I am loving it... I am now officially switched over to Bing (yes, I've dumped Google). I have gone for a more attractive search engine that looks stylish and cool to the eye. Bing gives me what I need (when I search; does it use the Google search engine also to retrieve searches?).
I love the image and the video search. Esp. image search is freaking awesome. It has a very nice gallery look to it when displaying image searches. When you move your mouse over an image thumbnail, it gives you details about the image resolutions, etc which makes it easy for me when looking for wallpapers and also its cool. I also love the way that a preview of the video plays (it plays small pieces from the original video and these pieces are picked randomly within the video) when you move your mouse over the video thumbnail (on the video search). Now coming to the suggestions
1. The white textbox in the homepage to enter our searches amidst the very attractive background image stands out like a sore thumb. Could you guys try to make the search textbox glossy and transparent (the way you have done for the "Explore" menu on the left)?
2. You guys should include Veoh as a source for video searches (collaboration with Veoh would be good). They host movies and many good videos. I personally watch lot of movies from Veoh and so do many of my friends.
3. When clicking on a video and watching the full video, the embedded video from the respective source is small and it has a huge black background. Instead the black background could be avoided and a white background that matches the background of that page would make it look better
As I browse through Bing more, will post more (if I have more!). On the whole, its a terrific entry by Microsoft into the search engine market. Microsoft has added its gloss and color to search and I am sure this will be a huge hit among the audience. Right now, Bing is my homepage and my search provider for IE 8.
I love the image and the video search. Esp. image search is freaking awesome. It has a very nice gallery look to it when displaying image searches. When you move your mouse over an image thumbnail, it gives you details about the image resolutions, etc which makes it easy for me when looking for wallpapers and also its cool. I also love the way that a preview of the video plays (it plays small pieces from the original video and these pieces are picked randomly within the video) when you move your mouse over the video thumbnail (on the video search). Now coming to the suggestions
1. The white textbox in the homepage to enter our searches amidst the very attractive background image stands out like a sore thumb. Could you guys try to make the search textbox glossy and transparent (the way you have done for the "Explore" menu on the left)?
2. You guys should include Veoh as a source for video searches (collaboration with Veoh would be good). They host movies and many good videos. I personally watch lot of movies from Veoh and so do many of my friends.
3. When clicking on a video and watching the full video, the embedded video from the respective source is small and it has a huge black background. Instead the black background could be avoided and a white background that matches the background of that page would make it look better
As I browse through Bing more, will post more (if I have more!). On the whole, its a terrific entry by Microsoft into the search engine market. Microsoft has added its gloss and color to search and I am sure this will be a huge hit among the audience. Right now, Bing is my homepage and my search provider for IE 8.
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But I forget my area code at times and the google front page doesn't sort my confusion.
There's no ETA on when this feature will be arriving in NZ... no disrespect to NZ, it's just a process.
