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Bing Maps & user intent

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Bing Maps is getting better and better for me. I just did a quick search for Taplow as I’m planning to meet a pal there next week for a quick pint. On searching for Taplow it took me right there and without prompting showed me the nearest stations and their distances from the town centre. Does Google Maps do the same I wondered? I moseyed on over there and the answer is no…in fact it took me a few more clicks to get to Taplow. Ratchet up another win for Bing.

top tip: you can get to Bing Maps by going to www.bingmaps.com – in fact, even quicker you can type BingMaps and hit Ctrl and Enter on your keyboard and IE will add the www and .com for you

Enjoy!

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  • Anonymous
    November 25, 2009
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    November 25, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    November 25, 2009
    It's a pity Microsoft have made the vast majority of the Multimap team whose work is made these features possible redundant.  Don't expect any updates or bug fixes anytime soon.

  • Anonymous
    November 25, 2009
    Steve, Bing still has a long, long way to go to catch up with Google Maps outside of the U.S. and the U.K. Take a look at Dublin, for example. The contrast is striking.

  • Anonymous
    November 28, 2009
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    November 29, 2009
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  • Anonymous
    December 01, 2009
    Bing Maps with "Silverlight" control has a small bug in the Print link when you add a "Stop" to your route (3 locations or more total) in which it will not link to the print window properly, instead it goes to a screen that says "Web Page Not Found" using the print link from IE still works, however it does not put all of the added options given with the Print link. Thanks in advance for reparing this bug, Phantom Zombi3