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Top feedback summary for December 3
jraff
Although, the SE cannot be changed on the NTP (good thing Bing is so good) BUT... I can be changed to a preferred choice in the Address Bar. One can, also, make the Start-up page be whatever desired. Searching there rather than turning to the NTP and Bing, no matter how good it is.
Cheers,
Drew
- HotCakeXDec 05, 2019MVP
Drew1903 wrote:Although, the SE cannot be changed on the NTP (good thing Bing is so good)
Good thing Bing is so good?
Not in this world
it's so much behind Google
- DustinJDec 05, 2019Copper Contributor
HotCakeX wrote:
Good thing Bing is so good?
Not in this world
it's so much behind Google
That's a debatable topic. However what isn't debatable is that Microsoft has paid me nearly $200 in Amazon and Microsoft gift cards! I'm not ashamed, I can be bought.
HotCakeX wrote:I would want to set my own custom image as the background for NTP, not Bing images, also favorites folder need to have custom colors so user can set any color they want instead of all being yellow...
Custom folder colors would be amazing; however I would settle for just parity with the previous browsers. Walk before we run, etc.
I'm really not a fan of the new tab pages whatsoever - I never understood the need for them. Why should it look or act differently than the main tab page? Now it's just one more thing I have to configure, or troubleshoot why it doesn't look right. But yeah, if they're going to give us a "Custom" NTP option, really make custom and make it completely configurable, including the option to replicate the home page. And what ever happened to "about:blank"?
- HotCakeXDec 05, 2019MVPSpoiler
DustinJ wrote:HotCakeX wrote:
Good thing Bing is so good?
Not in this world
it's so much behind Google
That's a debatable topic. However what isn't debatable is that Microsoft has paid me nearly $200 in Amazon and Microsoft gift cards! I'm not ashamed, I can be bought.
HotCakeX wrote:I would want to set my own custom image as the background for NTP, not Bing images, also favorites folder need to have custom colors so user can set any color they want instead of all being yellow...
Custom folder colors would be amazing; however I would settle for just parity with the previous browsers. Walk before we run, etc.
I'm really not a fan of the new tab pages whatsoever - I never understood the need for them. Why should it look or act differently than the main tab page? Now it's just one more thing I have to configure, or troubleshoot why it doesn't look right. But yeah, if they're going to give us a "Custom" NTP option, really make custom and make it completely configurable, including the option to replicate the home page. And what ever happened to "about:blank"?
Bing sucks at non-English searches, their web crawler is so bad at it, also not all websites are indexed in there.
rewards points or the rewards themselves are also only good in US, for the other 200 countries, they are not that good, even in US there are more ways to earn points, these are the facts.
it's as if Microsoft doesn't want to attract more people and they are happy with serving only US citizens.
meanwhile, Google has spent so much on making their platform localized for a lot of languages and countries.
about favorites folder color, well if they decide to do it, then they better do it once and do it right, not postpone it for later times.
currently my NTP looks like this
no more messing around with distractions etc, now all i need is to set a custom background there.
that's the closest thing you can get to a blank new tab page 🙂
- jraffDec 05, 2019Brass ContributorIt's a shame because I and countless others love the look of the NTP, including the Bing News and Image of the day. I wish I could just search with Google and not lose all the NTP features. 😔
- Drew1903Dec 05, 2019Silver Contributor
jraff
Well, here is a sort of compromise. Use Bing.com as Start-up page & or Home page and make the/its Address Bar whatever SE you want. Just a thought... Same photo, nice top bar menu items & Feeds @ the bottom. Good customiseable Settings in the hamburger.
Cheers,
Drew- HotCakeXDec 05, 2019MVPSpoiler
Drew1903 wrote:Well, here is a sort of compromise. Use Bing.com as Start-up page & or Home page and make the/its Address Bar whatever SE you want.
Honestly the address bar should be like Firefox, allowing user to change search engine on the fly without the need to go to settings page or set Bing as homepage which is something that is unpleasant for non-US residents because Microsoft products always have more features for the US residents than people in the rest of the world.
it's like that in a wide variety of the Microsoft products.
- Graham-STMCDec 08, 2019Steel ContributorIf you 'love ... Bing News and the image of the day' (which both come from Bing and not Google) why don't you give Bing a proper try instead of believing Google is always better?
I have gradually shown most of my clients that they can find everything they want much more easily and quickly with a few clicks and searches on Bing, without having to trawl through all the pinned adverts associated with the same content on Google. Currently the Microsoft Points tally up quite nicely from every Bing Search too!- Drew1903Dec 08, 2019Silver Contributor
It's REALLY easy to prefer Bing. It's very impressive and offers a lot! And more cool things are coming to it all the time. It has many very helpful tools and abilities, indeed! And what it does it does well (and better) and in nice(r), appealing ways.
Cheers,
Drew