Dear Microsoft Bing, Don’t Discriminate
Microsoft rolled out its brand new search engine, named ‘Bing’ now not getting into my thoughts on the name, I liked the video preview that was shown at the ‘All Things D’ conference. Like everyone else, I too was excited on seeing the video & waited for the public release. It happened today. And I’m not happy. I’m disappointed. A bit. For starters, a bit of ego searching for my name didn’t show my awesome blog on the first page, unlike that other search engine. If that wasn’t sad enough, Bing’s homepage for India is different … make that very different from that of US. Needless to say, the US page is the new Bing & shows better results.
The first impression as the saying goes is the last impression, won’t say ‘last’ but still makes an impression. I, like lot of other users was taken to the Indian page of Bing which IS the Live search page with the name Bing. The worst part is that the search result pages differ as well! Screen shots:
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See the sidebar in the window on the left, that’s the US result page with options like:
- Drivers
- Manual
- Specs
- Battery
… that actually make Bing the Decision engine. But on the right, what’d ya see?
Interesting… didnt notice it… even i tried my hands on it just now… but overall m finding it decent enuf… im more taken by the name “bing” … very catchy ! :-)
I knew this Bing thing was giving me negative vibes. It really shows weird results. Is it because its still Beta? I dont care but hope Bing does not face the same faced by so called Live Search
I actually like bing, its refreshingly better than google.
The KISS principle, yet web 2.0ish . Search for the right terms and you will see a similar decision engine feel even for Indian audience.
well, i too noticed that thing and it is due o most probably because, the Specs are different of India and US, the main thing is that it is providing nice and required results as compared to live search….but the thing that is so called decision engine..is still far from us…