Bing - bottom of the class
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1.21 Gigawatts wrote:
MSDN had a search function??
FTFY
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Or the standard file search in Windows XP which decides not to bother searching the content of text files that don't have the .txt extension, such as .cs files, by default without a load of faffing around in the registry. It worked in Windows 2000, why must they keep messing with stuff that works?
Dave Parker wrote:
Windows XP which decides not to bother searching the content of text files that don't have the .txt extension, such as .cs files, by default without a load of faffing around in the registry.
I just use a desktop search tool for that.
Kevin
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Try typing STM.NET into Google, Yahoo, Ask and Bing. You should see an entry for Microsoft's STM.NET. But you don't with Bing - unless you surround it with quotes. That's a usability own goal IMO. This is the second time something like this has happened to me with Bing. Little things like this matter.
Kevin
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Kevin McFarlane wrote:
Little things like this matter.
No they don't, JFGI!
Google is my default but I sometimes try alternatives to see whether they've gotten better or not. :)
Kevin
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I was looking for some means of sending feedback to Bing on their page but there's nothing there. But I see there is a forum so I'll post there.
Kevin
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I was looking for some means of sending feedback to Bing on their page but there's nothing there. But I see there is a forum so I'll post there.
Kevin
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Or the standard file search in Windows XP which decides not to bother searching the content of text files that don't have the .txt extension, such as .cs files, by default without a load of faffing around in the registry. It worked in Windows 2000, why must they keep messing with stuff that works?
File search on windows has got worse in each successive iteration since win2k. In vista I just go to the command line these days as I've never managed to find a file through the Search window
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Try typing STM.NET into Google, Yahoo, Ask and Bing. You should see an entry for Microsoft's STM.NET. But you don't with Bing - unless you surround it with quotes. That's a usability own goal IMO. This is the second time something like this has happened to me with Bing. Little things like this matter.
Kevin
You didn't pay them enough! :cool:
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I sent the link of this post to Bing already. At the bottom right corner on bing page, there is a link - feedback in dimmed color.
TOMZ_KV
Ah, the bottom row of my page is obscured by my "Try This Search On" Greasemonkey script banner.
Kevin
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File search on windows has got worse in each successive iteration since win2k. In vista I just go to the command line these days as I've never managed to find a file through the Search window
What about the built-in desktop search in Vista? Won't that do it?
Kevin
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Ah, the bottom row of my page is obscured by my "Try This Search On" Greasemonkey script banner.
Kevin
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Not sure why your Bing page looks different. It could be that it detects user location and shows something different.
TOMZ_KV
The feedback link is there, it's just that I have a Firefox add-on that pops up a narrow bottom window whenever I do a search on Google, Yahoo, etc. This allows one-click switching to alternative search engines (i.e., without having to re-enter the search). If I close the window then the feedback link is visible. It's just unfortunate that on Bing that row is right at the bottom. This is also the case with Yahoo but not with Google, Ask or Wikipedia. Anyway, I've now sent feedback. :)
Kevin
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I'm pretty sure that anyone who had suffered msdn search knew exactly how good Bing was going to be.
Ha,one time I was searching for something on MSDN and couldn't find it no matter how I searched. So I went to google and typed my query the way I did the first time and the very first result was the MSDN page I wanted. I haven't used MSDN's search since.
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Ha,one time I was searching for something on MSDN and couldn't find it no matter how I searched. So I went to google and typed my query the way I did the first time and the very first result was the MSDN page I wanted. I haven't used MSDN's search since.
I'd love to see balmers face if he realised just how many developers use google to search for msdn pages, i bet the referrer links would make great reading