On second thoughts, I think they are cached. Zooming in shows that the resolution is much lower than the original video and considering the speed they load it must be a lot smaller. Neat!

I don’t find it clunky at all. The html output is really clean and solid, in comparison to Google who relies completely on in-line code. It makes Bing able to manage all those functions really efficiently for the browser. It also outputs the core result first, then loads additional items via ajax scripts and does it flawlessly. They even compress the code on-the-fly, which is probably the reason for the high speed.

Hadn’t seen the video preview. It’s quite a nice touch. I think they just stream the original video source. Doubt they would have cached them all. Could be wrong though.

Have been looking at Wolfram Alpha as well, but it’s for a completely different purpose. It will never replace quick and easy everyday searches, which forms the bulk of the traffic in Google and Windows Live Search/Bing.

It’s a great ezine, theres always something good to read or download.

Bing is heavy on scripts (little functions), which is why it is less clunkier than it should be and its hardly coding – except for maybe the preview video….I’m still trying to figure out what they used for that. But overall I think its quite nice and a good alternative.
It’s definitely going to attract people who are looking for results and not web pages.

If you like Bing, then I suggest you search for Wolfram alpha … now that’s something.

George Bush is Shakespeare compared to the Maltastar writers.

No, it was “the internets”.

I discovered (the) Lifehacker only a few weeks ago and It’s already an invaluable source of some daily escapism.

(The) Bing looks pretty interesting. Coding-wise it’s far ahead of (the) Google already, but I think it suffers from the stamp of its lowly origin in the form of (the) Windows (the) Live Search.

Not one mention of Live Search, the search engine it replaced.

Then again, what do you expect from The Maltastar?

This is what a real article on technology looks like, guys: http://lifehacker.com/5273715/bing-goes-liveheres-what-you-can-do-with-it