Bing

2009-06-03 : rambling

Microsoft still doesn’t get it.

Bing delivers shitty results. Shitty results with more context, maybe, but shitty results nonetheless. And tons of shitty slow-loading images. It looks like shit. It’s visually confusing. Space is wasted everywhere in the results.

You can’t beat Google with a $100mm advertising campaign, pretending that you’re Apple and have a luxury product. Your product sucks. For the Apple approach to work, you have to actually have an Apple product.

Wake me up when it can find me something on the Internet.

1. The little one line ad/rss thingy above my gmail had a Bing advertisement in it. I clicked on it, amused. It went to a bing search for “alta vista search engine”. Weirdest advertisement I’ve seen yet.

   
   — カイル    3 June 2009    #