Microsoft finally has added draggable routes to their Bing Maps service. ‘Bout time guys since Google has had it for over 2 years. That said I’ve been using Bing Maps more lately because I don’t trust the Google Maps layers (great API, horrible data).
Is anyone going to host a Bing Maps Party?
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You can’t blame me for this one… The newer data was partly me though
Although I hate to see anyone else lose their job I sure hope the dolt responsible for that heinous M$ video got the boot last week.
Horrible data? What? What’s so bad about it?
You know, the Report A Problem feature works pretty well. Read about my experience here: http://www.stevevance.net/planning/2009/11/google-maps-the-dynamic-gis-system/
At PDC 2009 one of the Microsoft Bing Map reps told me the AJAX API for Bing Maps would also soon include this feature for programmers to use the draggable routes as right now this feature is only on the consumer website at Bing.com/maps. So that’s great news for developers!
i am using both Bing and Google and i think both search engines give relevant search results. i would still prefer Google though, because it gives a little bit more relevant search results than Bing.
BING search engine is just as good as Google. In my own personal experience, Google does give more releveant search result than Bing but the difference is very small. **
i am a user of Microsofts BING search engine and it is as good as google search. for searching blogs, i think google gives more relevant search results compared bing.
i think that Bing is not as good as Google. Google would still index new websites faster than Bing. Microsoft would still need a lot of catching to do with GoogleBot.
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