Bing Reference - Wikipedia and Freebase

[David Gerard-2]

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsofts-Bing-Adds-Reference-Page-634550/
http://www.bing.com/reference

Bing is attempting to differentiate itself with a nicer "reference"
page. Wikipedia quote at the top. (We're famous enough now that I
could say "of course.")

The search up top says "Search Wikipedia". The thing that caught my
eye in the article (and the results) was it actually searches Freebase
as well!

I think Freebase is rather underappreciated, particularly amongst us
encyclopedia nerds ... it's sorta at a Wikipedia 2003/4 stage of
development. So it's nice to see Microsoft giving them some attention.


- d.

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[geni]

2009/10/8 David Gerard <dgerard@...>:

> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsofts-Bing-Adds-Reference-Page-634550/
> http://www.bing.com/reference
>
> Bing is attempting to differentiate itself with a nicer "reference"
> page. Wikipedia quote at the top. (We're famous enough now that I
> could say "of course.")
>
> The search up top says "Search Wikipedia". The thing that caught my
> eye in the article (and the results) was it actually searches Freebase
> as well!

Unfortunately best I can tell their version of enhanced wikipedia is
basically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popups



--
geni

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[phoebe ayers-3]

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 3:17 PM, geni <geniice@...> wrote:

> 2009/10/8 David Gerard <dgerard@...>:
>> http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Search-Engines/Microsofts-Bing-Adds-Reference-Page-634550/
>> http://www.bing.com/reference
>>
>> Bing is attempting to differentiate itself with a nicer "reference"
>> page. Wikipedia quote at the top. (We're famous enough now that I
>> could say "of course.")
>>
>> The search up top says "Search Wikipedia". The thing that caught my
>> eye in the article (and the results) was it actually searches Freebase
>> as well!
>
> Unfortunately best I can tell their version of enhanced wikipedia is
> basically http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Popups

Plus some of the new Babaco features (outline of sections on the right side) :)

(which is, to be fair, is something I *really* like -- try it out via
preferences -> editing -> experimental features).

-- phoebe

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