Turns out someone on the Microsoft ‘Bing’ team really hates Canada.
If early reviews of Microsoft’s new ‘Bing’ search engine are any indication, the service will be like Microsoft itself. Some will love it, most will use it, and some will believe it to be pure evil pouring through network cables all over the world. Canadians, though, may find the new ‘Explore Canada’ feature most interesting. Right under the ‘Explore Canada’ logo, the test version of the new site lets people know that “Canada has so many things to see and do”.
First on the list? You guessed it, that great Canadian attraction, the Oil Sands!
Hmmm. Turns out you can find activists in the most unlikely places.
I’m not sure of the mechanics behind this feature and how on earth it would have generated the list that is currently there, but I sure hope they get it fixed before the final version goes live. If they are using a ranking system based on number of searches, that would be interesting – but its certainly not indicative of the things to ’see and do’ in Canada!
So far I share CNET’s initial enthusiasm, but I’m definitely hoping this feature is either better described or better executed in the final version.
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I don’t think this is a programming thing. It seems to me that this had to have been done intentionally.
This is a great article. I’m new to blogging but still learning. Thanks for the great resource.
I agree. I tried Bing but when I tried searching for people and things Canadian, I had to revert back to Google to get any meaningful search results.
Bing = Vista????
my initial test result shows that Bing is as good as Google when displaying relevant search results. Google might be having a tough competitor with Microsofts own search engine.
Microsoft Bing would be the closet competitor of Google. but i still use Google because it shows more relevant results on the serp.
Bing search engine gives almost the same search results as Google. Looks like Google will now have a tough competition when it comes to search engine technology.
Bing does give search results much like Google but i would have to say that Google still gives more relevant search results
i have been using the BING search engine for a couple of weeks. it seems to be as good as Google but for some reason i would still want to stick with Google search engine
i am using both Bing and Google a nd i thin k both search engines give relevant search results. i would still prefer Google though, because it gives a little bit more relevant search results than Bing.
BING search engine is just as good as Google. In my own personal experience, Google does give more releveant search result than Bing but the difference is very small. **
i am a user of Microsofts BING search engine and it is as good as google search. for searching blogs, i think google gives more relevant search results compared bing.
my default search engine is Yahoo but now i am using BING because it is much better than Yahoo. i heard that Bing search engine would power Yahoo search also.
I use both Bing and Google search engine and i dont see much difference in their search results. I use google for searching hard to find academic topics and Bing for general search.