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Bing
But It's Not Google.
That's Bing, the Microsoft rebranded and reformated search engine.
Bing has a nice background picture and allows me to search in English or Portuguese, but when there's a tie, the Portuguese result shows up first.
For what I could tell, it's definitely not Google.
Google is currently more than a search engine.
On Google I can ask simple questions like "4 times 5" or "1 euro in usd" and I get "4 times 5 = 20" and "1 Euro = 1.4225 U.S. dollars", this one depending on near real time
In Bing I only get regular search engine results.
Bing answer for 4 times 5.
When trying to search information in news group "linux.debian.laptop", I can do it in Google and since Bing knows it, Bing shows the Google Groups for "linux.debian.laptop".
As Seth Godin puts it, looks like Microsoft is trying to be the next Google, but currently here's already a next Google: Google.
Why should people change for something that works well to something that seems not to have a real distinguishing factor? At least for now, it's still, as alomost in Google, a Beta version. Even if Microsoft adds a few cool features, how much time it Google take to clone it and improve it?
I don't really know why Microsoft is investing so much time, money and effort in such a battle when they could be doing something remarkable.
Update
I've just discovered that actually Bing does some math and it knows how to answer 4 times 5.
What I also discovered is that, like many Microsoft applications, it thinks it knows what is best for me and, as always, it thinks wrong!
I've specifically have told Bing that I wanted results in English, but it ignored me and gave me results in Portuguese and looks like in Portuguese it was unable to compute 4 times 5.
Looks like Bing thinks that since I'm located in Portugal, I cannot ask questions in English! Is this stupid or what?
If it thinks it's smart enough to know what's best for me, I've asked the same question in Portuguese, "4 vezes 5" and, as I expected, it failed to answer the question.
Not very smart, Bing...
Bing is not Google, and they can say that again!
Keep up like that and definitely it will continue to live obfuscated by Google, like the "eternal wanna be"...
./M6
That's Bing, the Microsoft rebranded and reformated search engine.
Bing has a nice background picture and allows me to search in English or Portuguese, but when there's a tie, the Portuguese result shows up first.
For what I could tell, it's definitely not Google.
Google is currently more than a search engine.
On Google I can ask simple questions like "4 times 5" or "1 euro in usd" and I get "4 times 5 = 20" and "1 Euro = 1.4225 U.S. dollars", this one depending on near real time
In Bing I only get regular search engine results.
Bing answer for 4 times 5.When trying to search information in news group "linux.debian.laptop", I can do it in Google and since Bing knows it, Bing shows the Google Groups for "linux.debian.laptop".
As Seth Godin puts it, looks like Microsoft is trying to be the next Google, but currently here's already a next Google: Google.
Why should people change for something that works well to something that seems not to have a real distinguishing factor? At least for now, it's still, as alomost in Google, a Beta version. Even if Microsoft adds a few cool features, how much time it Google take to clone it and improve it?
I don't really know why Microsoft is investing so much time, money and effort in such a battle when they could be doing something remarkable.
Update
I've just discovered that actually Bing does some math and it knows how to answer 4 times 5.
What I also discovered is that, like many Microsoft applications, it thinks it knows what is best for me and, as always, it thinks wrong!
I've specifically have told Bing that I wanted results in English, but it ignored me and gave me results in Portuguese and looks like in Portuguese it was unable to compute 4 times 5.
Looks like Bing thinks that since I'm located in Portugal, I cannot ask questions in English! Is this stupid or what?
If it thinks it's smart enough to know what's best for me, I've asked the same question in Portuguese, "4 vezes 5" and, as I expected, it failed to answer the question.
Not very smart, Bing...
Bing is not Google, and they can say that again!
Keep up like that and definitely it will continue to live obfuscated by Google, like the "eternal wanna be"...
./M6
Google Chrome, almost there for me
I'm a long time Firefox user - previous SeaMonkey user, previous Mozilla user, previous Netscape Communicator user - so it's been a pleasure to have (again) a fast and light browser on my system: Google Chrome.
I've been testing Google Chrome 1.0 for some time now and, as a long time Firefox user, the comparative was inevitable.
Chrome is light, fast, generally has a good GUI and a set of interesting and useful features.
I'm currently also using Firefox 3.1 Beta 2, which implements some of the nicest Chrome features, like changing tabs into new browsers and vice-versa (currently works much better on Chrome) and cleaning navigation on a specific date interval.
But unfortunately Firefox has become worst each version, to state some of the worst problems:
- The "bookmark this page" dialog is so small it almost become unusable.
- It has two distinct find GUIs, the "find as you type" is different from the "find"
menu option. It even has different options available.
- It's getting hard to find the options in the options dialog.
- It is still impossible to save a proxy username and password for future usage.
To cut a long story short, here's what stopping me to make a definite move to Chrome:
- No Foxmarks plug-in available.
- "Find as you type" unavailable. The find it self is a bit buggy.
- Change between languages on a text box while editing text.
Here's a set of features that I miss on Chrome, but that would not stop me to make the change:
- "Reopen closed tab" unavailable. It forces the user to go to the history.
- Firebug plug-in. The current developer menu options are not enough.
- Ad Block plug-in.
- Down Them All plug-in.
- FoxyProxy plug-in. Using the system settings is not enough when one uses a laptop on several networks.
- Private Browsing.
Mozilla is making an effort to make Firefox 3.1 much better, I believe they are feel the pressure from Chrome, and its release notes show they are on the right track.
By the way, it would be very nice to use it in Linux and it would be a blast if it supported Mozilla plug-ins...
./M6
I've been testing Google Chrome 1.0 for some time now and, as a long time Firefox user, the comparative was inevitable.
Chrome is light, fast, generally has a good GUI and a set of interesting and useful features.
I'm currently also using Firefox 3.1 Beta 2, which implements some of the nicest Chrome features, like changing tabs into new browsers and vice-versa (currently works much better on Chrome) and cleaning navigation on a specific date interval.
But unfortunately Firefox has become worst each version, to state some of the worst problems:
- The "bookmark this page" dialog is so small it almost become unusable.
- It has two distinct find GUIs, the "find as you type" is different from the "find"
menu option. It even has different options available.
- It's getting hard to find the options in the options dialog.
- It is still impossible to save a proxy username and password for future usage.
To cut a long story short, here's what stopping me to make a definite move to Chrome:
- No Foxmarks plug-in available.
- "Find as you type" unavailable. The find it self is a bit buggy.
- Change between languages on a text box while editing text.
Here's a set of features that I miss on Chrome, but that would not stop me to make the change:
- "Reopen closed tab" unavailable. It forces the user to go to the history.
- Firebug plug-in. The current developer menu options are not enough.
- Ad Block plug-in.
- Down Them All plug-in.
- FoxyProxy plug-in. Using the system settings is not enough when one uses a laptop on several networks.
- Private Browsing.
Mozilla is making an effort to make Firefox 3.1 much better, I believe they are feel the pressure from Chrome, and its release notes show they are on the right track.
By the way, it would be very nice to use it in Linux and it would be a blast if it supported Mozilla plug-ins...
./M6
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