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Comment by haberman | Hacker News Reader

It's funny, I've noticed myself using the links in the "cluttered left rail" an awful lot lately. Particularly the "past month" / "past year" links; for so much tech stuff anything over a year old is just not useful. It pertains to previous versions of software/hardware, or to services that have changed their feature set in the meantime.

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A couple questions:

1) Do you click the sponsored links in search results? 2) Do you run adblock?

Maybe you and I (and anyone else reading this board) are not the target market for Bing. I don't watch Wheel of Fortune either, but that seems to have a strong market.

The less links/buttons on a page to confuse my mother the more likely I'll send her to that page. As long as she can easily find what she is looking for (and is less likely to install another browser toolbar)

Here are some searches that worked perfectly fine for me in Bing and didn't need any sidebar filters:

http://www.bing.com/search?q=celtics+score (shows the box score)

http://www.bing.com/search?q=newton%2C+ma+taxi (same map/list of taxi companies as google)

http://www.bing.com/search?q=who+won+american+idol (I think Bing has better results than Google for this)

http://www.bing.com/search?q=movie+times (fandango outranked Bing's list of movies, while Google puts their list ahead of all search results)

I use it as well but I think it's a bit of a crutch for the search algorithm. The search algorithm should weigh age when ranking items in a domain where information ages quickly.

I agree. I have been using the filters a ton, for images as well. Cleaner design doesn't exactly mean better, the filters are conventient as hell.

I know some people like to hate on googles personalized search results too, but to me they are pretty much perfect.

I use it all the time. I'm almost always interested only in stuff written over the past year or month. I even wish Google made the default results the ones over the "past year". But I guess they think that will hurt relevancy.

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