=QBRE[^]. Fair play :)

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                                      • N NormDroid

                                        Bing [^]I quite like it, just got break the habit of typing www.google.com.

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                                        buachaill cliste
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                                        Well looks like lmgtfy might be soon out of buisness... ;) see here http://www.lmbtfy.com/[^] :laugh:

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                                        • N NormDroid

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                                          Shog9 0
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                                          Results appear to be heavily skewed towards recently-updated pages vs. the heavily-linked pages that Google promotes. Which could be good, if it reduces the value of link-spam... But i'd have to hope there's something else going on, or it would merely encourage revision-spam. Appears to work well so far for looking up APIs on MSDN... If they Do The Right Thing and use it for F1 help in VS2010, then i'll be happy with it.

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