Bing (Preview) is live in the U.S. so I gave it my standard search test “kite boston.”It rewrote it as Kites in Boston,MA and returned a kite shop some 20 miles away as the top result. I don’t like that Bing rewrote the query in the input box;it’d be ok if it responded with “I thought you meant this and queried on it instead,”but left my text as it was.
Amusingly:
- The provided map of results moves obediently with you as you scroll down the page. I found that distracting,but perhaps I’ll get used to it.
- The map still says Microsoft Virtual Earth on it. (I just noticed that in the Google returns,the map is not logoed at all;it just includes copyright. Perhaps that’s a space consideration?)
