For those that haven’t heard, Microsoft anounced it’s new search engine, bing.
Some of those links might be a little slow at the moment, but I’d give it some time. Working at ninemsn, I had the opportunity to get a sneak peak at the search engine and I must say I was impressed. For those eager clickers, be advised the home page link is still showing a ‘coming soon’ for us Aussies atm.
The first thought that sprang to my mind when I heard the new name was, “I wonder if searching a term will now be called getting bing-age“. Gamers in the aurdience will recall the term getting bink-age from the counter-strike days, which describes the sound made when you score (or receive) a head shot while wearing a helmet in counter-strike (a near fatal shot).
Let’s hope that bing-age earns it’s place in the search world (in terms of search accuracy/relevance) the same way bink-age applies in the gaming world.
Hey JBA,
What’s the aim of bing.com? I’ve used a few times and I must say, I’m still sitting on the fence with this one.
Nevertheless, I like your blog – I don’t see many computer engineering related blogs written in such finesse.
5ft0
So the term being branded around at the office when talking about Bing was “Decision Engine”. Indeed the majority of the innovation around Bing seems to be around use-ability when taking the context under which most searches are undertaken.
I especially like the way many types of searches end up being hard-wired directly to the end action as well. You can search for a flight number, and get the flight’s details up-to-the-minute. In the State’s it even has full integration of the original fair-caster technology to find out when the best time to buy a flight ticket is.
And thanks firstly for saying ‘Hi’, and for the compliment, it’s much appreciated.
Bing does give search results much like Google but i would have to say that Google still gives more relevant search results