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Too noisy. With all the extraneous stuff on the page, I keep misreading the name as Bling. Fast though. At least they understand that much about why Google w
by pg 17y ago
Too noisy. With all the extraneous stuff on the page, I keep misreading the name as Bling.
Fast though. At least they understand that much about why Google won.
It's funny to think that after all the engineering expertise that must have gone into this, they're going to lose because of UI design.
- garply 17y agoHm. The nebula and color gradients feel unnecessary to me, but I think there's potential for innovation in having the recommended searches prominently located on the left sidebar - provided that the recommendations are intelligent enough. I've thought on more than one occasion while burrowing down with repeated queries that search should involve more of the machine prompting me and less of me guessing at the right keywords. Bing's UI promotes that behavior, whereas my eyes just skip over the recommended queries at the bottom of Google.
- amichail 17y agoI think they will lose because their rankings are still worse than Google for queries that are not so popular.
- prakash 17y agoFast though. At least they understand that much about why Google won. MS is using Akamai as the CDN to deliver search results, hence it is fast.
- prakash 17y agoWhich part of the UI design didn't you like? The background image?
- lucumo 17y agoI personally like the way they integrated the "advanced" search box in the results page. It actually makes it easy to do an advanced search. Neither Yahoo nor Google has this. Combined with the impressive speed, I think it stands a chance.
- jsonscripter 17y agoBing makes the advanced search "clickable" but always in your face. Google gives you the advanced search options pane, and then shows you how to format your search query so you can create the advanced search on-the-fly next time (such as by adding -, +, quotes and the like), as they see the command-line interface to their search as superior.
- nostrademons 17y agohttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-search-options-and-other-updates.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/more-search-options-a... Heh, I love how Microsoft is running a Google ad on "search options" that points to Bing.