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Re:Bing: Microsoft Prepares For War With A Revamped Search E... by jasonlbaptiste on Thursday May 28, 2009 @01:27PM (#630625)
It's different and I like the thesis behind it: "decision engine". A good way to understand search is to see how people make the decisions to go about what they're searching for. Keyword they start out with, its variants, the final answer/result, and what form of search they should be using. travel? local? image? etc. It's all going to come down to execution though (Cliche, but relevant here more than ever). If it sucks, then 80 mil in advertising wont work well. BUT if it is something that people have to say "yo, you NEED to try this", then things could get interesting.
Re:Bing: Microsoft Prepares For War With A Revamped Search E... by stcredzero on Thursday May 28, 2009 @03:22PM (#630870)
With something like this, you don't want to overtly advertise. You want word of mouth to develop. I think the advertisement will sometimes work against them. I know I'm wary of ads for search -- most things advertised for search have been a disappointment to me.