Bing UK (bing.co.uk)

Bing UK (bing.co.uk) This is the United Kingdom version of the latest 'Search Engine' launched in 2009 by Microsoft. It is designed, like all 'search engines' are, to gather information previously uploaded to the World Wide Web, classify it, and present it to the enquirer in a matter of seconds in the form of 'clickable' links, or 'results' for their SEARCH. . Search? Me? I never used to ever use search engines. I had no need for information found online. Of course I was brought up in the pre-computer, pre-internet age. My dad had several editions of the World Book Encyclopedia, Encyclopaedia ... more

So, Ciao want to know what we think about Microsofts shiny new Bing search engine , which can be accessed at www.bing.co.uk. Upon first coming to the page, I thought I'd typed in the address incorrectly - I'm greeted by a large picture of some tombs carved into a rock, surrounded by a dull grey border, with a search bar smack bang in the middle of the page, which has various functions listed for searching - search the web, images, videos, shopping, news, maps and more. It certainly appears on first glance to have some good functions there, but that doesn't detract from the fact that it looks ... more

I have tried this search engine, and I did not find it any better than my normal one. The main complaints are that it is clumsy, and there seems to be no way to filter out the American content. I like to search through images for speed, but my results were swamped with the pics from the USA. On the plus side I liked the continuous scrolling of the image results and the images were clear. I tried the visual search and this does not seem to work - a simple sort - "Welsh AM's" just gives results form the web with no pictures, and in this list the Conservative web page as the top! This product ... more

Being a long term user of search engines, I can only say that Bing has to be seen as yet another Microsoft flop! It's without a doubt a poor attempt to challenge Google's dominance of the search engine market. The look and feel are clearly based on Google but I really can't honestly say that there's anything there to warrant changing from Google. A pretty picture on the first page is no substitute for innovation - yet innovation seems to be the one area that hasn't even been given an iota of attention. There's simply nothing to attract anybody away from Google. The list of useful features is ... more