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I don't use Bing search, but I switched to Bing maps after Google's last set of changes rendered their map site effectively unusable. Bing maps has been.... rea

I don't use Bing search, but I switched to Bing maps after Google's last set of changes rendered their map site effectively unusable. Bing maps has been.... really nice. I like it. It does what I want. I was not expecting that.

frik 10y ago
Hasn't the Bing map technology been recently sold out to Uber? It seems so. http://www.recode.net/2015/6/29/11563964/microsoft-to-stop-collecting-own-map-data-sells-part-of-business-to http://www.recode.net/2015/6/29/11563964/microsoft-to-stop-c...
- marssaxman 10y ago
  Hadn't heard about that. Still works better than Google maps, though - not that I'm making much of a claim by saying so. I cannot imagine what the designers of the current Google maps site were thinking.
- detaro 10y ago
  > Microsoft already gets much of its map data from Nokia and other partners, but had been collecting its own aerial, 3-D and street-level maps. It will now source those images from partners as well, focusing its Bing Maps work on the user experience that overlays the map data and imagery. Doesn't sound like it will affect the user experience much.
mrweasel 10y ago
Bing maps is a great service, but you have to know it's there to use it. There's no link to the maps service on the Bing front page or the search result page. You need to know the URL. bing.com/maps is pretty easy to guess, but why hide it? I'm also a bit surprise that Bing video search is no longer available, at least not in Denmark.
- toomanybeersies 10y ago
  maps.bing.com also works. So do images.bing.com and news.bing.com, so I guess they're following the Google schema for that. Bing video search is available for me in New Zealand, interesting that it doesn't work for you in Denmark.
- marssaxman 10y ago
  That never actually occurred to me; I just went for maps.bing.com after being frustrated one too many times by maps.google.com, and it worked.

frik 10y ago

Hasn't the Bing map technology been recently sold out to Uber? It seems so. http://www.recode.net/2015/6/29/11563964/microsoft-to-stop-collecting-own-map-data-sells-part-of-business-to http://www.recode.net/2015/6/29/11563964/microsoft-to-stop-c...

marssaxman 10y ago
Hadn't heard about that. Still works better than Google maps, though - not that I'm making much of a claim by saying so. I cannot imagine what the designers of the current Google maps site were thinking.
detaro 10y ago
> Microsoft already gets much of its map data from Nokia and other partners, but had been collecting its own aerial, 3-D and street-level maps. It will now source those images from partners as well, focusing its Bing Maps work on the user experience that overlays the map data and imagery. Doesn't sound like it will affect the user experience much.

mrweasel 10y ago

Bing maps is a great service, but you have to know it's there to use it. There's no link to the maps service on the Bing front page or the search result page. You need to know the URL. bing.com/maps is pretty easy to guess, but why hide it? I'm also a bit surprise that Bing video search is no longer available, at least not in Denmark.

toomanybeersies 10y ago
maps.bing.com also works. So do images.bing.com and news.bing.com, so I guess they're following the Google schema for that. Bing video search is available for me in New Zealand, interesting that it doesn't work for you in Denmark.
marssaxman 10y ago
That never actually occurred to me; I just went for maps.bing.com after being frustrated one too many times by maps.google.com, and it worked.