Monday, June 1. 2009

Bing Maps not yet in Bing

Bing (Preview) is live in the U.S. so I gave it my standard search test "kite boston." It rewrote it as Kites in Boston, MA and returned a kite shop some 20 miles away as the top result. I don't like that Bing rewrote the query in the input box; it'd be ok if it responded with "I thought you meant this and queried on it instead," but left my text as it was.

Amusingly:

- The provided map of results moves obediently with you as you scroll down the page. I found that distracting, but perhaps I'll get used to it.

- The map still says Microsoft Virtual Earth on it. (I just noticed that in the Google returns, the map is not logoed at all; it just includes copyright. Perhaps that's a space consideration?)

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Google, Microsoft at 06:12 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0) |