Microsoft is planning to relaunch it’s failed Live search as Bing in June 2009 and first impressions from the promotional video are it looks pretty good.
Naturally and without fail the Linux and Apple community is already saying that Bing will suck. But of course those kind of comments are said about every single Microsoft product by these people who smell of red bull, body odour and cheeto’s.
Unlike features available in Google 9at the time of writing), Microsoft seems to have implemented a stack load of actual useful features into Bing. Ability to view reviews without leaving the search engine. Ability to display results based on type “reviews”, “local”, “shopping” and a few others are welcomed auditions.
It’s easy for people to proclaim it won’t be any more successful than live.com, but I think that’s the mentality. The natural feeling is to hate everything Microsoft creates before it’s even released and without even properly giving it a go.
Most people that use Google only use it because it’s the trendy thing to do. The term “Google It” which is widely used in modern culture shows just how powerful Google is. While it won’t be an easy task for a new search engine to take away Google market share, Google still have the advantage of all that information.
I don’t have much of a hope for up-to-date results like Google or Yahoo! but if it’s got a new engine and Microsoft are finally indexing more sites more frequently they might have a chance.
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