Microsoft to consolidate MSN and Bing
The early reviews of Microsoft’s new Bing search engine — oh, sorry, they want me to call it a decision engine — agree that Bing is (a) pretty, and (b) a perfectly good decision engine.
Now, Microsoft plans to retrofit its MSN site to integrate better with Bing. CNET’s Ina Fried interviewed Erik Jorgensen, the MSN exec in charge of tying the two sites together. He said: “Microsoft needs to ensure that it is less visually jarring… Continue Reading
Bing lists my job from 2001
I want to like Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine. It’s pretty! The video results that play when you mouse over them are cool. And Microsoft people are smarter and nicer than anyone in Silicon Valley wants to admit, so I like for them to win once in a while. Too bad Bing, now live after several days of post-launch downtime, returned my first search with a tidy line of info on me that’s eight years… Continue Reading
Bing demo video
Microsoft says Bing, the company’s new search engine, will launch on Wednesday, June 3, after a few delays this week. Even if I get Bing to load, I’m too old to spend the weekend typing up a review. But I had Microsoft send us this video clip to study til the youngsters post.
Bing downtime means nothing yet
Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine — whoops, they’re now called discovery engines — has served some sweet-looking pages to a few lucky people since Steve Ballmer’s henchmen threw the big switch yesterday. But most of us have only seen blank pages or the “Coming Soon” page above.
Our readers took a few screenshots. Search Engine Land was able to do head-to-head tests of Bing versus Google. Mike Arrington reported from the Google I/O nerdapalooza in San Francisco that Bing already… Continue Reading