Censorship or Bing's poor search algorithm
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How come Bing will not return a link to http://www.openoffice.org/ no matter what you search for?
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Ok - as far is today is concerned - your post should have said - "Why Bing sucks today" - or have we done that already?
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How come Bing will not return a link to http://www.openoffice.org/ no matter what you search for?
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
Interesting... Didn't believe you at first, but tried a bunch of keywords, and can't get that URL to show up...
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How come Bing will not return a link to http://www.openoffice.org/ no matter what you search for?
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
It comes up in the top two for me when I search on "open office" or "openoffice". What terms are you using?
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How come Bing will not return a link to http://www.openoffice.org/ no matter what you search for?
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
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How come Bing will not return a link to http://www.openoffice.org/ no matter what you search for?
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
Bing[^] No problem: first hit.
me, me, me "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven
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It comes up in the top two for me when I search on "open office" or "openoffice". What terms are you using?
Are you sure? I get the openoffice.org wikipedia page, and the openoffice.org page on sun.com, followed by a sketchy parked site at openoffice_.com_... (latter search only)
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Bing[^] No problem: first hit.
me, me, me "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven
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This is what I see (image on skydrive - work safe but slow): BIng and OPen Office[^]
me, me, me "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven
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It comes up in the top two for me when I search on "open office" or "openoffice". What terms are you using?
Double Check your links.
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
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Are you sure? I get the openoffice.org wikipedia page, and the openoffice.org page on sun.com, followed by a sketchy parked site at openoffice_.com_... (latter search only)
ditto, no links to openoffice.org
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That is strange though. It even manages to find pages on subdomains, while completely ignoring the front page. Meanwhile, Google pulls the whole menu straight into search results. :~
I didn't say it was malice. I just asked the question.
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
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This is what I see (image on skydrive - work safe but slow): BIng and OPen Office[^]
me, me, me "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven
That's a link to "www.freebase.com", a site I'm not terribly familiar with but which appears to be a wiki-thing. (Followed by the link to wikipedia).
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This is what I see (image on skydrive - work safe but slow): BIng and OPen Office[^]
me, me, me "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven
Yes, it says OpenOffice.org but click the link. You can't get to the homepage from Bing.
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
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How come Bing will not return a link to http://www.openoffice.org/ no matter what you search for?
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
surprisingly, it works as expected. (Binged "Open Office" from Canada).
Watched code never compiles.
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How come Bing will not return a link to http://www.openoffice.org/ no matter what you search for?
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
I get this link h://openoffice.org-suite.com/index.asp?aff=101&camp=gg_oo_us&se=google[^] As 3rd result from searching open office (with space, no quotes, with "Only English" turned on) I'm not yet sure what to think about this though edit: broken the link
modified on Monday, March 29, 2010 1:59 PM
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I get this link h://openoffice.org-suite.com/index.asp?aff=101&camp=gg_oo_us&se=google[^] As 3rd result from searching open office (with space, no quotes, with "Only English" turned on) I'm not yet sure what to think about this though edit: broken the link
modified on Monday, March 29, 2010 1:59 PM
Close. But why won't bing return a link to the homepage.
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
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How come Bing will not return a link to http://www.openoffice.org/ no matter what you search for?
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
I have to vote in favor of the "censorship" theory... Even if you go into their advanced search, and specify that it should ONLY return results from openoffice.org, it STILL won't return the simple home page... Only subdomains... See here: http://www.bing.com/search?q=openoffice.org+site%3Aopenoffice.org&form=QBRE&qb=2[^]
Proud to have finally moved to the A-Ark. Which one are you in?
Author of the Guardians Saga (Sci-Fi/Fantasy novels) -
Yes, it says OpenOffice.org but click the link. You can't get to the homepage from Bing.
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
Click on the first link that says: OpenOffice Suite Free and you're on the OpenOffice site.
me, me, me "The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!" Larry Niven
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I get this link h://openoffice.org-suite.com/index.asp?aff=101&camp=gg_oo_us&se=google[^] As 3rd result from searching open office (with space, no quotes, with "Only English" turned on) I'm not yet sure what to think about this though edit: broken the link
modified on Monday, March 29, 2010 1:59 PM
Asks for an email before letting you download... Goes on about some sort of "membership"... sounds mighty sketchy (given that the openoffice.org site takes you directly to the download).
