Bing search, try it out

I'm sure most of you have heard of the new Bing search from Microsoft.  I've been using it for a while (I've always been fond of the Image search capabilities, infinite scrolling, filtering, and the previews) and I'm pleasantly surprised to say it's been working very well for me.  It's called a decision engine and there's lots of examples of why, from travel, to shopping to health questions but here is a very simple example of why I like it.

 I was trying to plan for our next fiscal year and needed to know approximately when Ramadan would fall in 2009, so I did what most people would do, a quick search on the internet.  First place I tried was Bing (my default search provider) and the very 1st thing on the page is the answer I'm looking for, not just a link to where I can find the answer, but the actual answer (this one coming from timeanddate.com) .... looks like Ramadan will fall around August 22nd, 2009.  You can try it with other search providers and all of them will pretty much let you find the answer (in fact the search result links are ordered in pretty much the same way across most) but it's nice to just get an answer some times. 

 

 

 Try it out for yourself and decide, next time Bing it (all Chandler jokes aside).

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 09, 2009
  A big thumbs-up here for Bing!

• Anonymous
  July 15, 2009
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