Will Microsoft *BING* Google?

As you all should know by now, Google is the king when it comes to search, some may argue it's not useful and some worships her, but the fact is, it's the most widely used search service in the world.

A lot has tried to compete with it but deep down inside, they know it's not easy, people is so use to Google that anythin else will just slip their minds, sounds like Google has manage to embed da G in our thoughts, I think it's just a habit thing.

Compare to Yahoo, Microsoft atleast were tryin to do right with it's search engine, and tried they did, with names, from Live searches, to Kumo, all just doesn't seem to keep customers to stick with it. The latest of their efforts is call Bing, I believe it doesn't meant to mean anything, my guess it's the sound *bing*, you know....the sound when someone has an idea and a light bulb appears on top of their head..

Here we use Linkin Park as our search term, looks quite similar to Google. On the left column, there's some suggestions.

On the right side of all results there's a small orange circle which when you point at it, will give you a preview text of the site before you decide to go there.

One notable difference is the video results, if you click on the video results, a few suggested videos will appear, somethin' similar with Google, but this one actually plays if you point at it.

Bing has it's own page on Images, Videos, etc just like Google, here's the Image section, just like Google you can choose what results to show, over here we select wide version of any image.

And here we will get a poster like size if we select tall. Many of other things to try out like color and resolution too.

Again one of the unique features of Bing is the Video results, as seem here in the video section, all results can be previewed by pointing your mouse at it, it sounds like it's gonna be heaven for underage kids and porn, since you don't actually have to click to view anything, no trace can be found too I believe ;). Left side you see some options similar to Google, but I kinda like this better, it's cleaner.

It's actually not bad coming from Microsoft, there's not much comparison done by my, whichever is better is searches, Google will still be the first people go to, it's in our blood, Bing's front page is also more pleasant, with some pretty random picture everytime. And it looks like Microsoft is also planning to integrate all Windows Live account in it's searches, just like iGoogle, it's a start, but hard.

Another note is, each country has it's own preference set, I found that my country doesn't have some buttons which USA has, so it's better to set to USA to see full feature, hey if you wanna compete with Google, everyone should experience the full feature of the engine..

I just noticed if you switch to have US's main Bing page, the images might include some boxes around if you point around, and pointing at the small boxes will show information about it, hmm interesting indeed..go ahead and give *bing* a try.

On a final note, it's common people say they've googled somethin or someone, but to say you bing someone sounds like you did somethin naughty HAH, it's still on BETA btw...try it you may like it.
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Google Earth easter egg

Google not only a search engine although it started that way, has provided a lot of cool stuff. One of the earliest known application is Google Earth. Latest version is version 5.

But I believe most of you already knew about this interestin' application, unless there's a place you're curious to see from space, it's just to big to browse around, it seems like a huge work to bring us this application, and still they have the time to have fun with it.

They've included the planet Mars for you to view as well, so why would you visit Mars anyway, there's nothing there to see, other than the ice cap on the north pole and the famous human face like formation on the ground. But I wanted to introduce you to someone there, yes...a Martian livin there!

So here's how, first of course you need Google Earth. Then on top there's a planetary button, click and choose Mars.


Once there, you can see a few color dots on Mars, some places named by scientist and also you can find famous landscapes. In the search bar marked in the red box; search for Meliza, yes a female Martian.


Now you see MELIZA, the female (I think) Martian, appropriately placed near the famous landmark call Cydonia (the face on Mars)


And my chat with her, hahaha


Here's my other conversation with Meliza:

Meliza:Greetings, Earthling! Tell me about yourself.

Earthling:hi Martian

Meliza:Are you sure? Maybe hi earthling

Earthling:but you are not an Earthling

Meliza:What makes you think I am not an earthling ?

Earthling:because you are not on Earth

Meliza:My friend Marvin has been meaning to use his Eludium Pu-36 on the Earth. He's always annoyed with how Earth obstructs his view of Venus.

Earthling:go ahead
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Search color with Google

A new feature from Google Labs has been released. Apparently you can Google search image easily now with a few options to sort out what image you actually want, for example, color, sketch, drawing, etc.

If you didn't know, you can actually do that before this new feature is out. So for example, if you're lookin' for a Ferrari in yellow, all you do is type 'ferrari +yellow', and you'll get yellow ferrari, so now you don't have to actually type yellow, instead just choose yellow from the available color choice.

And apparently there's a pink version of Ferrari too hah.

Some other useful options other than colors are, New Content, Faces, Clip Art, Line drawings and Photo content. And of course the color of your choice may not be available for you, you can still continue searching with the 'item +color' method. So give this new function a try, another great feature from Google, type less and click more, that's the future.
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