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Bing Map: Build Your Powerful Map

deerawan — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 02:45:11 +0000

Bing, the famous microsoft’s search engine, has launched its map services. They try to follow the successful Google Map innovation. You can open Bing map from this url http://www.bing.com/maps/. In my first time visit this map, I think the map’s interface looks so clean and even better than Google Map. The zoom slider and pan panel are more elegant than Google has. Bing also provide us options to explore more its map functionalities by installing silverlight in our browser. You will get benefits such as

Plan and share multistep itineraries with restaurants, activities, and directions.

Navigate streets at eye level in streetside view.

Experience beautiful photographic scenes with Photosynth.

Make new discoveries with map apps.

Bing Map

But if you are a Google Chrome fans, Silverlight doesn’t support for this browser. For this case, I have to use my Firefox to run again Bing map and then install Silverlight inside it. Anyway, you can see that Bing also gives us a service similar to Google Streetview called StreetSide. StreetSide currently only supports for United States area only.

If you want to feel more better experience using map from Google and Bing, our friend Jonasson has made a website to see Google Map and Bing Map side by side. It is very awesome. You can visit his website http://www.jonasson.org/maps/

Bingle : Bing and Google

deerawan — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:19:16 +0000

Two most famous search engines now in one page. It is Bingle. By visiting this site, you can get two searching results one from Bing and one from Google.

Bingle - Main Page

Bingle - Search Result

Enjoy!

Bing, Another Great Search Engine

deerawan — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:41:01 +0000

After sticking with Microsoft Live Search, Microsoft has launched its new innovation search engine called Bing. The name is not really popular but it will be well-known for sure. I have been playing with Bing for about two days and it is time for me to review the functionalities comparing to Google. I’ll try it by inserting some keywords. (click the title to go to bing with related keyword and click image to see the larger version)

1. Barbie
You must know it, mustn’t you? Very famous doll. The images of Barbie is also displayed and at left sidebar you can also see related search list

bing - barbie

2. Reog (images)
Reog is famous dance from Ponorogo, Indonesia. You can see thumbnail larger and information about website and size of image if you hover over the image. Some options are also available in left sidebar such as size, layout, color, style, and people. You can play with it to get more specific images result.

bing - reog

3. Bali (videos)

One of beautiful island and the most favorite destination of Indonesia tourism. Let we see if there are some videos about Bali. You can play the video by hovering over it.

bing - bali video

For video searching, I have to change my country from Indonesia to United States because there is no videos searching option for Indonesia Setting.

4. Bali (maps)

You can also see map location of a place. I tried Bali as my keyword and I got this from Bing

bing - bali map

Conclusion
Bing looks so promising as a new search engine. Have great and innovative features. It is much much better than Live Search. However, doing head to head between Bing and Google, I will choose Google. It is still the market leader. I think Google team is really busy with Bing now.