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As I mentioned on an earlier thread, if you just want bing to look a little more like Google, I posted a Greasemonkey script here: http://userscripts.org/scrip
by thorax 17y ago
As I mentioned on an earlier thread, if you just want bing to look a little more like Google, I posted a Greasemonkey script here:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50649 http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/50649
Interestingly, I can really, really tell that Google has iterated pixel-by-pixel on their interface to get the optimum look because there's an "uncanny valley" I sense when I see results UI that is close but-not-quite-like theirs.
It's really hard to get the search results to look exactly like Google (the script doesn't quite do it) and when it's not quite right it feels as if it is a fake/squatter/parked page rather than the nice clean Google search results. This script attempts to get partially there, but Bing, by default, reminds me a lot of the sort of "parked" search results you see out there.
I haven't quite put my finger on exactly what triggers that feeling, but it seems to be a mixture of line-height, coloring, font size, and the length of the excerpt.
- kalid 17y agoGreat analysis. I can't put my finger on it either, but there is something about the colors and spacing that makes me implicitly look away / be unable to read the bing results. I've been conditioned to ignore any text that has a certain format.