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I am Willing to Try Bing, But So Far It Sucks

June 26th, 2009 Stroybeans No comments

As you probably know Microsoft launched its newest search engine a couple of weeks ago, called Bing. Some blogs and newspapers reported that the search engine quickly gained market share, and that on some days it was ranking in the second position, above Yahoo!.

If nothing else I also think that we should give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt and try Bing out. Competition is healthy in any market, and Google is not far from having a monopoly in search (thanks to the quality of its service, it is true, but still).

One good move from Microsoft was to opt for a clean homepage. I can’t stand Yahoo! exactly because in order to search there I need to go across all the clutter that they put on the front page.

The problem are the search results. They might need some time to tweak the algorithm, but so far it has not impressed me at all. Here are some examples that I gathered in five minutes before writing this post:

1. Searched for “blog tips”

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Daily Blog Tips is number one on Google and Yahoo! for that term, but on Bing it was no where to be found. Problogger should be there too, but I couldn’t find it either.

2. Searched for “john chow”

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The original John Chow was not there, and instead the first result pointed to a squatter domain (www.john-chow.com) that just has some ads….

3. Searched for “stuntdubl”

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I wanted to give Bing a nudge, so I searched for the exact name of Todd Malicoat’s blog (he is a top SEO guy, and the blog is pretty famous too). Still Bing displayed Todd’s blog only in the fifth position.

For now, therefore, I am sticking with good old Google.

What about you, have you tried Bing? What kind of results did you get?

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Microsoft Next OS? Windows Veinna Or Windows 7

November 20th, 2007 Informer No comments

Windows Veinna Or Windows 7

Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb, then Vienna) is a future version of Microsoft Windows. It is expected to be the successor to Windows Vista. Microsoft has confirmed that the planned development time frame is at least three years, putting the release date around 2010. On July 20, 2007, Microsoft confirmed that Windows 7 is “the internal name for the next version of the Windows Client OS”.

Microsoft has refrained from discussing the details about Windows 7 publicly as they focus on the release and marketing of Windows Vista, though some early details of various core operating system features have emerged at developer conferences such as Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in 2006.

Focus

On February 9, 2007, Microsoft’s Ben Fathi claimed that the focus on the operating system was still being worked out, and could merely hint at some possibilities.

“”We’re going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe it’s hypervisors. I don’t know what it is” [...] “Maybe it’s a new user interface paradigm for consumers.” ”

Bill Gates, in an interview with Newsweek, also suggested that the next version of Windows would “be more user-centric.” When asked to clarify what he meant, Gates said:

“ “That means that right now when you move from one PC to another, you’ve got to install apps on each one, do upgrades on each one. Moving information between them is very painful. We can use Live Services to know what you’re interested in. So even if you drop by a [public] kiosk or somebody else’s PC, we can bring down your home page, your files, your fonts, your favorites and those things. So that’s kind of the user-centric thing that Live Services can enable. [Also,] in Vista, things got a lot better with [digital] ink and speech, but by the next release there will be a much bigger bet. Students won’t need textbooks; they can just use these tablet devices. Parallel computing is pretty important for the next release. We’ll make it so that a lot of the high-level graphics will be just built into the operating system. So we’ve got a pretty good outline.”

Other features

Another feature mentioned by Bill Gates is “a pervasive typing line that will recognize the sentence that [the user is] typing in.” The implications of this could be as simple as a “complete as you type” function as found in most modern search engines, (e.g. Google Suggest) or as complex as being able to give verbal commands to the PC without any concern for syntax.

 MinWin

On October 13, 2007, Eric Traut gave a presentation in which he demonstrated a minimalistic variation of the Windows 7 kernel, known as MinWin.

Backward compatibility

The client versions of Windows 7 will ship in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Server versions of Windows 7, however, will be exclusively 64-bit.

[Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Vienna]

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Three More Patches For Microsoft Windows Vista

November 17th, 2007 Informer No comments

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 Microsoft plans to release new Windows Vista Updates via Windows Update this week. Microsoft also says that these updates will be included in the first Windows Vista Service Pack (SP1) which they plans to launch early next year. The patches increases the performance, reliability, and stability of the operating system.

It includes an update on system compatibility, reliability and stability which actually improves the battery life of Notebook PCs, increases the performance of wireless connections and also improves the response time of the operating system, an update to USB core components and an update to Windows Media Center.

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Email Address @live.com Available Now

November 12th, 2007 Informer No comments

Yes,  you heard the right thing. Now you can get email addreses @live.com.

Microsoft added @live.com among @hotmail.com in their email service.

Every One was waiting so long for @Live.com Email id’s so that they can register some cool names @live.com So the wait is over go rush and get some cool id’s before some1 else do,  i also have register some cool id’s. So why waiting? Go!

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