Its official: Bing is Microsoft's new search engine

[thewiseguy]

SEATTLE -Microsoft Corp. is rolling out a redesigned search site in the coming days and hopes it will lure more Web surfers than the two most recent incarnations, Live Search and MSN Search.

The new site, Bing, adds touches intended to make everyday Web searching a little less haphazard. Bing also tries to make it easier for people to buy things, book travel and find credible health information.

History has not been kind to even the best search innovators. Many companies, including Amazon.com Inc. and IAC/InterActiveCorp., and startups like Hakia, ChaCha and Cuil have tried to improve on the basic "10 blue links" format of search results, but Google has so far been unstoppable.

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090528/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_microsoft_search_1

[CurtEastPoint]

1. CHANDLER Bing? n'/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. Bing the child abuser

crosby.

[Xithras]

3. The problem with Live search is that the results sucked.

I tried to use it many times, but always ended up going back to Google. Their filtering routines were awful.

[NeedleCast]

4. I'm pretty happy with Google

I was shocked recently when I was going over some web analytics for the non-profit I work for. Of the search enginges used to located our web site, Google had something like 62% of the references. No other search tool or web portal had more than 15% or the share.

[LakeSamish706]

5. Something tells me they are going to have a hard time prying Google from number 1. n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. it will happen, at some point, just like IBM's massive

lead and absolute control over the PC world might evapo . . . . wait. Where is IBM these days? How's their laptop business doing?

seriously, MS's huge lead on software and operating systems is beginning to shake, rattle and groan. GM's huge lead in domestic cars sales is over. Wonder bread, once a staple of bad food everywhere in the states, is wondering how to survive. Google will be dethroned, probably when a far more artificially intelligent system is designed, created, offered to Google, who will tell them to go pound sand, after which, they go public and destroy Google in the process.

[Stevenmarc]

7. The betting windows are open, How long till Bing becomes a footnote in Microsoft history

[kirby]

10. I still use Microsoft Bob! n/t

[YOY]

8. Buh buh buh booooooooo!

http://api.ning.com/files/UZ8UQ2FXhhM2IOmg3RMXzd7GVxu0wFhXnQehmHwuswEHOlKVu7JuD*HWATiJkhoqMSwv3z9aCO8yGSkf8m**NLYIwxe9uotL/bingicon.jpg

Just seeing that pic makes me want to get drunk and start slapping the kids.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

9. BADA Bing? n/t

[dbonds]

11. Da da bing, da da bang, da da boom.

I looks a lot like google with a different style applied to it. To be useful will depend on how well it indexes the web, how fast it is, and if they give all API's google does. I don't like MS because of their business practices, if they extend their philosophies to this then it will fail also. Who wants a search engine that ignores things because MS doesn't like them - I search for linux (no hits).

[Occulus]

14. linux hits show up at search.msn.com

:shrug:

[dbonds]

16. That was a hypothetical based on previous business practices.

Not actual behavior.

[Cronus Protagonist]

12. It looks a bit like CLUSTY

http://www.clusty.com

[Canuckistanian]

13. I've always longed for a way to buy stuff easier on the Web

You know, I can't can't count the number of times I've asked, "Yes, that's some nice stuff, but where can I go to buy it?"

Thanks, Microsoft.

[WI_DEM]

15. Crosby?