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Fuzzy Logic Bing’s like zing for some, Meh-ng for others
Fuzzy Logic Bing’s like zing for some, Meh-ng for others | Bing’s like zing for some, Meh-ng for others |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Tuesday, 02 June 2009 | |
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Page 2 of 3 One feature that doesn’t yet appear to be activated is the “hotspots” on the photo featured on the front page of Bing. Featured Whitepaper
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No doubt the extra “zing” of the hotspots being activated will come later – as will some of the movie times, public transport details, airport plane departure and arrival details right at the top of a search, travel and accommodation pricing prediction, general price comparison and cashback, and more in countries other than the US. Most of the features I’ve just listed are available to US users using the US version of Bing.com, and that information simply hasn’t been fully and completely collected for most other countries yet. As NineMSN, the custodians of Bing (alongside Microsoft) in Australia, noted that similar features would come within 6 to 12 to 18 months to Australian users as the data is collected and the deals presumably all worked out, something that would likely be a similar timeframe for other major countries. Bing also does very well with image and video search. With images, the results a continuous scrolling list, as opposed to a set amount of results per page, but you can refine the results to get specific image quality, size and other metrics. Video results are still broken up into separate pages, but you can do nifty things like specificy video length, size, whether it has people in it, among a range of other cool breakdowns of the search results. Video search results also automatically play a preview when you run your mouse cursor onto one, adding a bit of eye candy-ish wow factor to the fun of a new search results experience. But is all of this enough to dethrone the great Google? Please… read on to page 3! |
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