maximillianos
msg:3940665 | 3:58 am on Jun 26, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Microsoft... copying something? I can't think of any cases where that would be true... ;-)
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conor
msg:3940727 | 7:48 am on Jun 26, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Who would have thought it ... Microsoft ripping off some elses idea, is soooo not in their corporate culture ;)
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Gomvents
msg:3940827 | 10:42 am on Jun 26, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I just checked out kayak - there is nothing super-unique there. It's like hundreds of travel sites out there...
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bateman_ap
msg:3940971 | 2:06 pm on Jun 26, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Ah their plan worked :)
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whoisgregg
msg:3941080 | 4:06 pm on Jun 26, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Search Engine Journal did a side-by-side of screenshots from the two services. It's awfully similar. The positioning of elements and language used is virtually identical. The main difference is the Bing header is taller. Otherwise, even the advertising is positioned similarly and styled similarly. It's hard for me to believe that the designers at Microsoft & Farecast who worked on this portal didn't specifically use the Kayak interface as inspiration. What a shame. ::sigh::
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Strapworks
msg:3941126 | 5:10 pm on Jun 26, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Bing isn't close enough to lose anything to Kayak. Just another marketing tactic by a failing website.
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Hugene
msg:3941148 | 5:50 pm on Jun 26, 2009 (gmt 0) |
By "Just another marketing tactic by a failing website" you mean Bing right ? ;)
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BriGuy20
msg:3941416 | 1:35 am on Jun 27, 2009 (gmt 0) |
People were using Bing when it first came out (#2 search engine), if that's continuing I wouldn't call Bing a failing website.
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JS_Harris
msg:3941560 | 10:39 am on Jun 27, 2009 (gmt 0) |
Bing has never been #2, not even remotely close according to my stats. G and Y are safe, actually even G's image search is beating bingo in my case traffic-wise. [edited by: JS_Harris at 10:40 am (utc) on June 27, 2009]
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ken_b
msg:3941636 | 4:11 pm on Jun 27, 2009 (gmt 0) |
That may be true for your site(s), but not for others. In my case, Bing has already passed up Yahoo to take second place. That still leaves Google in front by a lot of course. All of which only goes to show that results vary by site.
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Ozymandias
msg:3942186 | 1:43 am on Jun 29, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I thing the reason Bing is #2 right now is it made quite a buzz when it launched. I would expect it to fall back to third in several months, I think right now its a lot of people testing it out and evaluating it. Regardless, it has significantly increase MS's market share.
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arizonadude
msg:3942501 | 2:47 pm on Jun 29, 2009 (gmt 0) |
| I think right now its a lot of people testing it out and evaluating it. |
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I don't think it's going to fall back as much as people think. If people are evaluating and liking it, whey would they switch back?
I've been using it solid for several weeks now and have been able to find exactly what I was looking for each time on the first page. I can't say the same for Google when I used it last. I'm a 10 year Google die hard and see no reason to go back to using the plain boring google. Google has morphed to something I do not recognize anymore. What drove me to use them in the beginning has been lost.
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graeme_p
msg:3947269 | 10:56 pm on Jul 6, 2009 (gmt 0) |
I liked Bing at first but I soon ran into limitations. My experience has been that it sucks at long phrases and ambiguous words. I used Blind Search for a few days to check I was not being biased, and that confirmed it.
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arizonadude
msg:3947289 | 11:47 pm on Jul 6, 2009 (gmt 0) |
| My experience has been that it sucks at long phrases |
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No worse than Google, for the long phrases I do on Google, all I get is junk. Guess it just depends on what your searching for. I'm still using Bing and in fact don't like going to google anymore because the boring white blinds me.
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bouncybunny
msg:3960323 | 3:01 pm on Jul 27, 2009 (gmt 0) |
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