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Barnes · 06-10-2010, 04:30 PM

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Originally Posted by stampsx2

No that's not till I post 250 posts in the same thread.

Ok Photon in Gmail you are right. Does have ads theres no question along the right side but only when you open an email. Maps, I found one tiny one in the bottom corner. Definitely not intrusive at all.

Ads are limited and google is free. Microsoft would have never come up with that.

Ads on Bing and Google work the exact same way. I have no idea what you are looking at.

Are you sure you are not using Lycos?

Phaneuf3 · 06-10-2010, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Shazam

Can you spot the ads?

Nope, don't see any. Try doing an image search instead...

Shazam · 06-10-2010, 04:36 PM

Hmm, a mod thanked that post, so it should be okay for me to post the image search results with Safe Search off

opendoor · 06-10-2010, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Shazam

Can you spot the ads?

I've been using Adblock Plus on my computers for so long I honestly forgot that Google had such annoying ads on their search results.

I don't know why anyone willingly submits themselves to online advertising. The only exceptions I make for the filter are for small sites I like that use ad revenue to keep running.

Flames0910 · 06-10-2010, 04:40 PM

oooh.

maps on bing are nice.

you know, there are at least two of us in this thread who never would have found out about bing maps being better if it weren't for google messing with backgrounds.

the whole thing kind of reminds me of buzz...springing it on people who didn't want it.

photon · 06-10-2010, 05:30 PM

Yeah maps on Bing are nice, and they have some pretty amazing stuff they've done too, there's a TED talk about Microsoft and maps and streetview and stuff.

And actually I intentionally leave the commercial ads on Google search, I find them very useful sometimes.. if I'm trying to find a company or service and my search is actually filled with garbage search spam but the ads actually go right to good solutions

Bill Bumface · 06-10-2010, 05:31 PM

Wow those bing photos are out of date. I really like the birds eye, especially the fact you can rotate it, but the amount of zoom I could get left me wanting more.

Art Vandelay · 06-10-2010, 07:51 PM

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Originally Posted by hulkrogan

Wow those bing photos are out of date. I really like the birds eye, especially the fact you can rotate it, but the amount of zoom I could get left me wanting more.

The Bing Bird's Eye images that I looked at are 3 years old!

SebC · 06-10-2010, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by FanIn80

I think the real story in all of this, is that Google felt compelled to duplicate something Bing offers.

The only thing that does is help to legitimize Bing.

To me this is exactly like when MS tried to Macify Windows and we got Vista.

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Originally Posted by llama64

People still use the main Google search page?

I use the address bar and the search box in my browser.

Good thing there's CP, or you'd have missed Pacman.

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Originally Posted by hulkrogan

Wow those bing photos are out of date. I really like the birds eye, especially the fact you can rotate it, but the amount of zoom I could get left me wanting more.

Reminds me of my camera... whoever no amount of zoom can change that.

FanIn80 · 06-10-2010, 08:30 PM

Admittedly, the most of the photos are out of date, and you can't zoom all the way into street level in bird's eye... but I still really like that view. It would be nice if Google added that to their maps.

...or if MS actually got serious about Bing.

Edit: And for the love of Woz... would somebody at MS please hire a design artist that wasn't a member of the Chess Club in high school?

dobbles · 06-11-2010, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Art Vandelay

The Bing Bird's Eye images that I looked at are 3 years old!

I know it obviously differs for just about everywhere, but i have found the default view for my area (looking with the north at the top of the screen) is under a year old. when i do the rotating those images are quite a bit older, but for the default view it at least seems fairly current. or at least no more dated than the regular aerial views or even the street-view that google does. and actually, if google would ever finish our area, that would at least be some kind of competitor. but even though the QC area has 300k+ people, they have only just recently managed to do the major streets in the area.

Russic · 06-11-2010, 09:20 AM

The birds eye view would be great for a navigation app ... beyond that I don't see much redeeming about bing maps compared to google. Is there a killer feature I'm missing?

Barnes · 06-11-2010, 09:39 AM

Microsoft licenses the birds eye view images from Pictometry who take oblique aerial images for clients. It's not cheap to do. Free aerial photography at any vintage is amazing.

Bill Bumface · 06-11-2010, 11:01 AM

The angle is great, but it was pretty funny to look at the current site of the Bow and Eight Ave Place.

Apparently there was a big parkade in Bridgeland that is on my walk to the train... now it's just a big empty field. It's kind of like a mini time machine, and its cool to see how much things have changed in a few years.

Mike F · 06-11-2010, 03:39 PM

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Originally Posted by opendoor

I've been using Adblock Plus on my computers for so long I honestly forgot that Google had such annoying ads on their search results.

I don't know why anyone willingly submits themselves to online advertising. The only exceptions I make for the filter are for small sites I like that use ad revenue to keep running.

Intrusive, in you face ads like pop-ups and those noisy smiley emoticon ads are annoying, but in general, what is wrong with advertising?

All advertising is is someone trying to let you know what stuff is out there. Unless you're trying to make do without stuff, I'd think that being as aware as possible about the great variety of stuff available would be useful when choosing your stuff. And, in particular, targeted ads seem quite useful to me. I've got no problem with anonymously sharing my stuff preferences so that the advertisers can show me more stuff like the stuff I like and less or no stuff about the stuff I have no interest in or use for. Heck, I routinely see ads for whole categories of stuff that I didn't even know I was missing until I saw the stuff in the ad.

calumniate · 06-11-2010, 03:46 PM

I have to say these new google background images has affected me in a big way.

OilKiller · 06-13-2010, 01:44 PM

I simply use Google search from the top right hand corner of FireFox so I don't ever see a Google home page of any type. Why even go to the Google home page?

Ironhorse · 06-14-2010, 09:50 PM

FWIW, I'm getting the regular "old" Google page again, with an option to switch backgrounds at the bottom lefthand side.

I guess not too many people liked New Coke.

SebC · 06-15-2010, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by OilKiller

I simply use Google search from the top right hand corner of FireFox so I don't ever see a Google home page of any type. Why even go to the Google home page?

Pacman.

llama64 · 06-15-2010, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by SebC

Pacman.

I use google.ca/ig as my homepage. But I almost never type a search into the field on that page. It's just easier (or habit) to use the search bar in my browser (or even the address bar).

And for those of you who don't like your wife seeing "hot donkey love" in the search box: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14534/