Microsoft "Bing" will it pwn google? Or is it a case of "all aboard the fail train"?

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May 31st, 2009, 12:49 PM
t34b4g5

Microsoft "Bing" will it pwn google? Or is it a case of "all aboard the fail train"?

Will Bing bring Microsoft search supremacy?

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Steve Ballmer is set to shortly announce “Bing”, its new Google-killing search engine with such amazing search simplicity and satisfaction that we will all be truly stunned. But will Bing just bring useless search bling, or will it be the real search thing – and does the Bing logo look just like that from British Paints?!?

http://www.bing.com/ComingSoon

So just curious to know what everyone thinks about this whole "Bing" hype that seems to be doing the rounds?
May 31st, 2009, 03:15 PM
ByTeWrangler

I have this urge to answer but i can't decide.. i really don't think we can answer before they come out with it.. i mean Google has shown how a comapny can actually lead in what it does - "market leader" .. There are still so many alternatives to OS (where microsoft is a leader) but When it comes to online search .. i don't think anyone even comes close to google.. Only company that I thought gave a good fight to google with the available resources to them was Yahoo!. Mircrosoft NEVER reached close to google or yahoo!.. I mean they can't even search their own site that well !

My urge is to say NO. The kind of effort that google puts into Search technology, no one does. Plus Google puts the efforts in the right direction..

You know what.. i'm going to click NO .. :p
May 31st, 2009, 03:16 PM
The-Spec

http://www.google-watch.org/
May 31st, 2009, 03:29 PM
The-Spec

Google is good at this.. (*navigates his mouse towards an ad*)

Look mommy, I made a company waste 1¢ on thin air!
May 31st, 2009, 04:13 PM
Cheap Scotch Ron

I agree with BTW. Wait and see. However, based on their (MS) track record, I'm not holding my breath. That said, there is huge room for improvement in the search engine market.

If I had to wager, I say it will be a bust.
May 31st, 2009, 04:27 PM
Negative

I'm having too much fun with Wolfram Alpha to be testing out a new search engine :D
May 31st, 2009, 04:34 PM
Cheap Scotch Ron

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Wolfram Alpha

Yeah, that's pretty cool and entertaining. Especially the math. I forgot how much multi variable calc I forgot. ;)
May 31st, 2009, 05:00 PM
The-Spec

If you guys actually wanted to mess with google then you'd help people like me screw with their search results and flood their notifications with nonexistent problems.
June 1st, 2009, 12:18 AM
nihil

British Paints?...............a brand totally unknown in the entire British Isles?

http://www.britishpaints.com.au/

Ah!................I see...............the Australians are re-applying for full membership so that we can dominate cricket and rugby once again :lildevil:

Then with our cyclists and their swimmers..............................:eek:

Actually their website is rather kewl.............. just run your mouse over the blue squares......................

On a more serious note, it is strange to have this MS product hyped as a "Google killer".

I would have thought that by now M$ would be well aware of the powers that a near monopolistic market share give a corporation.

Hell's teeth! you can even get away with Windows Millennium Edition and Vista? :D

As this appears to be some sort of Wall Street scam, all I can say is:

Sentiment: Strong Apathy
June 1st, 2009, 03:49 AM
t34b4g5

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Originally Posted by nihil

Ah!................I see...............the Australians are re-applying for full membership so that we can dominate cricket and rugby once again :lildevil:

Then with our cyclists and their swimmers..............................:eek:

Honest Governor' don't know what ja'h talking bout... ;)
June 2nd, 2009, 03:17 AM
Cheap Scotch Ron

bing=bust

I've spent the past hour or so putting bing through it's paces.
bing is a bust.
window dressing.

Spec, deface away!

Crew, grab me a rum and tonic and steady as she goes.... aaarrrggggh!
June 3rd, 2009, 05:31 PM
SirDice

It seems Bing pops up small images of porn vids when searching...

The moralists are outraged of course.. So it looks like I'm going to be using bing :lildevil:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,524019,00.html
June 3rd, 2009, 06:19 PM
ByTeWrangler

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Spec, deface away!

Crew, grab me a rum and tonic and steady as she goes.... aaarrrggggh!

MWHWHWHAHWHAHWHAHWHAHAHHWWHAWHHAHWHH

:D :D :D :D

GoO MiCROSoFT
June 4th, 2009, 01:33 AM
t34b4g5

Bing Can give me the phree Pr0n! YIPPEEEE

Greetz.

Just spotted this article while drinking my morning cup of Coffee.

Microsoft's Bing under fire for porn video access

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Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, has caused controversy by allowing users to see porn videos without leaving the site, once safety controls are turned off.

Now this is excellent news for all “Pr0n” fans around the globe. Raise those tissues and let’s celebrate. :D

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The site became available to users in Britain today, two days ahead of its official roll out date on June 3. One of its defining features is the functionality which enables it to auto-play videos in search results, when users hover the mouse above the stills. By typing in words with sexual connotations, once the safety search setting is off, Bing users can access porn films and other similarly explicit material, within the site. Other search engines, such as Google, do not play the videos within their sites, but provide links to external sites.
Upon this realisation, high profile technology bloggers, such as Loic Le Meur, pointed out the feature, prompting Microsoft to issue instructions via Twitter on how to turn on content filtering functionality for the search engine.
The ‘safe search’ is on by default, however anyone can turn it off with two clicks and no age verification.
Last week Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’schief executive unveiled Bing at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego, as a replacement for its current search engine, Live Search.
The new search engine aims to better understand what users are looking for, and therefore displays fewer results in certain circumstances. A search for the website Facebook, for instance, would bring up just one result linking to the site itself, with the option of displaying further results about the site.

Original Article
June 4th, 2009, 08:25 AM
ByTeWrangler

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"Nowadays, security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally. I dare anybody to do that once a month on the Windows machine." - Bill Gates

Microsoft has always been ahead of the game.. :p
June 4th, 2009, 09:04 AM
The-Spec

Um, sort of true, it's really rare to see an exploit do anything except gain read access to files these days. It's largely because Vista finally instilled the idea of using guest accounts and dumbed things down even further with UAC.

Bing is cool. Things are more relevant to what you're searching for. It has alot of those old searches that google ended up blocking due to worms.
June 4th, 2009, 09:30 AM
ByTeWrangler

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It has alot of those old searches that google ended up blocking due to worms.

thats why you said bing is cool.. :p
June 4th, 2009, 10:34 AM
t34b4g5

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Originally Posted by ByTeWrangler

thats why you said bing is cool.. :p

But the question remain, will we or will we not start seeing more "hello kitt'ah.gif" appearing..:D