Bing! Microsoft To Take On Google Search

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Microsoft has begun the UK roll-out of Bing, the search engine it hopes can rival Google.

It replaces their existing Live Search and aims to offer more "intuitive" answers to questions.

Bing officially launches in the UK on Wednesday but a beta version is already live.

It will remain in beta for six to nine months in the UK as more features are added. The US version launched last week.

Features include a more sophisticated video search, which offers previews of the clips without having to leave the results page.

About time Live was rubbish,slow,and heavy

I just tyred it out and its seems much better,cleaner, although i don't like the image on the site :P

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http://www.bing.com/

[Hazza]

Looks horrible but I hope they do well :)

[Chippiewill]

It's a shame MS are to late, google have already won the war with wave

[The Professor]

BING! I can't see "Just Bing it" taking off the same way as "Just Google it" has but good luck to them.

[Hazza]

Oh plus I hate the name..

[Flisker]

You do know this is Microsoft and they could make Bing the default search engine and the average user would just use Bing because it's there available to them. So to be honest I can see bing picking up for the average user.

[jackass]

You do know this is Microsoft and they could make Bing the default search engine and the average user would just use Bing because it's there available to them. So to be honest I can see bing picking up for the average user.

But then they would just get sued for 'disrupting the competition', like what happened with the whole Windows Live situation.

[Flisker]

But then they would just get sued for 'disrupting the competition', like what happened with the whole Windows Live situation.
then why do they have msn.com as the default home page on all OS's? that has a search tool etc?

[Jordan,]

The name is bad but its better then live search

[The Professor]

But then they would just get sued for 'disrupting the competition', like what happened with the whole Windows Live situation.

I think I missed that story, link me up! I'd heard about some anti-competitve thing with Windows shipping with IE and no other browsers but not anything to do with Live.

[Nick.]

Silly name that hasn't really been thought out and the design is the biggest pile of ... i have ever seen. The logo looks stretched and it all looks like one of them sites you get redirected to when you go on a expired domain (that just has a picture on and a load of ads)

[Neil]

I saw the logo and couldn't think what it looked like, then I noticed play.co.uk and thought they were very similar but Bings was in the shape of a b.

[Wootzeh]

I've been trying to use it. It's no google.

[Verrou]

Meh, why don't Microsoft realise it's too late. Google has won.

[Laurensh1]

I like the imagessearching, that one is good.