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- ileftfark, on 11/04/2009, -3/+53Bing video search rocks.
For porn. - paulney, on 11/04/2009, -0/+17...which is what the internet is for.
- ScaryUK, on 11/04/2009, -6/+20Bing's maps are a lot better than Googles. here they've teamed up with Multimap which uses proper map sources (i.e. Ordanance Survey) rather than the innaccurate ones drawn in-house like Google. The 'Birds Eye View' is very nice too
- Spoomeister, on 11/04/2009, -1/+13Yeah, the little preview video thumbnails will even show for pornos that aren't online anymore, or that are in different video formats than your computer supports!
...so i've heard. - darkchild82, on 11/04/2009, -9/+21Stupid name, bad marketing campaign... but not a bad product at all.
- shakesmcgee1, on 11/04/2009, -4/+16Everybody keeps talking about how Bing is a stupid name for the search engine...but lets not forget there is a reason for Bing. Its meant to make people think of the sound that comes up in movies and cartoons when a character has an idea. We all criticize the name of Bing but Google is a play off the ignorance of people not known how to spell googol, the number. We're used to Google which is why we like it. If Larry Page and Sergey Brin had made everything the same, but named their search engine Bing, we'd be using Bing and criticizing Microsoft for naming their search engine Google.
Also, Bing, as this article says, has a lot of great features. So before everybody criticizes it I think they should try it out for a little while. - fxu1989, on 11/04/2009, -1/+8"In a search for dog, I could narrow my search by breed, select image size and orientation, choose color over black and white, photograph over illustration, and those showing just the dog’s face. "
Google can also do that...?
http://images.google.com/advanced_image_search?hl= ... - stung47000, on 11/04/2009, -2/+8Kinda like every other search toolbar? Seriously, all the big ones do it.
- Allanon, on 11/04/2009, -2/+8Bad Marketing? Having TV show characters use Bing as if it was a tool they use everyday is great marketing. I skip commercials with my Tivo but I always stop at the Bing commercial because it is using the actual characters from the show I'm watching and I'm not sure if it's a commercial or part of the show. It's annoying but they do get me to watch.
- exscind, on 11/04/2009, -13/+19What Bing does best is leech its toolbars onto unsuspecting users.
- Turious, on 11/04/2009, -1/+6Our hate of the name is all about context. Yes, 15 years ago, Bing would have been a revolutionary name. But these days, it's just another web 2.0 loaded attempt at a buzzword.
As for the service, I used a lot of Blind Search a while back. While most of the time, the result I needed was in the Google column, Bing surprised me a few times.
http://blindsearch.fejus.com/ - pw378, on 11/04/2009, -3/+6I guess you've never used video.google.com with safe-search off....
Blows bing away. er, maybe bad choice of words for this topic.... - Strenoth, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3allanon, what shows/channel? I haven't caught any of these commercials yet.
- tdubs, on 11/04/2009, -3/+6One word: cashback.
- welshie, on 11/04/2009, -2/+5for "Teamed up with", read "Bought the company". Multimap was good well before Microsoft showed any interest.
- chillymanilli, on 11/04/2009, -1/+4Really? Would be nice if their aerial photos were taken this century! Looking at my house on it and all you see is the quarry it used to be. The Quarry was developed over 10 years ago. My works vehicle tracking software uses Microsoft’s map and they are utterly useless. Half the roads are not shown on it and like I said above the aerial photos are decades out of date.
Google on the other hand shows a photo that is no more than 12 months old!! - inactive, on 11/04/2009, -3/+5...you can't steal images.
GTFO. - gl77, on 11/04/2009, -3/+5it doesnt NEED it...purely for aesthetics and some of those photos are simply mind blowing, .anyway, by your way of thinking, why does Google need to commemorate every holiday by making little cutesey holiday themed images out of it's logo?
- louisut, on 11/04/2009, -4/+6dugg for the general message.bing's travel search is first rate. the only major airline missing is southwest, but none of the other travel aggregators have them either.
- rag1, on 11/04/2009, -1/+3Bing uses a revolutionary technology called frames.
- shakesmcgee1, on 11/04/2009, -1/+3I like that site...its pretty cool.
- Demens, on 11/04/2009, -3/+5This is why i don't use Microsofts web services unless i have to:
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/8443/bing.png
- If you do not live in the US, they will just block stuff from you for no good reasons. Like we have no video-search in the whole bing service at all if i don't bother to switch countries every time i give it a chance. - mabsark, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2Just google redtube, and you'll get results for redtube obviously, and loads of other sites just like redtube.
Google Video Search and Bing Video Search?
The force is very weak in you guys. - WiseGuy1020, on 11/04/2009, -3/+5Actually Bing filters results to Microsoft's liking. Try Googling linux or ubuntu. Then do it on Bing. Notice the differences.
http://www.linux.com/community/blogs/Bing-is-not-G ...
I know it is from linux.com but that does not change the facts. - chillymanilli, on 11/04/2009, -1/+2what country you in as that particular search works fine for me in the UK?
- exscind, on 11/04/2009, -2/+3Too true, but at least they aren't hemorrhaging with the schizophrenic identity crisis that is Bing, Windows Live, and MSN.
- Demens, on 11/04/2009, -1/+2Finland. Sometimes i think MS hates us, but i still try to love them.
That screenshot was from the visual search, not the normal one. - Strenoth, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1ohhh, forgot about those. Have seen that. But he was saying something about characters from the TV shows, and that I do not recall.
- cplusplus, on 11/04/2009, -5/+6But why must a search engine have a photo of the day?
A search engine needs that like a fish needs a bicycle (to adapt an old saying). - DiggCrusher, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1And Google will never overtake Yahoo...
- samkityoung, on 11/04/2009, -2/+3I don't think you've used it.
- samkityoung, on 11/04/2009, -1/+2Life isn't simply utility - there is something to be said about aesthetics. A more appropriate analogy would be "a search engine needs a photo of the day like a bicycle needs a paint job. Necessary? No. Appreciated? Yes, by most."
- schleppy, on 11/04/2009, -3/+4Their cashback system does indeed work, it's just SLOW. It took a month and a half to get cash back on a TV we bought. But hey, a month and a half wait is better than no cashback at all.
- irishjays, on 11/04/2009, -2/+3Sing Christmas songs?
- inactive, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Have you actually tried any of those searches yourself?
I mean, I just typed in "linux" and got a slew of straight up linux sites.
Auto-complete showed "linux distros" "linux commands" etc... nothing like they claimed in the article... - ScaryUK, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1@ Welshie: Yes, I've always used Multimap
@ChillyManilli: I don't know where you live but in the UK Google Maps are very inaccurate. They've improved (when they first launched my local area was a right mess) but are still not reliable enough. I've just checked out the map of my road and have spotted at least 6 mistakes.
Multimap use Collins Bartholomew (who have produced road maps for many years) and Ordanance Survey (the official government owned map makers) therefore are very accurate.
The aerials are a bit older on Multimap, but (at least in London) but certainly not a decade old but the birds eye views are fairly up to date and much more useful than the aerials - mabsark, on 11/04/2009, -2/+3"What Bing does Best"
Let me guess...hmm...err...erm...fail when compared to Google? - saucercrab, on 11/04/2009, -5/+6I installed Silverlight yesterday trying to view some stuff on xbox.com. It took 2 minutes and was a typical quick and easy install similar to java or flash.... what's the big deal?
- pw378, on 11/04/2009, -1/+2http://www.google.com/search?q=dogs&hl=en& ...
- Barbarino, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1I use customize google for FF and yesterday for no reason I clicked on the lycos link the ext adds to google searches, I kinda of liked the lay out of lycos and gave me the page I was looking for. Haven't been on there since the 90's...
- JohnnySoftware, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Microsoft just announced adding a couple social web features to their MSN portal. You will be able to monitor Facebook and Twitter tweets on your page. Plus, they are pointing out that Bing indexes Twitter tweets.
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/1814 ...
Yahoo already added this ability to monitor those social web things and a lot more on your profile page.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/
I think this is becoming just another standard feature of web portals. - rgdot, on 11/07/2009, -0/+1I think the image search part is the only part google is beaten by others. Every time I decide to give it a try Bing seems to have better and more correct results.
- Allanon, on 11/05/2009, -1/+1The ones I remember are from the The Philanthropist and The Rachel Zoe Project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nt2r0ibNmJU
http://www.geeksugar.com/4392305 - JCEEZ, on 11/04/2009, -1/+1The Bing TV commercials are on all the time.
Something about like... search overload and the dude just starts going on a stream of consciousness. - datdamonfoo, on 11/04/2009, -1/+1Bing is a premium search engine, that's why they don't care if they have a large percentage of users. It would dilute their branding if everyone started using Bing.
- millardiii, on 11/14/2009, -0/+0Au contraire mon frere! I have used it more than you can imagine, never on purpose. For instance, I am about to change my home page away from MSN.com because every time I type a web address, the delay loop captures it into a bing search. Almost daily, one of the 7 computers that I use changes its default search engine to bing, and I get to change it back when I get useless searches. I am now in the process of putting entries into my hosts files to redirect bing.com to googles IP address.
I tried bing a couple of times, was unimpressed. Now I cannot avoid the thing. What a worthless piece of excrement. - grin, on 11/08/2009, -1/+0Everybody knows that you leave some tidbits about yourself when you do a search on any site. Those who trust Microsoft with that info can use Bing. I will use Google.
- JohnnySoftware, on 11/05/2009, -2/+1The article says that Bing puts a lot of images into its user interface. I don't want a search engine to do that unless I tell it to do it.
The reason is obvious. Image file exploits come up every year that infect computers by putting dodgy values in certain data fields of the binary image file. JPEG, GIF, WMF - those and more have been exploited in the not at all distant past.
Microsoft knows it. They had to patch their OS for it. Their Security Response Center posted an article in their blog about it.
Heck, the WMF exploit even has its own Wikipedia page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Metafile_vuln ...
Here is another Microsoft security bulletin about the dangers of JPEG files for Windows users:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin ...
If Microsoft gets these files off other sites, if they do not scan them very carefully for flaws before presenting them, it is possible that a bad field value or something might slip through. They might scale images down before displaying them but that does not rule out the possibility someone who knows that Bing does could still get it to wind up passing a virus via an image file.
It is not just Windows. Mac OS X has had issues for at least a couple image file types that required OS patches. Firefox rewrote some of their media image processing when they went from 3.0 to 3.5 series. They fixed bugs in that new implementation as recently as 3.5.4 to solve memory buffer issues.
As crazy as it is to say image files are not inherently safe - image files are not inherently safe. One could be invented that was easy to implement in a super safe way but we would not use it today. It would not have enough data compression to make it attractive from a memory footprint and bandwidth consumption standpoint.
One of the things I have always loved about Google Adsense ads is no images. I can read the next.
This year a lot of malware was spread by tainted image files via advertising. Syndicated ads included on web sites that seemed like innocuous little money earners for the site owners. But they were hosting malware.
The ad image spread viruses tend to hit news sites fairly often - the trendy blog based sites and the austere named sites run by corporations your granddaddy used to watch broadcast the TV news or print the daily paper. - kernel16, on 11/04/2009, -2/+1Bing is my new search engine!
- pw378, on 11/04/2009, -4/+3I like Bing commercials as well... Every time I see one Microsoft's bank account losses a little more cash while Google gains a little more market share..
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