Being at Bing

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...Doing a review on bing.com I thought it prudent in the beginning to have a comparative write-up of existing search engines but the practicality of my purpose is hardly feasible. Let?s just have check of the best available search engines. This is what you get with a google search: 1) Ask. 2) Yahoo. 3) Alta vista. 4) MSN. 5) Bing. 6) Cuil. 7) Lycos. 8) Hotbot. 9) Crawller. 10) Dogplie. 11) 20 search. 12) All the web. 13) AOL seach. 14) Ebay. 15) Exite. 16) Gigablast. 17) Iwon. 18) Google. 19) Joeant. 20) Mamma. 21) Netscape. 22) Open directory. 23) Webcraler. 24) Wikipedia Of course not in that order, you just can not make a comparative study, they all have their specialties. But let me restrict my self to google and bing. Google, because it?s generally considered as the best and unarguable the most widely used. THE HIGHS...

roktimdutta 25.11.2009 · Read review
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Have You Ever Binged Yourself?

Advantages: It's the same as most search engines with little extra bits
Disadvantages: Google has become this icon in people's lives and Bing never really gets there.

...As a self confessed, EX IT nerd, I have always been pushed to use different search engines within my work. At college we were pushed to use many different search engines, and now even after I have left college, I make a point of trying different search engines every now and then just to ?give them a go?. I?m afraid however that Bing.com was not released until after I had left college and it wasn?t until I started doing a lot of research at the beginning of August on my holiday that I really began to spend any time on Bing and really use it. Before I go into my opinion of Bing, I?m going to talk you through what Bing is and how it can help the regular user on the internet. What is Bing.com? Bing is a new search engine from Microsoft, following in the path of sites like Google; Bing is attempting to do a lot more than just...

DixieChick10 24.11.2009 (27.11.2009) · Read review
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Microsoft's slogan is "BING AND DECIDE". I did, why don't you ?

Advantages: An innovative and beautifully designed search engine that returns the results you really want.
Disadvantages: Can see confusing at first and it's very easy to get distracted by all the extras !!!

... ~~~ Introduction ~~~ I have had the same Microsoft Windows Live Hotmail account for years and without it I would be lost. It is linked with my Xbox 360 id, my MSN account and pretty much everywhere I appear online my presence is somehow linked with Microsoft ? I even use my Windows Live id to sign into a number of websites including Ciao !!! It was through my hotmail.co.uk email address that I first became aware of ?Bing? early this summer when I noticed a new feature pop up within my Windows Live account ? the feature was simply called "Quick Add" and was powered by something called Bing. I went off to explore and discovered that Bing was the shiny new updated version of Windows Live Search and that ?Quick Add? was a feature that linked my emails with Bing to enable me to insert Bing search results directly into my...

jedimastergray73 25.11.2009 · Read review
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Just Powered by Bing? ~ No, Enhanced by Bing!

Advantages: New search engine (Bing) is colourful and vivid with nice and fun to read info.
Disadvantages: Some features are still not working properly, Fewer reviews and a slower site.

... Stop the HATERS campaign and be supportive I made my mind up some months ago not to enter any kind of competitions because of certain reasons but I thought that this time I would make an exception, and write about the Ciao-Bing new design. Ciao introduced the ?Bing? into Ciaoland over six months ago; quite honestly, I hadn?t heard about Bing nor seen it before so it was completely new to me, as I?m a ?google? girl and haven?t been into ?bing?-ing as of yet! I won?t talk about the Bing search engine or its home page as I believe ciao is organising a separate Product of the Week review (PoW) about Bing.com! Anyway . . . I believe I have a different view and a slightly different opinion than many other members. I actually like the new Ciao design! Do I sound crazy? Out of the world? Maybe! However, I have my reasons...

karimkha 02.12.2009 · Read review
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Review of Ciao Bing design (since Nov 2009)

These foolish Bings... remind me of Ciao

Advantages: For Bing perhaps, corporate branding
Disadvantages: Everything else for everyone else

...on the system while the staff all looked on aghast but powerless? EXPLAINING THE INEXPLICABLE Now, though, it seems that the true explanation was none of the above. It seems - reading between the lines of yesterday's emailed "newsletter" - to have been because Ciao?s ultimate owners, Microsoft, want to ?align? the Ciao format with that of Bing. As I said at starting, this is something I understand can happen, even if it is not something which I would applaud. I myself have been a national manager in a multinational company where decisions were taken for supposedly strategic corporate reasons, or simply as a matter of corporate vanity, at the instigation of distant masters with little idea of the consequences at local level, consequences which were sometimes disastrous. NOT TOO LATE However, it?s not too late...

torr 21.11.2009 (26.11.2009) · Read review
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Don't Search for it, just Bing it!

Advantages: Faster that old Microsoft Live site
Disadvantages: Haven't found any yet.

...Windows Live has now been renamed Bing.com. The new homepage is totally different and a lot more interesting and exciting to look at than the old Windows Live Search was. Today's background is a computerised Arab desert town. When you click on various parts of the picture it gives you information about it. Clicking on the top of a minaret opened and information box about the muezzin and his five daily prayer session, plus a link to more information. It?s slick, interesting and easy to use and provides a good selection of results, but it?s more than a place to do a quick search. Windows Live is now Bing.com, a very useful search engine if you know how to use it. Search Bing Images at www.bing.com/images and you can refine your results by picture size, shape, aspect ratio, colour and style. So if, for example, you want a square...

jan007 01.08.2009 (07.08.2009) · Read review
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FREE DVDs

Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

dabmim 15.11.2004 · Read review
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bing.com - Is it worth switching from Google?

Advantages: User friendly interface & ability to preview video results
Disadvantages: Search Results load considerably slower than Google

...Bing.com - Is it worth switching from google? Microsoft has just announced Bing, as it desperately tries to find a way to take market share away from Google. Whether you love the new name or not?personally, I think it?s a huge improvement on Windows Live Search?you owe it to yourself to go and try Microsoft?s revamped search offering and by ?try? I don?t mean enter one search query and make up your mind, I mean give it a solid week or two. You might just find that Bing pleasantly surprises. Bing v Google One thing in my opinion "Bing" has over google is that when you click the ?Videos? tab and you?ll not only get video results, but you can mouse over each thumbnail and it plays right there and then! It is the same with images you mouse over the image and it enlarges the image slightly so can have a closer look at the final...

familymccoy 24.11.2009 · Read review
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Surprising Picture Quality - Panasonic DVD-S54

Advantages: Incredible picture quality when compared to my old non-upscaling player with a scart lead
Disadvantages: Sometimes disc drive can be really noisy when DVD's initially load.

...At first I wasn't convinced by up-scaling DVD player technology but was persuaded after reading an article in "What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision" magazine. Unable to afford a Blu-Ray player my sister and I bought the Panasonic DVD-S54 to match our parents brand new Panasonic TX-32LZD80 LCD television as their Christmas 2008 present. Admittedly it was a slightly selfish purchase as we both live at home and wanted to watch DVDs on the big new TV ourselves! We bought the player from the electrical retailer Comet for about £100 just before Christmas so there were no discounts applied. On Christmas day when opened we found a relatively small box tightly packed with the player in polystyrene packaging. All the components such as cables, remote and manuals were well presented in their own protective plastic bags, to keep them protected. The player...

bobbacon985 12.02.2009 · Read review
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Any Thing Special???

Advantages: Good Design, Quick, Features
Disadvantages: Nothing Special

...Bing.com - Any Thing Special??? Introduction *************** Bing.com is a professionally made search engine that trys to go along the same lines as other search engines. Some of the previous reviews about Bing say that it out offers other search engines in different aspects such as speed but does it? Let find out..... Features ************ Above the search box there are number of options that the user can choose from. Each option allowing the user to go to different types of searching criteria. Web - The web feature is already selected when you go to Bing.com. The web features is the standard search bar that so many other search engines offer already and that so many people are used to seeing. When entering a word or subject to search for I found that the search results were displayed very quickly. This could possibly be...

burns2007 05.07.2009 · Read review
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