Comments on: Searchme Bings Better than Bing

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By: donkissotes

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By: Mihaela Lica

Mihaela Lica — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:01:29 +0000

@mathieuf – Thank you very much. It feels good to know that at least one reader appreciates the effort. :)

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By: mathieuf

mathieuf — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:25:03 +0000

@mihaela lica – You received a lot of flack for this article. But I liked it as well. It exposed a lot of other search engines, and a lot of opinions. Search engine makers, take note! As a customer, I have different requirements if I want a quick answer or am doing deeper research, if I want more visual results or more text results, if I’m on a fast connection or not. There are a lot of tools available to me, only some of which have been mentioned above.

By: Mihaela Lica

Mihaela Lica — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:33:44 +0000

@Charles Sweeney – I am very much with you on the Twitter thing,I guess I am pretty old fashioned myself. :) But really Charles, with Google’s technology, Searcheme could be huge, and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that.

@Red – my article is not bad for the reasons you imply, Red. Just because you don’t like Searchme you shouldn’t assume that any article that doesn’t paint Bing in golden colors is bad. FYI, I read the press and the percentage of bad Bing reviews is very low. I don’t understand what gave you the impression in my article that I am a Microsoft hater. The title? Well, then that was a good title: it made you read some of the article and express an opinion. About the obscene image: it is there so that no one from searchme could come back and say “we do not have pornography issues, you are wrong.” This can help them fix the issue and it also shows the readers one of Searchme’s worst problems. FYI, Bing had a similar issue shortly after launch too, but they fixed it.

@Darren884 – catchy headline indeed. :) As for “biased opinion” – nothing in my article is biased. It’s a search engine review, no more, no less. The only reason I compared it with Bing in the title is because, like many others, I expected Bing to be a bit more than a pretty face.

@Robin – I am glad you liked the article. I guess you are one of the very few. :)

@Dr John – you are right, it is rather slow to use, and the search results are obviously lacking the quality offered by the major players. But the search results quality issue is faced by all small search engines trying to compete with Google, Bing, Yahoo! and etc. As you note, my focus was on the features that are not offered by the big players: the splendid visual interface, the social/ share function and the stacks. These are features not so difficult to implement and in my opinion, the modern search engine should be able to offer them. I was expecting Bing to do it, that’s all.

By: john

john — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:46:00 +0000

man, space time is buggy!

By: Dr John

Dr John — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:25:37 +0000

How many search results can you see at a time – two or three.
So searching through them is a slow process. Pretty to look at, but pretty slow to use. So it has a big usability problem, unless the site you want is among the first three – five it returns. IMHO

I tried the spacetime search mentioned elsewhere, and the entire PC ground to a halt as it composed the images for the results.

There is another engine which adds a small thumnail next to the standard list of returns which is much faster to use (but it’s name escapes me, and I’m using a borrowed PC so it isn’t bookmerked, sorry. Any know it?)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:14:06 +0000

How many search results can you see at a time – two or three.
So searching through them is a slow slow process. Pretty to look at, but pretty slow to use. So it has a big usability problem, unless the site you want is among the first three – five it returns. IMHO

By: Darren884

Darren884 — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:08:07 +0000

You know as a long time supporter of Sitepoint I would think you guys would be more professional than to post biased opinions, especially in your article titles, but I guess I am wrong.