Microsoft Considering Making Bing Search Engine Open Source

[GoodBytes]

Microsoft is of a big change of direction under the new CEO, Satya Nadella, Microsoft presented their love to Linux, by offering Linux with complete enterprise level support to their Azure platform, which is gaining great popularity at a high pace due to the support Microsoft offers, including the performance and flexibility it provides. Later, Microsoft announced .NET running not only on MacOS and Linux, but also made .NET open source, a smart move which will greatly boost C# popularity. A language already open source, but due to it's limitations without .NET, not very useful. This will soon change.

And Now, Microsoft rumors suggest that Microsoft is considering making the back end of Bing search engine open source. This is a big killer move to Google, as it won't allow others to improve the search engine, but also make sure it is secure and private, and also, it could attract more users which will make the search engine better as more searches are made. Google is good, because it was in the works, improved, and massively used to better fetch intended results, Bing is still new compared to Google, and has a lot to learn.

In addition, Microsoft has nothing to loose, as the search engine isn't a success.

Source: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-considering-open-sourcing-parts-of-bing-backend-tech

[Sidiox]

As much as I like the look of Bing, its search algorithm is just worse than Google's, I never get good results on it

[AlexGoesHigh]

omfg please do it, also i would use bing if it wasn't by the tiny issue it has that show different result based on regions, i don't like that at all, its annoying and stupid

[suicidalfranco]

Open source c# --> thumbs up

Open source bing --> already happy with duckduckgo

Seriously I need open source c#, Java is too much of a pain in the ass for a universal object oriented programming language

[qwertywarrior]

new CEO +1

[StingBull]

As much as I like the look of Bing, its search algorithm is just worse than Google's, I never get good results on it

 

Seriously, I want them to explain to me how the hell does searching for my school and department on Bing leads to several porn sites with safe search on.

[Kherm]

new CEO +1

More like New CEO +100

[Trik'Stari]

I really wish I could get rid of the bing button on my W8 phone.

 

Seriously, I want them to explain to me how the hell does searching for my school and department on Bing leads to several porn sites with safe search on.

 

Perhaps those department heads are freaking porn stars? If they're hot I wanna go to that school....

[terrytek]

They should, so I can fuck it up as badly as possible so Microsoft loses money on it and they are forced to give up Bing, for good.

[AlwaysFSX]

No guys this is great, you can just have it redirect your search to Google!

[terrytek]

No guys this is great, you can just have it redirect your search to Google!

Or this. Either fuck it up very badly or just redirect it to Google.

[Thorium19]

They should first allow people to change the search button search engine on WP8, then I'd be happier, as I'm stuck using bing which when something is mistyped comes back with the most obscure and far fetched results. But when it's typed in accurately, it's just as good as google, sometimes beating it with the little extras like suggestions of alternatives etc.

[terrytek]

They should first allow people to change the search button search engine on WP8, then I'd be happier, as I'm stuck using bing which when something is mistyped comes back with the most obscure and far fetched results. But when it's typed in accurately, it's just as good as google, sometimes beating it with the little extras like suggestions of alternatives etc.

Bing would never beat Google. EVER.

[Trik'Stari]

Bing would never beat Google. EVER.

Bing can't even beat yahoo or askjeeves

 

Hell, I'd us an encyclopedia before using bing

[SuperfastJellyfish]

Honestly, who really cares? This is not a 'killer move'.

[Syntaxvgm]

We already know the basic algorithm

 

function bingSearch(query){     results = google(query);     bingResults = scramble(results);     bingResults = bingResults + tacoPictures;     return bingResults;}

[Techhog]

Open source porn search engine FTW!

[zacRupnow]

Bing results = ads and porn

[Sharp_3yE]

I like Bing. Bing does some things better then google. Bing maps respond better then Google's for me at least but google maps have more stuff.

I use Bing and google. I use Bing and google on my windows phone as well. I really like bing's layout and they have a really good video section and google kinda copied how Bing did their image search layout.

The problem with Bing is that for more complicated searches it just doesn't work as well as Google's web search. I get more up to date relevant web search items then Bing.

If Bing's web search greatly improved then id use only Bing but Google's web search engine is simply better. I do like Bing's layout better.

[martinrox1568]

Seriously, I want them to explain to me how the hell does searching for my school and department on Bing leads to several porn sites with safe search on.

please tell me the name of your school. 

[Syntaxvgm]

please tell me the name of your school.

A local school in my area was the Trojans for a mascot.

[euniqe]

 

I really wish I could get rid of the bing button on my W8 phone.

 

 

fucking this. 

 

but won't making it open source inevitably make it better? I mean when you've hit bedrock, you can only go up.. 

[Trik'Stari]

fucking this. 

 

but won't making it open source inevitably make it better? I mean when you've hit bedrock, you can only go up.. 

Doesn't mean anyone will actually use it...

[ForsakenLive]

Bing does make better searches if you know what's actually doing, I worked on several art projects and Bing was the only search engine that I could use to found the right material.

Once you know how the API works then it can become a great tool for when you need something specific. Is it better than Google? Depends on what you are doing, Google is superior and easier to use most of the times, but has its limitations and fails to land accurate results on some case scenarios; that's when you can take advantage of search engines like Bing.

Some possibilities with Bing are the ability to also consider punctuation as part of the word, to ban a search with X topic, to allow only one file type the website leads to etc. For example if you want information about a Smarthphone but you don't want it to be about Apple, just type 'smartphone NOT iphone' (without the ' ' ) on Bing.

 

Information about the Bing API basics: http://www.bing.com/developers/s/APIBasics.html

Bing dev center: http://www.bing.com/dev/en-us/dev-center

 

Bing's tool are actually powerful and useful, pretty much made by it's developers to help them with their needs, but also to help the user on the same way.

While Google and even DuckDuckGo can get really deep the web to bring you what you might be looking for, Bing can indeed provide more functionality, and having it Opensource means it's going to be good for all consumers.

Don't be such a close minded crowd with products or services you don't like using! because you can miss on good stuff, it happens the same when someone chooses only Corsair products for example, they are great but fanboysm just limits us.

[ZeroBreaker]

Bing is fine. Slightly worse than google for some results, but when pretty much forced to use it at college, it gave far better, if far less, image results.

 

For what it is, bing is pretty damn impressive. Remember that Microsoft's core business in no way revolves around bing at all, whereas google relies on their search and invest massively into their algorithm.

 

I wouldn't use it over google simply due to my university email using gmail, but if I was again forced to use it it wouldn't really affect me day-to-day.

 

I miss iGoogle. If someone was to take this code and implement something similar, or even just emulate the pages from the days of yore, I would be a very happy man.

 

Don't see how this is a bad thing.