bing: Some thoughts about Usability

June 12th, 2009 by admin

I was checking the new Microsoft’s search engine bing, and my first thinking was: “this is a very graphic search engine, that uses powerful imagery that’s is eye catching…it’s nice”.  I see that there is no search button, even I don’t see the word “search” on the homepage!  I like the image background, that seems to change almost daily and I see that this image has additional hidden information, if you mouse over the background you will see some square if you point it you will see some information to discover, to Explore.  Sounds like bing is not really a search engine, instead it’s a explore engine.

I see also a search history, that’s cool (but it’s a waste, the browsers has one already).  For the results of an image search they use iframes with a lot of results and no pagination, I’m not a big fan of iframes,  its confusing.

The video search is like crazy, it’s enough just to touch a video with the mouse by accident for start it, it’s funny.. try activate many at the same time oops I don’t want to hear this!! stop, stop.  Why they just don’t put a play button and if you want to “preview play” a video you choose and play it.

I like the feature of the preview images and preview information for both search, safe a little time.

Other thing, I suppose that the Bing site display beautiful in IE, but using Firefox with Mac, I see some design related issues.

Comparing Bing with Google… I think the people will decide and my feeling is that Google is just to many years ahead of Bing.

And finally, I really don’t know if its name is Bing or bing.

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