Would love to have “word proximity” search capabilities. I use dtSearch for searching local files and can find a words that are a specified number of words apart.

Also, I use Copernic Agent when I want pages that are valid, accessible, and contain all of my search words. It takes longer to get results but it’s much easier after the search is complete to browser through the results. If Bing engineers could find better ways to validate links and content that would be outstanding.

These new features continue the direction in which Microsoft began when they first launched Bing. It looks more oriented to the American users than to the global audience.

I didn’t expect Wolfarm to be integrated so fast into a major search engine…

Nice features.

The biggest problem with Bing is simply the number of web pages indexed.

Type ‘site:youtube.com’ into Google and you get 665,000,000 results. The same search on Bing US yields only 36,100,000.

‘site:bing.com’ on Google finds 11,700,000 pages v 605,000 on Bing.

On my own humble site, OOltra.net, the figures are 1970 v 21.

If you want to be sure of finding something, don’t use Bing!

I didn’t care too much for bing when it first came out. I thought it was flashy and nice w/ a little too much clutter though (on the home page). I also didn’t think much about its searching capabilities. Although I am a huge Google fan, recent searches in Bing have me thinking different about it. My opinion of the large image on the home page still remains, but I guess it’s just a matter of getting used to it.

I have used Bing on multiple occasions since it has been rolled out. Since most of my use of Searches is for research, I do not need Microsoft telling me what I should view, and in fact vastly prefer the old MSN searches or Yahoo (better research results).
Believe me I would love to see Google brought down a few notches since they have allowed so much plagiarism of my research to be displayed with Adsense (as well as other areas of corporate corruption), however IMHO Microsoft nor its recently acquired Yahoo need to find their own niche; this is simple business 101.

Although I think poorly of the corporate morals of Google, they are very smart in that they provide so many useful services and continue to build on this (such as Google Apps, Blogger, etc.), while Bing and Yahoo continue to attempt to go head to head with Google for searches rather than draw potential users via unique services as Google does
(Sorry Yahoo Answers does not count as this is a well known joke in my industry)

“Bing will also rely on Wolfraph Alpha’s ability to solve complex math functions.”

Should be Wolfram.

But Wolfram Alpha is one of my favorite online applications, I’m am slightly sad that it has come to Bing, though. Maybe they will work things out (and maybe their new improvements will alleviate the problem), but I have found their results to be too commonly irrelevant.

We need Bing to succeed. The only way for this technology to evolve is through competition. It is good to see Microsoft still pushing hard to innovate. I try using Bing when I can, but it seems I always find myself checking with google. In doing so, I am always amazed how the two have different results. What I am also amazed by is the fact that our of millions of results, usually only the first few pages have relevant information. They still both have a long ways to go.

There those of us out there who need to be told what to look at, personally I am not of big fan of bing. Thought it did start of with some pretty neat adverts, not enough to get people searching an browsing using this engine. I advertise my business with Bing Cash Back and i do say my turn around is far greater than that of the Google product search, Yahoo Shopping, & all those other guys. I personally can’t get into using Bing as a search engine- (Hooked) on Google, far greater results with Google than with Bing. ” But the Proof Is the Pudding” I do look forward to Bing Getting a grasp on offering a more sociable approach to the user, than that of a robot.

I hate Bing!.!.!

It’s a shame there still isn’t a way to add a UK listing in the local search section. I don’t appear at all on the local listings and there’s no way to add my listing. The website has been around for a long time, ranks highly and appears in Google local listings so it’s not because it’s a new site.