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Moj review za neke druge potrebe, na engleskom, nhf

UI

Goods:

* Homepage is visually appealing (background pictures are great)

* Sidebar menu is easy to use and understand

* Whole design is clear, UI elements are easily distinguishable and easy to use

Bads:

* Several elements are not translated to Serbian

* Result list is a copy-paste of Google

* There is no "Advanced search" link on the home page

* Image search result list is .. awkward. Hard to manipulate the results.

Overall Impression: Nothing new here. Live also had a neat design. No revolutionary UI elements. Same old stuff in a new package. Pictures are nice though.

Functionality

Goods:

* Search is fast

* Results are relevant and usable, for a change.

* Easily apply basic filters for search

* Bing handles diacriticals and grammar cases rather well.

Bads:

* Total fail on local search field. Seems like there are no Serbian results.

* Advanced search lacks several important filter, such as date.

* It appears that Bing suffers from result freshness issues.

Overall Impression: While global search results are OK, local search fails completely. One would expect from a high-profile player such as Microsoft to offer something new and different in search process. That didn't happen.

Final verdict: Just another search engine. No innovation at all, lots of Google copy-paste. No new approaches, no new UI elements, functionalities, Nothing worth raising an eyebrow. Personally, I see no situations where I would swap Google with Bing search. Same old boring stuff. While copying Google, Microsoft offered almost nothing that Google could copy. Live got upgraded, but no big leaps here. It might be good for the market though to have someone at least following Google in this field.

The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

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