Bing: The “Old New Thing” *

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tophtucker — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:58:09 GMT

When people ask me what I think of this radical new search engine they've just heard of, I can't decide whether to reveal that very little of it is new (and thereby risk deterring people from checking it out).

The power of a brand. It's remarkable. And a little sad. But oh well.

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surilamin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:30:12 GMT

Kudos to you Kip for calling out these 'bloggers.' I saw the tweet from Calacanis and then the article on techcrunch late last night and was like wtf are they talking about, these features were in Live for some time. Oh well, it just goes to show how much of an impact a change of name can have...

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lord_canti86 — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:11:07 GMT

This is right up there with the discovery of "new" features like image search scrolling and video thumbnail playback. Pricelesss

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quikboy — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 07:26:05 GMT

I'm just been laughing when people have discovered these 'new' features. It's been on Live Search for so long, and I thought people tried Live Search, and didn't like it, despite some of its interesting features like these. This just shows that people can be such twits, and not even try something out fully, unless it has some stupid name, a different look, and whatever. I still don't like the Bing name or the look, but it's working.