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Re: My Week With Bing

inpaki — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:21:41 -0000

Its good to know where bing is better. I'd like to give my search queries around a bit more. Comments like this help

http://www.methoo.com

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paramendra — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:21:17 -0000

I am deeply honored you should say that. If true, find me a few round 1 angels. ;-) And I will remember you for rounds 2 and 3.

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fredwilson — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:14:08 -0000

We need more ppl like you!

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paramendra — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:05:32 -0000

I went to sleep really late, you can tell, the previous comment says three hours ago. And I am up already. Disqus can do that to you!

On a more serious note, before Disqus there was no serious commenting for me. It felt like such a waste. By now Disqus comments do more for me than even Twitter in some ways. It is a great way to bump into like minded people.

Someone said somewhere that they no longer leave comments if a blog does not have Disqus. On that note, I do want TechCrunch to get Disqus. I dig it that Mashable does. Just like there can't be another Twitter, I have a feeling there can't be another Disqus. Since the idea is that all your comments should also end up at this one place, all your comments at all sorts of blogs.

Because of Disqus I value my comment posting almost as much as posts I put out on my blog these days. Exploring the blogosphere has taken a whole new meaning.

And I got up this morning wanting to compose a reply to your last email to me. ;-)

Ha!

Re: My Week With Bing

fredwilson — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:52:06 -0000

This blog is a testament to why disqus should be on many blogs. Disqus is like liquor. It stimulates the conversations

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paramendra — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:38:06 -0000

Fred, you got such interesting comments sections, I hereby accuse you of pushing your portfolio company Disqus! ;-)

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paramendra — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:36:51 -0000

The web will humble China ultimately.

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paramendra — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:29:58 -0000

Me neither. I doubt I have ever used Yahoo search in a decade except to maybe just drop by to see.

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paramendra — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:27:38 -0000

There is something to the Google dance. When I took the number two spot for Donut Android, my traffic did not spike into the stratosphere.

"....the engine is complicated enough to factor in other stuff, like geographical location, and your own browsing and clicking history...."

Re: My Week With Bing

paramendra — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:24:34 -0000

I think the Joanne Wilson "test" on Google and Bing is a decent layperson indicator that Google is still the superior search machine. I knew that to be true instinctively. That is why today/yesterday was the first time I visited Bing. But they have done good work on (a) presentation and (b) marketing. I am glad they are trying. C for capitalism, c for competition.

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paramendra — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:17:43 -0000

They get an A for marketing effort. Search is a different territory.

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paramendra — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:16:07 -0000

:-)

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paramendra — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:14:33 -0000

You guys/gals cracked at it from the presentation angle. Good idea. Otherwise the search results are hohum.

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paramendra — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:11:01 -0000

I visited Bing for the first time today/yesterday.

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fredwilson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:57:40 -0000

Wow. That's fascinating and enlightening. Thanks!

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fredwilson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:38:19 -0000

Seth Godin sent that to me too. He loves it. Its really slick. I love the CC search option

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maxkalehoff — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:44:27 -0000

Hi Michael. I'm with Clickable and I'd be happy to help you out. Please email me at mkalehoff at clickable dot com

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fredwilson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:06:19 -0000

I love it too. Great find by egoboss/carl

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fredwilson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:06:18 -0000

Indeed

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fredwilson — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:06:15 -0000

Thankfully my 'shareholders' don't really want me investing in china

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ShanaC — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:17:22 -0000

I'm not..I feel overwhelmed by the choice of columns as opposed to other forms of visual mapping such as some sort of three dimensional flowchart that one can flip around (They are using flash...)

Nor am I sure why they are starting out at the local they are for their results if I can move north/south/east/west through the links. What is going on that gives me the results I am getting? What do they mean? Why should I care about the center point versus up versus down? But I do- it means something- I think? Does it? It is semi-intuitive that it should if I were to need something, but how would I figure out which direction to go to for the best result? Down and left tend to have bad cultural meanings- but down tends to be what you do on the web to get more results? Am I supposed to automatically understand you can go up and right? If I searched in Arabic, which is read in the opposite direction as English- would this make a difference? Would you want to do a serious search, like an illness, on it?

And the flash also annoys me- I can't go back through my search and refine it, which is made worse by the fact that I can't save/look back at a search because flash is hard to save since it is a program run on the web. It is not the actual links.

So not only do I not know what the linkage pattern means- I also don't have a way of trying out the process over and over again through saving the pattern to figure out what could the links in their various locations mean.

I find the concept intriguing- but I need a little more of the reveal of what is going on in the search to be happy. I have no clear mental map of what is going on, and I find that someone would waste the time and money to put together a search engine that could potentially confuse the user very disturbing. It means someone out there is jumping the Web 2.0 shark of "It looks cool, hence do it" without thinking about how humans are heuristically guided with different short term and long term memory processes that often relate back to our bodies, our culutre and other skills we learn.

Otherwise it is like a piece of art- It displays the chaos that is the internet without the surface pieces that we use to organize it. Which actually- I don't mind as such.

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scottfromshanghai — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:00:18 -0000

this is nonesense. Bing and hotmail were recently blocked in China for over a week during the Tianamen anniversary, Google was not.

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Aaron — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:38:21 -0000

Shanna - Wow. I agree with Mark... awesome thoughts.

aaronklein - really great first name :)

Mark - thanks for your shout out on Twitter! I'm liking the fact that we get "social media". I'd say we're pretty good at it if I do say so myself.

Fred - I passed along the info about the "Joanne Wilson" query for the feedback team to look into. I'll get back to you when I hear more. No promises ;)

Again, thanks for the shout outs that we "get social media" guys. Any thoughts on these?
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/bing
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bing
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/bing

Cheers!

Aaron
Bing Outreach Team

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afrolov — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:23:37 -0000

For me, Google puts your wife's blog to the fifth place. Could be 'Google dance', but more likely the engine is complicated enough to factor in other stuff, like geographical location, and your own browsing and clicking history. Google knows so much about us it's not even funny.

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