Comments on: Will you switch to Microsoft’s Bing for search?

By: bhatnaturally

bhatnaturally — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:58:13 +0000

zyrax, Karma, thanks for the comments. Agree about Live – the package has taken so many avatars from search to blog (Spaces) to Live Writer to Photo Gallery, it is quite a mess.

By: Karma

Karma — Thu, 28 May 2009 08:41:20 +0000

I will not use Microsoft search engine ‘coz they are still stuck with the DESKTOP mentality.
They have lost the Search Game and they act like they don’t even know it.
Apart from Desktop OS their WEB properties have gone the law of diminishing return path. Live/Hotmail etc…
I’d stick with someone know who knows what they are doing.

By: zyrax

zyrax — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:29:42 +0000

No ,I will not use it.Microsoft do not know how to make a search engine and will never understand.Even with live.com (where i type “live.com”),it look almost a minute for the search features to appear.i want a fast search.why would i want to waste another 3 characters for www when live.com is the same thing with http://www.live.com??

result from the same website was not group up,user like me (again,want it fast) have to read the url in order to realize that 2 out of 10 result shown points to the same website.

By: bhatnaturally

bhatnaturally — Mon, 25 May 2009 04:44:11 +0000

Charles, thanks for the kind words!:)

By: Charles

Charles — Mon, 25 May 2009 04:27:29 +0000

I’ll always try something new out. Yahoo have this voice activated search on my N95 which spooks people when I start talking into a phone randomly. It’s not good enough yet but I like the effort and wouldn’t mind trying the Android version.

However there’s a bit of Stockholm syndrome with me and Google. I’ve hardly given them a penny over the years since the new IT guy at my London agency sent an email suggesting we give them a try over the flavor du jour: Mamma – The mother of all search engines. Talk about a gateway drug. They know me better than anyone. Not a shred of doubt over that and I love it

In any case, and I’ve learned this from MSFT. While I think they can change the world again if they put their mind to it. The profit culture means they often miss some of the most inspiring elements of 21st century web. It feels like the quarterly report stymies their potential.

I believe they could detonate the current business model in an exciting way but I’m struck over the internal narrative. The vocal champions are on the outside.

In any case I only really stopped by because this blog struck me last night as rather good. (read very good).

It’s prolific, passionate and polished looking. This thought emerged while sucking RSS on my mobile, and I thought I’d drop by to tell ya because both we and India are lucky. Good work.