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I have Bing enabled on the family computer by default on Windows for the Family Safety features. I tried searching for "rainbow friends official" yesterday to u

I have Bing enabled on the family computer by default on Windows for the Family Safety features. I tried searching for "rainbow friends official" yesterday to understand what it is (yes I'm that out of touch). I got tons of what looked like knock offs and spam, with big bright video previews and no official looking site. I switched to Google and found the official site immediately and realised it's a Roblox game, so the Bing results weren't wrong at all but they sure looked wrong. There's just something about Bing that looks bad, I don't know what it is.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
>I got tons of what looked like knock offs and spam, with big bright video previews and no official looking site. Same for me on most searches. Bing is far too cluttered and busy, all over the place, making your eyes constantly hunt to find what you're looking for. Microsoft, if you're reading this, simpler is almost always better, no need to make the results page look like an Arch user's terminal session.
- Reimersholme 3y ago
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- lacrimacida 3y ago
  This is what Microsoft will always lack: taste and style. Every once in a while they accidentally (-or not) come up with something that is decent but it doesn’t last, next version is atrocious in some way or another. - Im sure there’s talented professional behind anything that is good and the accident is their decisions surviving the corporate gauntlet of enshitification or expnanding the scope of the project such that it becomes an unpleasant mess, probably obnoxious too.
  - FirmwareBurner 3y ago
    >This is what Microsoft will always lack: taste and style. They alwawys lacked an authoritarian UX and design chief, like their own Steve Jobs and Johnny Ive who, for better or worse, would be the only one with the final verdict on what the corporate design of all products should look like and what is allowed to ship. Microsoft is too fragmented, everyone of its products is basically a totally separate company with its own design language.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago

>I got tons of what looked like knock offs and spam, with big bright video previews and no official looking site. Same for me on most searches. Bing is far too cluttered and busy, all over the place, making your eyes constantly hunt to find what you're looking for. Microsoft, if you're reading this, simpler is almost always better, no need to make the results page look like an Arch user's terminal session.

Reimersholme 3y ago
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lacrimacida 3y ago
This is what Microsoft will always lack: taste and style. Every once in a while they accidentally (-or not) come up with something that is decent but it doesn’t last, next version is atrocious in some way or another. - Im sure there’s talented professional behind anything that is good and the accident is their decisions surviving the corporate gauntlet of enshitification or expnanding the scope of the project such that it becomes an unpleasant mess, probably obnoxious too.
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago
  >This is what Microsoft will always lack: taste and style. They alwawys lacked an authoritarian UX and design chief, like their own Steve Jobs and Johnny Ive who, for better or worse, would be the only one with the final verdict on what the corporate design of all products should look like and what is allowed to ship. Microsoft is too fragmented, everyone of its products is basically a totally separate company with its own design language.