Bing got launched. And the blogosphere is all ga-ga about the incumbent comparisons between Google and Bing. You will find many raving about how the new search interface from big brother Microsoft is, yet you will find many ranting about the quality of search results.
I personally love the freshness Bing brings to the search world and would be trying it for a few days before making up my mind on it. But for an old googler like me, (whose interface to internet is through iGoogle, google search bars, etc), to migrate over to a new search engine is a big leap of faith. Not sure how long I am going to experiment with it.
What I like about Bing?
- the ability to preview your video searches, thats something new!
- the categorization of search results in the left pane, now this brings in the idea of conceptual search into mainstream search results. I personally like it, but not sure how many of the regular web surfers would love this cookie.
Whats in a name? Is Steve Ballmer thinking that people would eventually use the word bing as a synonym for searching on the internet? Well this could be answered in a few weeks on how people embrace it.
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