• Google Beats Bing; Rules the Ring

    Google Beats Bing; Rules the Ring

    Rahul Srinivas, Jun 02, 2009 1343 hrs IST

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Video, Images and Others

Bing also comes with the expected Video, Image, Maps and News search. You can "personalize" your image search by choosing categories like size, color and even people. In addition, if you click on any of the images, it opens up the image -- but at the same time, it shows rest of the images in a pane at the left. This lets you avoid hitting the back button for looking more images. The infinite search functionality does away with multiple pages and search results are added as you scroll down. This might be good for faster connections and PCs. As for videos, it has also been in the news for its ability to play explicit (amongst other) videos right from within the search results page. This has drawn sharp criticism from certain quarters. Well, coming to think of it, even though Google doesn't allow you to play videos right from within the results page, it is capable of displaying explicit content by just changing the preferences. This also holds true in case of images. Bing comes with a similar option and it leaves me perplexed why only Bing is being singled out. You can search videos by length, screen size, resolution and source. Pretty neat!





If you are in India and are checking out Bing, it is interesting to note that you simply cannot search for things using keywords that Bing thinks might return sexually explicit content. Therefore, if you search for something as simple as "sex", you will get no results. Period. If that was not all, there is no option to change your preferences so that you may complete the search using the aforementioned keyword.




If you are really looking for something, the only option now is to switch to one of the other localized pages (preferably U.S.) and you will get what you want there (ahem!). I am unsure if this is a bug or whether Bing India considers these words taboo!

Verdict

Bing sure is a good, robust search engine. Some of the features it has come up with are downright revolutionary when you compare it to Google and number two, Yahoo. Credit is due for Microsoft for providing users a capable, well thought-out search engine. You might take some time getting used to the "new set of search results" though. They have also managed to create a buzz around it and all that needs to seen is whether people will start using the service regularly. Technology enthusiasts and certain sections of this niche community might like the service and may even use the service, but replacing Google with Bing is a huge decision even for them. To replace what has become synonymous with search might be difficult and we do not see Google losing any market share in the near future. What Microsoft is looking at is the adoption of Bing by the layman, your average Internet user who still swears by Google and in some cases, is simply unaware of the fact that there is another option out there! Microsoft has had a good start with the Bing by creating the buzz around what is actually a nice search engine. However, it has a long, weary road to traverse before it could be a Google replacement. Microsoft however does seem to have Yahoo in its sight first!

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(24) Comments
tushar kanti
,mumbai, on Jun 16, 2009 12:56 AM
well snippets is the next happening thing i suppose..the article is totaly in-coherent with the title.. though i did manage to spend some time on bing. not a bad alternative in 1st view. lets c how much can it attract people. when google has almost become synonymous to search.
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vegeta
,city17, on Jun 15, 2009 02:23 PM
Lol in this so called review throughout i felt like Bing was winning battles against google and the title is totally different :S There were no proper search battle done :| this review was really of substandard quality. Anyways i am starting to love Bing i dunno why :P
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Anonymous
,M, on Jun 02, 2009 04:35 PM
Why is the post titled "Google Beats Bing; Rules the Ring"??? It is totally misleading. There is nothing in the post which says "Google Beats Bing"...it doesnt say anything which says google is better or anything! Seems like author wanted to get more eye-balls :)
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Sabyasachi Jana
,Mumbai, on Jun 12, 2009 07:44 PM
agreed!
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Paul Ngoie
,London, on Jun 02, 2009 02:48 PM
Bing is just another hyped up SE, as a user the most important function is how relevant the results a search engine return. Relevancy is the key and that's how Google has managed to win the landscape. As far as displaying results I dont think that's that important. Bing is Live with a different skin and a bit of tweaks on how the results are displayed but I dont think they're coming closer to Google. I'm not a Google fun I'm just speaking based on observation and my experiment and experience with Search engines.
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Aaron P
,Philadelphia, PA, on Jun 02, 2009 05:58 PM
I totally agree with you. And it amuses me at how similar to Google Microsquish opted to go in displaying their results. It looks almost the same, even to how they display sponsored sites. It's not bad from what I'm seeing, and I like the picture and video results, but... eh, for general web searching? I'm sticking with google.
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Santhosh
,HYDERABAD, on Jun 12, 2009 03:47 PM
I agree that the most important function is to get the most relevant information. And bing is not bad in this regard. Just search for "google" or "yahoo" in bing. Bing knows what we want and returns only that. There is no point in returning a billion results for one search query.
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Anonymous
,0, on Jun 05, 2009 02:18 PM
The title is very misleading and almost the opposite of what the review is. Please modify it
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Sameer
,Bhilai, on Jun 03, 2009 10:09 AM
Well. BIng feels fresh initially. Remains to be seen if it matches the intelligence of Google.
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Pankaj Nikam
,New Delhi, on Jun 03, 2009 07:53 AM
I just love bing... its speed rocks... UI is great and not confusing...
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Google Boss
,google, on Jun 03, 2009 01:01 AM
Google is the best!
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punt
,CA, on Jun 02, 2009 10:23 PM
As MIcrosoft clearly points out in its ad campaign. Bing is just the beginning of a new era of web search. Competition in any segment is always good for the end users. The least that Bing can predicatably deliver at the moment is to drive Yahoo and Google to quickly wear the thinking cap and be more innovative in their search areas.
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novicefreak
,Hyderabad, on Jun 02, 2009 10:21 PM
Google is very relevant in "suggestion" and is the master when presenting the results when compared to Bing. Just tried keying basic words, one by one and compared the Master and Novice!: " calculate between two dates......." Google is and will be my choice! I will certainly stick to Google. Gooooooooooo Google! As its said Bing Its not Google and it can never be!
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prthwy
,Bangalore, on Jun 02, 2009 08:05 PM
Bing has a fresh look - The simple clean interface of Google has not out dated either -Thumbs up to MS. Google still retains its position as my homepage
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Kapil Poddar
,Mumbai, on Jun 02, 2009 07:26 PM
Google is king in search engine market.
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Nikhil
,delhi, on Jun 02, 2009 06:56 PM
All the features are not yet deployed yet in intl market yet. They are rolling in next few months. Mean while change your country in USA and have fun with bing
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chez
,India, on Jun 02, 2009 06:49 PM
Search o keyword "curry smell in the office" returns different results.
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Matt
,London, UK, on Jun 02, 2009 05:43 PM
Yeah.. I dont think Google needs to worry about Bing being much of a competition. Just tested it out, and its no where near as good as Google.
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What?
,Where?, on Jun 02, 2009 05:39 PM
NO PORN?!?!?!?!
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Ajay Biswal
,blore, on Jun 02, 2009 02:31 PM
i was just trying bing.but the no of results it returns is not so precise as Google does also the no of results is less as compared to Google
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BABU
,BANGALORE, on Jun 02, 2009 03:28 PM
I tried Bing and it did not give the correct results. Bing appearance is OK but technically it needs to improve.
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Ashfaq
,Karachi, on Jun 02, 2009 03:11 PM
BING is as they say, "But Its Not Google" :)
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Theo
,Brisbane, on Jun 02, 2009 03:01 PM
Have used Google for Years. Have tried Bing and loving it, especially videos, this could be a goer.
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Mr G
,Chennai, on Jun 02, 2009 02:32 PM
I agree with ur comments. BING surely has a very long way to go. Though it is ultimately difficult to replace google as my homepage, it has caught my attention a bit. I might try out bing when google doesn't respond to some searches. The image search in BING is better than Google or as good as it. It has a fresh look and come on guys...lets give MS a chance. It has been trying out for a long time to counter google.
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