The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, It’s…Bing!

re: The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, It’s…Bing!

damaster — Fri, 29 May 2009 05:51:13 GMT

@JohnCz: I guess the question remains what www.live.com will be used for. Either for Windows Live Home (very likely) or the information site currently at www.windowslive.com/explore .

I wonder what this means for My.Live.com which is supposed to be managed by the Live Search/Bing team. Abandoned? Move back to Windows Live? I actually wish that to move back to the www.live.com domain - but significantly upgraded of course.

re: The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, It’s…Bing!

quikboy — Fri, 29 May 2009 03:50:00 GMT

Has anybody not seen the videos of Bing? It's practically is Live Search, but with a new look and different layout. I didn't see many new "features" that made it different.

Bing is an ok name (compared to the yucky Kumo), but there are definitely better ones. The logo is horrendous though! No sense of design at all. And I'm not too keen on the UI of the search engine.

I like how Microsoft is focusing on making the engine more info-oriented at least, than just millions of hits on a bland page.

re: The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, It’s…Bing!

Alber1690 — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:26:39 GMT

I really want to find that Star Trek parody :(

re: The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, It’s…Bing!

lbastie — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:24:19 GMT

Woz-Bing! Apple Co-Founder a "Big Fan" of Microsoft's New Search Engine:

finance.yahoo.com/.../Woz-Bing!-Apple-Co-Founder-a-%22Big-Fan%22-of-Microsofts-New-Search-Engine

CARLSBAD, CALIF. - Microsoft's new search engine Bing was unveiled Thursday and can already boast about a rousing endorsement from an unexpected source: Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak.

"That was the most astounding software demo I've every seen," Wozniak tells Tech Ticker after seeing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled Bing at the All Things Digital Conference here.

re: The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, It’s…Bing!

surilamin — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:40:41 GMT

Here's what I'm worried about, I don't give a damn about the name, brand confusion will happen...but with all the cool new features shown on Bing, who say Google won't just copy them...

People use google not because its the best search engine, but because its habitual.

re: The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, It’s…Bing!

Khristopher — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:24:02 GMT

First of all... the name. What a stupid name.

Just what Microsoft really needs, yet another product with a new name to confuse people more.

Also, shouldn't Steve Ballmer know a little bit more information about the product his company is releasing when announcing a product? He comes off as such a loser to me.

I won't comment on the new product itself until I've tried it. I have a feeling though, I won't be using it more than a handful of times.

re: The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, It’s…Bing!

JohnCz — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:02:11 GMT

@foaf, you pretty much said everything I wanted to say.

It was necessary...consumers saw Live as a portal for a bunch of things besides search. Live is a bit to generic for a name. Obviously this would have been more transparent had they done this a year ago before Wave 3 launch. However it is much better they do so now when they are still at 8% "search" marketshare then at 15% for example.

As for Windows Live...I don't think this changes a thing. Only that www.live.com probably will be a portal site for consumers to learn about Windows Live and Office Live. That is something that is sorely missing and not adequately served by download.live.com.

re: The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, It’s…Bing!

ProSieben — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:44:38 GMT

the name sounds cheap. Now I will never use the Microsoft Search if the name does not change. Bing is ugly

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foaf — Thu, 28 May 2009 18:38:45 GMT

This is good. Because...

We all love Windows Live (by default of being on liveside you do :) but MSFT got confused by launching all online services under the Windows Live umbrella. Since then it's tried to seperate apps from search, ie Windows Live and Live Search.

This has been too confusing for consumers, even though it makes sense in a logical naming convention kind of way.

Step in a new brand name, and consolidate a few services and the seperation is complete. Windows Live is the online apps of Windows and Bing is its own search engine, free of Windows Live wave 3.4 headers etc.

Admitedly Bing Maps does sound a bit 'Yahoo!' to me, but as long as they rid themselves of multimap in the UK and focus solely on a single global brand of Bing Maps I will be happy.

re: The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, It’s…Bing!

samzbest — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:23:31 GMT

I really think it can make a difference seeing the pics and if it does aftera couple of montsh stay in the minds of people it could be a well of time to aquire yahoo search

here is my pictorial review of this

technoratisam.blogspot.com/.../microsoft-bing-complete-reviewwith.html

re: The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, It’s…Bing!

rb1385 — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:49:51 GMT

I hope it works but it sure sounds like a dumb name to me...

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Ogden2k — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:47:40 GMT

My last comment was directed to the name; however the actual search engine itself looks interesting: www.discoverbing.com/.../productGuide.aspx

re: The Cat Is Out Of The Bag, It’s…Bing!

Ogden2k — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:42:36 GMT

Bing Earth, are you serious? Why change the name. Bing is such a foolish name.

What else are they going to ruin? Bing Mail? Xbox Bing? I may just move to GMail if this happens. :|