Windows Live Local - now Bing

[#1]

Has anyone else noticed that clicking on a Windows Live Local link http://local.live.com/ now brings up http://www.bing.com/maps/ and the search is rubbish.
I tried searching for my village and it didn't even come up as an option whereas the previous version had no problems and neither does Multimap which also uses Bing

[#2]

[me=adiewoo]coughs[/me]
http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,76788.0.html

[#3]

jim coughs back - not the same at all
it used to work great now it doesn't
A search for Holt, Dorset comes up with Holt near  Worcester
A search for Holt, UK comes up with the above plus one near Bradford on Avon and one near Chester.
The worst part is  the search window which shows this - flaming useless whereas multimap comes up with the second picture

[#4]

Many apologies, but Bing seems poor whatever you try to use it for.
Maybe they should have called it Sing

[#5]

Naah - bling - all show and no substance 

[#6]

Yep sounds about right