Microsoft has unveiled its new search engine BING , 2 days before the scheduled date.
A quick overview of the Bing gives a feel that at last Microsoft has come up with a search engine which can be a competitor to the near monopolist Google search.
The loading time of both the sites is nearly a blink.
The search results for the queries ( like shopping malls in Noida or natural language processing) , essentially are the same. MS no longer refrains from using Wikipedia as its top source of search query results , which I found was not there in the Live Search.
Bing let me down with multiple results hyper linking essentially to the same website( in the case of NLP to Wikipedia ) which does not make a lot of sense as , if I can go to a website which is textual enough for me to read , I would be intelligent enough to go to the links myself.
Where Bing scores is the added functionality given other than the basic returning of web pages , which makes it an intelligent search engine ( though not as per the capabilities of the industry like the one shown in WolframAlpha.)
The summary of the web page which can be accessed through the red dot at the side is a very novel idea , though the summary of certain web pages were disappointing. A better summarizer would make it a great feature for future search business.
Another great part of the engine is the customized search results presented. For example , shopping malls in Noida return a few places ( though personally I feel they can be among the worst search results that can be returned.)
I find the yahoo search engine to score in search query results in this domain over Bing or Google.
A feature which appeals though in Bing is the incorporation of the Live Map showing the landmarks of these places.
The related search queries at the left hand side of the window though gives better results.
The videos results have the same feature as the Ubuntu where hovering the mouse over a video plays it.
The search result for Noida in videos returns as the top result an MMS scandal of some B school , which reflects the quality of the search results returned.
Maps returns the Live map which is non-elaborative in comparison to Google maps.
People have been worried over Bing being a search engine which is able to decide for itself as to what kind of search results should be returned in comparison to Google giving all the search results possible. When seeing the current power of this engine to take decisions , it seems a non-decision approach would be a better idea for places such as India where data related to a particular city is not ample to take the decisions.But the potential is immense in having a search engine which is capable of taking intelligent search engines , like the Wolfram Alpha search engine.
Microsoft should , as opposed to limited spending proposed by Steve Balmer , invest more into Bing , to increase its market share from 2-3% presently , to something respectable to become a true competitor of Google in the search business.
1 comment:
Hmm, the stage in wich it is now; it will take a lot more time before it gains significant userbase
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