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Isn't this just like saying "You're so pretty" to make fun of people who aren't all that smart?
by icey 17y ago
Isn't this just like saying "You're so pretty" to make fun of people who aren't all that smart?
- pygy 17y agoI read it as an implicit acknowledgment of the relevancy of their results. Bing (then Live), Yahoo and Google were equally relevant in 2008 when compared in blinded setting. http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/04/search-engine-relevance-an-empirical-test/ http://blog.doloreslabs.com/2008/04/search-engine-relevance-...
- mlinsey 17y agoIt struck me as a backhanded compliment as well. Especially given that part of the Bing marketing push has been focused on relevance so say what is essentially "we're glad that someone is working on improving search in ways that aren't related to relevance" is definitely a compliment and a tweak at the same time.
- ntoshev 17y agoIf you look at relevance and search UI as if they are orthogonal issues, you are missing all the ways an interactive UI could be used to help the user get relevant results. One non-web example is Google's own Stock Screener (it is about limiting the results to the ones we are interested in): http://www.google.com/finance/stockscreener http://www.google.com/finance/stockscreener