Comments on: Microsoft Bing search engine goes live

By: Concerned

Concerned — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 16:29:42 +0000

Ok…I never requested the site, asked for it to be installed or accepted any dialog that indicated that my search site was being changed. My searches just magically stopped going to Google and started going to “Bing” today. I wouldn’t have even known or cared that it existed except that it usurped my search preferences on me. Am I the only one that has an issue with this?

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:52:22 +0000

I’m not going to lie, but I am impressed. I’ll be trying this is as an alternative to google for a little while.

By: matthias

matthias — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:29:20 +0000

the presence of hot air balloons on the main page tells me that maybe ms doesn’t have anything else to offer… like those “useless” states haha.

By: rederikus

rederikus — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:05:26 +0000

The UI is not a clean as Google’s and it has this dumb picture cluttering up the screen.

It seeesm to work well enough but I’ll be sticking with Google for a while.

The 3D stuff works well in IE8 under Windows 7 RC so who cares about other browsers.

By: Champ513

Champ513 — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 18:05:14 +0000

meh…… not impressed. Google shouldn’t sweat it.

By: @#$%

@#$% — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:36:55 +0000

I just searched for “Live.com is total crap” and found as many results as I expected. Good job!

By: Astro

Astro — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:15:18 +0000

The name reminds me of that Crazy Frog.

Bing Bing!

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:12:21 +0000

Bing.com redirects to Live.com on mobile browsers. Gee, can’t a supposed mobile tech company launch their mobile page at the same time they launch the desktop version?

By: mk

mk — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:44:49 +0000

It’s great. Go Microsoft!

By: Vic

Vic — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:20:47 +0000

Wow it actually works very well, much better than Live, seems like good competition to Google. Also, a nice feature i notice is there is a toolbar on the left that displays related searches and more specific versions of your search, like i searched verizon, and it listed the basic “images”, “videos” etc, but then also had search specific link to “phones”, “batteries” etc which was nice.

Also, it does display & symbols, someone above me said it didn’t

By: Gabriel

Gabriel — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:56:35 +0000

Um, the results for Boy Genius Report show “AT” instead of “AT&T”. Guess Microsoft forgot to encode the “&”. Smooth.

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:55:03 +0000

Very nice. I’m gonna try this out for a while instead of google. Microsoft finally seems to trying a bit harder with all their products now that they have some competition like apple, google, nintendo/sony, etc.

By: netrukie

netrukie — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:12:23 +0000

I am so impressed by the persistence and commitment that Microsoft has shown when it comes to the search innovation need.

I binged and it worked like a magic. outstanding response from bing.com in terms of speed,search accuracy and all those great feature.

good job. I will be on bing now.

By: JJLO

JJLO — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 14:06:32 +0000

I assume that Bing will support all browsers. The 3D function does not work on Safari. It also says that the 2D function is not supported on Safari. Can’t have a search engine that does not support all browsers.

By: ~Phel

~Phel — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:59:43 +0000

@alen…lol, thanks man I needed that on a monday, good stuff

By: Rollins

Rollins — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:03:02 +0000

Well, it looks like Bing Cashback will replace Live Search Cashback, so I’m happy.

By: alen

alen — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:01:02 +0000

in the spirit of Google, i hope they keep it in beta for the next 20 years

By: Dustin

Dustin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 13:00:11 +0000

I just Binged myself. That doesn’t sound quite right …

By: Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:52:26 +0000

thanks for giving us a link to this preview……….

By: J.P. Michaels

J.P. Michaels — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:49:26 +0000

the results I’ve been getting looked almost like a carbon cpy of google.
Do they have something on the go?

By: keymaker

keymaker — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:26:07 +0000

Not bad, it won’t stop me from using google but i got to say it’s like 1000x better than Live Search. Finally Microsoft seems to be going somewhere.

By: doop

doop — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:05:53 +0000

first!

where is the site?