Microsoft Bing Search 17+

I love how everything you need is available quickly when you open the app.

The interface is well designed. For example, the first thing that you see when you open the app is a search bar, slightly above it is the weather and slightly below it is current news stories. A collection of useful links are available if you click on the bottom right when you open the app. Everything has worked very responsively.

I have not used it extensively yet but it has potential to become my primary search app.

I’ve always preferred Bing over any other search engine for it’s simple and elegant home page. Not only is it completely junked up with news and suggested content and ads, it lags so badly that it’s virtually impossible to browse any website. Scrolling freezes completely or is just so slow to load it moves in small chunks as I swipe over and over trying to get it to move.

Typing into the search bar on the home page also lags behind and freezes, and it’s even worse when I try to type into a search bar on a website. The keyboard takes a long time to pop up when I click in a search bar and I can type several words before a single letter appears. Sometimes it catches up, most of the time only the first few letters typed appear.

I’ve thought it was my phone all week so have been restarting constantly…until I finally tried Google and it ran perfectly.

And, about all of the completely irrelevant news…if I want to read the news I go to an actual news site so I see relevant and important content instead of reality tv news and what celebrities are wearing or had for lunch that day from gossip sites full of misspelled words. Ugh.

Super disappointed in the update and will use another browser from now on.

Bing was a great search engine that I liked b/c it did not take up much space on my phone. Unfortunately, the recent update just didn’t work out for me. The tabs I would go back to to continue previous searches no longer preview what I was searching. Inconvenient b/c I would have to go through several tabs to find the right one. The worst offense of this latest update is the fact that the Find On Page feature went away. This feature is awesome because it lets me go directly to the verbiage I am looking for in any search result. It allowed me to skim an article efficiently instead of reading the whole thing only to realize it didn’t have the info I was looking for. In this fast-paced world, Bing isn’t the search engine for me if it’s not efficient.