Bing continues to grow in the US with January's numbers looking green

[timmah]

dallas said:

 

The glaring, high def, sharp contrast, way in your face picture. So the first thing that happens to me when visiting this site is that I get distracted by some dumb picture of what looks to either be pebbles or some kind of yeast infection growing in the damp places of an old stripper in Atlantic city as seen through a microscope.

It's so distracting that I didn't even notice the search bar, which is hidden off to a corner. It's like they don't want the search bar to detract from the picture. I guess they don't need me to see their product, just the shiny obnoxious rapper.

Why would Microsoft want to scare people away just by going to the website?

Sometimes a search on Bing can prove very fruitful. Apparently they've cataloged teh pr0nz in a way that blows Google Video out of the water. So that's one redeeming aspect but it doesn't make up for the stupidity of there page layout.

You'd think a multimillion dollar corporation would have thought this through by now.

Every day there's a new, colorful HD picture of something interesting. If you mouse over it, there are small boxes that present interesting info related to the image, as well as search results. There are also trending searches at the bottom, as well as controls to flip through HD images & animated backgrounds (all of which have interesting bits of info embedded). It's actually pretty interesting from time to time.