# Google’s Peter Norvig Offers Kind Words for Bing, Exploratory Search

> Great post from our commenter-in-chief Jeremy Pickens on his own blog, Information Retrieval Gupf, about comments from Google Director of Research Peter Norvig at a recent semantic technology search panel (at the same Semantic Technology Conference where the New York…
> URL: https://www.smartdatacollective.com/19699/
> Last modified: 2009-06-19T19:23:05+00:00

Great [post](http://irgupf.com/2009/06/19/semantic-technology-search-panel/) from our commenter-in-chief Jeremy Pickens on his own blog, [Information Retrieval Gupf](http://irgupf.com/), about comments from Google Director of Research [Peter Norvig](http://norvig.com/) at a recent semantic technology search panel (at the same Semantic Technology Conference where the New York Times [announced](http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/nytimes_linked_data.php) that it will be publishing its index as [Linked Data](http://linkeddata.org/)).

Asked what he thought of Bing, Norvig answered (in Jeremy’s paraphrase):

Norvig’s first answer to the Bing question was to say that he likes the idea of innovation in the user interface. He thinks that there is a lot of room for more such innovation, and for a lot of different reasons.  Historically, there has been too much emphasis on getting the ranking right, at the expense of all else.  Of course (he added) a quality ranking is something that you absolutely must have.  But for too long it has been the *only* thing that has been worked on, and that needs to change.  He thinks Bing has made some good steps, and that there are a lot more that can be made as well.

Great stuff! Read the rest over at [IR Gupf](http://irgupf.com/2009/06/19/semantic-technology-search-panel/).

		
							
					
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