It's fast enough and the results are good enough that I made it my default search engine for the day. This is no small feat, most of the new engines (Cuil, et al) don't get this far.
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My 90 second road-test
I actually prefer the search results UI to google's. It's clean and I'm really digging the smart side-bars.
1a. A search for "python" yields a sidebar with sections for "Overview, Community, Software, Development"
1b. Google gives me a list of results
2a. "Zurich" yields a sidebar with "Weather, Map, Real Estate, Travel, Restaurants"
2b. Google gives me an embedded map, and then a list of results.
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It's a small difference which obviously Google could replicate but at this point in search, the results from all the big players seem to be converging at "very good" so UI is really the only place to innovate anymore and I have to give it to MS on this one.
We'll see how it holds up to daily use but so far, I'm quite impressed.
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My 90 second road-test
I actually prefer the search results UI to google's. It's clean and I'm really digging the smart side-bars.
1a. A search for "python" yields a sidebar with sections for "Overview, Community, Software, Development"
1b. Google gives me a list of results
2a. "Zurich" yields a sidebar with "Weather, Map, Real Estate, Travel, Restaurants"
2b. Google gives me an embedded map, and then a list of results.
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It's a small difference which obviously Google could replicate but at this point in search, the results from all the big players seem to be converging at "very good" so UI is really the only place to innovate anymore and I have to give it to MS on this one.
We'll see how it holds up to daily use but so far, I'm quite impressed.