OT: BING!

[Michael Butash]

I got a kick out of reading this today:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/01/bing_hits_uk/

Apparently the best thing about bing! is the fact the index and present
internet porn quite nicely.  Steve Ballmer must be quite proud of their
lackluster google wannabe, at least he knows what people want.

-mb
 

On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 08:48 -0700, Gerald Thurman wrote:
> >From AllThingsD.com:  Just like GNU is not Unix... Bing is not
> Google?
> 
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 8:40 AM, James Finstrom
> <jfinstrom at rhinoequipment.com> wrote:
>         Hey All,
>         
>         I wanted to be a good unbiased party and try out bing. I tried
>         really hard to find something I liked and well I either didn't
>         try hard enough or maybe I am just not skilled enough to make
>         it do it's magic. Anyhow I just thought I would share my
>         opinion on Microsoft's new "google Killer." It sort of reminds
>         me of those cable vs satellite commercials where the marketing
>         folks are around the table and they say I know we will just
>         play the volume louder and that will make it better...
>         Basically Microsoft's approach is to "out google" google.
>         When you do a search you see sponsored text based ads on the
>         top and right then your results. Over all I was un-impressed
>         if I want to use something "like google" I will simply use
>         google. 
>         
>         James Finstrom
>         
>         
>         
>         
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