At a moment of weakness I promised to use Bing for a month. That was a promise that even brought the connection to my blog server down: Funny Story: The day Scott Hanselman dosed my blog
I would just like to say that I’ve remained true to my word and a month has almost passed. For comparison I’ve searched some times both on Bing and “the almighty”. The main issue with Bing is that the search results are smaller and less accurate than the big guys. Small wonder but still! The real question becomes if we want one almighty oracle on the search domain? Is it one company’s view of the Internet Universe that we want for the future? Couldn’t there be a way to start cooperations on the search domain? We have it on all other aspects of the Internet.
Anyway I just wanted to post a small note mentioning that I found a really cool feature on Bing. When you hover a search result you get a pop-up to the right with a bit more text and a list of links found on the site you’re viewing. This is very useful information. I love the idea! Wanna bet how many weeks it will take for the almighty to add that feature? I heard they have a whole team working around the clock ripping Bing apart to take the best bits and copy them. But maybe that was just a rumor?
Cheers,
M.
posted @ Wednesday, June 24, 2009 9:45 AM