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28.05.09
a new search
The new search engine by Microsoft will go by the name of Bing (not Kumo) and will replace Live Search. It’s too easy to bash them or an engine that’s not operational yet. What I can say is that they deserve better logo designs and should try to ban fade-to-white images (see video) out of gui designs. Startup screens: here & here.
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I guess the guys at Microsoft will never learn to design… But its part of their identity now, so hey…
Also, I really get seconds thoughts when looking at the video. I’m afraid it’s too big, too complex, too many options, trying to be all sites at once and not a search engine… (thats my little ‘linux and free-software’ voice talking, where every software does somethig very small, but very good)
And to continue this little rant… ‘Bing’ shows a strategy where Microsoft apparently knows exactly how we use search engines… It’s a very ‘top-down decided’ approach… This in contrast to Google, Facebook, Flickr etc.. that started as simple tools, and then developed according to the needs of the users…
End of bash. :)
i remember hating the google logo too. Didnt seem to matter as far as succes goes. But what was great about google is that it was so fast. The simple page (white, txt and logo) helped doing that. I dont know if these big photos are a good idea for a search page.
Is this the logo of a Friends spin-off series? “Could search results be any better?”
O wow really interesting new work stuff… no really interesting… no really
Do they really think that they can make a difference with this. We already have Google and scoopler’s real-time search – what else do we need? Not that crappy background pictures anyhow…
BING : But It’s Not Google