Microsoft Bing – Careless or Stupid?

Posted by vinhboy on Saturday, May 30th, 2009 in Internet.

Look closely at the action links on the top right. Come on, seriously, if I was this careless at my job, I would deserve to be fired immediately!

At first I thought it was just in any other browsers besides IE because Microsoft is a dick and does not test in other browsers, but that’s not the case. Running this website on IE, with SilverLight turned off, gives the same result.

Bing is getting a TON of press lately, and I am sure millions of people are hitting this website. What does it say about your product when you can’t even get a simple CSS rule right?

Other minor annoyances:

1) The hover state for the button flickers because it’s not aligned correctly

2) Although there are only a couple of links, such as “Terms of Use”, “Trademarks”, etc… They all link to different domains – What is up with that? Is it so hard to have a proper domain structure?

3) What is the hell is up with capitalizing file names? URI are case sensitive, just try changing Default.html to default.html and you get a “Page Not Found”.

Come on Microsoft, it’s not that hard.

26 Comments

  1. msworld Says (June 1st, 2009):

    are you telling me you know more than people that actually have a CS degree?

  2. Alex Says (June 13th, 2009):

    Did u know that BING is stupid. Steve Ballmer wants to kill google. Look it up. Also they own the Zune. Zune means the word fuck in Hebrew. Yeah, look that look too. I am not lying. Microsoft should just stop doing stuff. really.

  3. melatoninlady Says (August 22nd, 2009):

    Microsoft Bing would be the closet competitor of Google. but i still use Google because it shows more relevant results on the serp.

  4. George Says (September 2nd, 2009):

    i have been evaluating the search results of Microsoft Bing compared to Google and they are comparable. Bing gives almost the same relevant search results just like Google.

  5. Acneboy Says (September 11th, 2009):

    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.

  6. Rilo Graves Says (October 13th, 2009):

    lol, Bing misses like 90% of Items I Know are there in shopping searches at least.

  7. Jade Says (October 21st, 2009):

    Bing does give search results much like Google but i would have to say that Google still gives more relevant search results.

  8. Jimmy Says (November 2nd, 2009):

    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.

  9. IGuy Says (November 13th, 2009):

    I haven’t had good results with bing. I have found I keep jumping back to Google to do any real search operation.

    Plus the bing interface is incredibly bloated and slow. A search engine should be fast, light weight and minimalist, a fact MS hasn’t learned in their OS’ and I think is just carrying over to their web interfaces to.

  10. Spock Says (December 2nd, 2009):

    Bing is biased, bing is crap. Go to microsofthater.blogspot.com to learn more.

  11. Yumi Vega Says (December 8th, 2009):

    i am using both Bing and Google and i think 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.

  12. Carmen Gomez Says (December 29th, 2009):

    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. **

  13. Tom Says (January 9th, 2010):

    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.

  14. Heather May Says (January 18th, 2010):

    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.

  15. Johnny Blaze Says (January 25th, 2010):

    for my IT class research project I compared the two and 70% +,- 5% of the time google gave more accurate/relevant results. (200 total)

  16. Kymm Says (February 4th, 2010):

    i think that Bing is not as good as Google. Google would still index new websites faster than Bing. Microsoft would still need a lot of catching to do with GoogleBot.

  17. Kim Lautner Says (February 18th, 2010):

    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.

  18. Rex Says (March 1st, 2010):

    I did a test to see which browser could help me find “The chemical processes occuring within a living cell or organism that are necessary for the maintenance of life”. Bing’s link was: Organism – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Google’s was: metabolism: Definition from Answers.com. And it told me that I had misspelled ‘occuring’ which is actually with two r’s. Google rocks balls!

  19. j a hill Says (March 8th, 2010):

    Bing search (etc.) is the most inefficient engine I have encountered – I hope it will move to someone else’s computer or simply lose itself in it morass of search of ignorant search activities.

  20. ram Says (April 6th, 2010):

    http://www.bing.com i am sorry 2 say that u r a fucker and a big and bad weight on net plz close this fucker bing.u fool dont u understand that v the public need a good responce.hope u understood.
    yours bad record vitness
    mrs ram sharma

  21. Holly Martin Says (April 28th, 2010):

    I use Bing and Google whenever i want to find something on the internet. I think that both search engines are very good. `

  22. peter Says (April 30th, 2010):

    i’m sorry, but i’ve given bing a couple of days now. and typically microsoft, it’s not what it says on the tin. with around 50% of searches i get the EXACT same results as google, not ‘more relavent’ results. with the other 50% i get i would honestly say ‘less relavent’ results. and the picture behind the whole page makes it load slowly on anything but my fast broadband at home. back to google me thinks, sorry microsoft. how about stop making game consoles (that don’t work) and search engines (that don’t work like you say it does) and concentrate more on your ‘bread & butter’ – windows. then maybe we’ll get a proper good OS for a change.

  23. Lacey Cook Says (May 6th, 2010):

    It is interesting to compare the performance of Bing and Google search but i haven’t seen any difference at all in their performance. .

  24. Mark K Says (July 15th, 2010):

    Stupid Bing – Trying to impress us with their fact checking

    Engineering Wonders: The Roman Coliseum at El Djem

    http://www.bing.com/featured/content/search?q=Engineering+Wonders%3a+The+Roman+Coliseum+at+El+Djem&FORM=RQHOME

    Bing’s Fact:
    The Roman coliseum at El Djem, Tunisia in northern Africa was built nearly 1,700 centuries ago…

    1700 centuries = 170,000 years

    Roman Kingdom founded 2,763 years ago
    Roman Republic founded 2,519 years ago
    Roman Empire founded 2,011 years ago

    Wooly Mammoths and Neanderthal Man lived 29,000 to 230,000 years ago

    So the Roman coliseum at El Djem, Tunisia was built 167,237 years before anything Roman or anything else in Tunisia. The cavemen must of used the mammoth’s to drag the stones around. Amazing how they were able to build such a beaitful structure using such primitive tools.

  25. KDB Says (July 30th, 2010):

    First comment in over a year.
    Here is why bing is still around; it’s is as simple and mindless as TV. This is not a search engine, this is a TV guide for people who don’t really want to be bothered by knowing stuff.
    The pretty colorful front page cluttered with totally irreverent pictures tells you all you need to know.
    Google is a research tool and bing is how you find like restaurants an stuff.

  26. Samuel Johnson Says (August 11th, 2010):

    it is only a matter of time before Bing Microsoft acquires Yahoo search engine;;:

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