Analytic Design Group

Should you ditch your favourite search engine and move over to Bing? Probably not - and here is why, from a user experience point of view.

The problem is that there is nothing in the Bing experience that makes me say "Yes! This is what was missing in Google Search." or "Wow, this is an awesome new way of presenting search results". Bing does not enhance my search experience. I do not see any value in using Bing over my current default, Google.

http://wave.google.com/

I have had the above link open in a tab in my browser for weeks. It was a reminder to watch the Google Wave demo. The demo is an hour and twenty minutes long, so finding that much time to watch is not easy. Also, the video starts with some pretty hefty promises about how “Google will surprise you” and “show you an unbelievable presentation of what’s possible in the browser.” I’ll admit I was quite skeptical and the thought of sitting through more than an hour of hype was not very tempting.

"I want to follow your witty thoughts ... just join Twitter!"

So nags my friend. They say brevity is the soul of wit. Wit does not often work well without context though. How well does Twitter incorporate context into its brevity-oriented space?