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Microsoft Rebrands Live Search As "Bing"
JacobSteelsmith writes "Microsoft is attempting to re-brand its Live Search, also known as Kumo. Bing, as it's known, is another attempt by Microsoft to lure consumers away from Internet search leaders such as Google. Microsoft has posted a quarterly loss in its online advertising business, compared to Google's sales, $4.7 billion in the first quarter. According to the Live Search blog, Bing goes 'beyond the traditional search engines to help you make faster, more informed decisions' by combining a 'great search engine' with organized results. It also adds unique tools to help the user make important decisions. It is being touted as a 'decision engine.'"
"Here, let me bing that for you."
Hmmmm... No.
starting to think. It's a great name, too bad the momentum has been lost.
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So what's the new branding going to be after this one fails? Bong?
Cherry site, Dude.
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This has Monty Python written all over it.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
in one sentence, you attempted to compare Microsoft's posting a loss on search with Google's 4.6B in 'sales'.
you're comparing apples and oranges, aren't you?
Bing goes 'beyond the traditional search engines to help you make faster, more informed decisions' by combining a 'great search engine' with organized results.
Organized Results as in "higher rating the more you pay us"?
The Long Now Foundation
Bing goes 'beyond the traditional search engines to help you make faster, more informed decisions' by combining a 'great search engine' with organized results.
They change the search engine's name in an effort to draw a crowd, then they fuck it up by weighing it down with language that's awful damn close to the infinitely-scalable enterprise class web 2.0 productivity enhancement solution corporatespeak that makes people roll their eyes.
I thought it was "bling" but the cool factor was lost on me.
So what's the new branding going to be after this one fails? Bong?
Actually it would be Bob...
Ned: "Guess who!"
Phil: "Ned? Ned Ryerson?"
Ned: "BING!"
MS should seriously just stop trying to "improve" search engines. Its not profitable, labels you as a "Google clone", and unless you have some pretty neat features that can beat Google and iGoogle, you won't end up capturing any marketshare. Sure, there are some things that you could do with searching, such as desktop searches that aren't painfully slow that require tons of indexing, perhaps using algorithms to "guess" where files are placed? All that would be better for MS, but instead they go into the already saturated market with yet another search engine, how many do they have now? MSN, Live, and now Bing? Seriously, stop trying to be Google, you aren't and unless you happen to be really really good at what you do (and from past experiences in trying to be Google you aren't good at it) you won't get any marketshare despite how many ads you run and how many OEMs you bribe to set as the default homepage.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.
Thanks Microsoft, but as I value my online privacy, I'll stick with Scroogle instead.
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." George Bernard Shaw
...because the video shows a big image/background at the top. That's great, but part of the other reason Google is the leader (other than the results it produces) is the fact the page is a no-nonsense zone - sure, you've got the Google logo, but other than that, the page consists nearly entirely of blank space, or text/links. No stupid pointless pictures, no needless button images. It's fast, and it works. Once 'Bing' gets up to capacity though, I reckon it'll be dog slow, because it has useless decor. The search engine isn't the destination: So why the pointless crap?
Bing! Fries are done! Hmm. Progress, but still no dice...
True, however:
... thank god for bing."
Developer One: "You know that hot girl I met at the bar last night?"
Developer Two: "Yeah?"
Developer One: "I bing'd her."
Developer Two: "No way! What did you find?"
Developer One: "Bing says she's categorized as head of a right wing conservative group that attracts females and funnels money into Karl Rove."
Developer Two: "Ohhh, dude that sucks, maybe next time?"
Developer One: "Yeah
My work here is dung.
"Bob, where's my bong?"
"Have you tried looking underneath your belt?"
"Not that bong, Bob. The other bong."
Could this BE any lamer a name?
Bob was first...now he's dead..and I dance around his grave.
I love the meetings that result in this kind of dumb naming. Someone goes through the trouble of creating really nice presentations, hyping up how he has this new ideas and then forces us to attend at 9am Monday morning. 30mins later the uncreative bastards forced to sit through it all agree how awesome it is but somewhere in their dull brains are going "he is serious with this crap?". It eventually gets marketed to world and nobody buys it, sigh.
did you forget to take your meds?
The name has been changed to protect the guilty.
"No matter where you go, there you are." -- Buckaroo Banzai
Bing Is Not Google
Microsoft wastes more time and effort on an Internet product almost no one will use. They really should just give up on trying to make money from the Internet. They just don't understand what people want.
If I were God, wouldn't I protect my churches from acts of me?
Yes, on a web site focused on FOSS the readership will now complain about the name selected by Microsoft for their search engine.
Some examples of the naming accumen of the FOSS crowd:
- Ogg Vorbis
- Gimp
- Apache
- IceWeasel
- Thunderbird
- X
- Gnome
- Prefacing thousands of KDE apps with K
- Gnu
- A thousand other recursive acronyms
- etc etc etc
My Noscript Firefox plugin seems to disable the entire functionality of 'Bing'..
Now if someone could please pass me the Bong 'cause I reckon it will help me make faster decisions than this shitty website..
Microsoft may have posted a quarterly loss, but comparing that with 4.7 billion dollars of gross revenue doesn't even make sense. Did Google make a profit on that 4.7 billion and how much? That's the important question, and none of the press releases linked here have an answer.
-mkb
It's been said that good marketers sell products, products don't sell themselves... but I think this is an exception to that rule. A product has to be able to sell itself to the minds of people taking a second look at something new. To me, name like "Bing" is... well, we'll say that it's about as inspired as a rock in a cave. Yes, there was Bing Crosby, but I always knew him as Crosby, Bing was hardly in my vocabulary. What I use and show others reflects on me and my businesses. I'm not going to print off a page off that engine, just so that I can get snarky comments about me trying to bring back the old shows. I'll stick with Google, TYVM.
There are no perfect answers, only the right questions. More questions at http://foresightandhindsight.blogspot.com/
But It's Not Google.
I guess M$ is tired of people saying "But it's not Microsoft" so they are turning the tables.
Maybe someday they will try turning the tables with better products.
HAHAHAHA.. like that would ever happen!
According to the Why Bing page:
The price predictor thing sound kinda cool (though pretty easy to clone).
But giving money back on "great products?" Is that like discounts on MS software, or some other silly gimmick? Smells faintly like desperation, that does. I guess we'll see.
...those who used to watch FRIENDS every Thursday night will get this joke. Others, you don't what fund you missed.
"Doing what i can, with what i have." ~ Burt Gummer
So what's the new branding going to be after this one fails? Bong?
Nah, I think it's going to be "Bang" so that sentences like this happen:
"I couldn't find the answer in my textbook so I Banged it."
My work here is dung.
Did you just disrespect the Bing? I would keep an eye out for Tony Soprano if I were you.
Microsoft has posted a quarterly loss in its online advertising business, compared to Google's sales, $4.7 billion in the first quarter.
br. Yeah, whoever wrote the summary screwed it up. Might as well compare Microsoft's loss to the cost of my auto insurance, or maybe the inflation rate of the cost of a handjob at Sapphire in Vegas over the past two years. That statistical comparison would be equally useless.
At first I'm tempted to dismiss this as nothing more than a renaming of Microsoft's current crappy search engine. (I mean who really uses it anyway?) But I think it would be a little hasty to totally ignore the sheer amount of cash Microsoft can dump into advertising. You tech guys out there should expect your circle of computer dummies to start asking "So what's this bing thing anyway?". I don't think they'll overthrow google anytime soon but I'm fairly sure they have a chance of taking a slice of their users.
I can say [REDACTED] anytime I want!
Yeah, I'd agree that those names are mostly worthless. Doesn't mean that Bing still wasn't a dumb choice of a name for the "new" Live Search.
You forgot 'Ubuntu'
I use google now just because it is what I am use to. The same argument that tends to be used for why people don't switch to windows. Heh.
https://www.speakservers.com/
So today we're introducing a new kind of search that goes beyond traditional search engines to help you make faster, more informed decisions. It will do this by combining a great search engine (with powerful new features to improve your results for any query), more organized results, and unique tools to help you make important decisions. We think of Bing as a Decision Engine.
Sooo, does this mean it will find the best pr0n that will still fit your hard drive and still satisfy?
Are we going to be surprised when the actual output of this search engine prove to be low quality?
Ned: Phil? Hey, Phil? Phil! Phil Connors? Phil Connors, I thought that was you!
Phil: Hi, how you doing? Thanks for watching.
[Starts to walk away]
Ned: Hey, hey! Now, don't you tell me you don't remember me because I sure as heckfire remember you.
Phil: Not a chance.
Ned: Ned... Ryerson. "Needlenose Ned"? "Ned the Head"? C'mon, buddy. Case Western High. Ned Ryerson: I did the whistling belly-button trick at the high school talent show? Bing! Ned Ryerson: got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn't graduate? Bing, again. Ned Ryerson: I dated your sister Mary Pat a couple times until you told me not to anymore? Well?
Phil: Ned Ryerson?
Ned: Bing!
Phil: Bing.
Good-bye
Q: I'm feeling lonely, down and out, what will make me feel better? Please help me decide.
A: Easy. Upgrade to Vista Ultimate, then Windows 7 ultimate. If that doesn't work buy a Zune, an X-Box 360, and a Surface. Bing-OOOO! Problem solved.
"Bing" huh, it reminds me of the sound of a ricochet and than makes me think that using Microsoft's search is going to return results that'll bounce you all over the place and most likely, only to MS partners. After all, the most effective ricochets are those in confined spaces. Maybe the internal name is really "Bing bing bing, bing, bing bing, bing." Followed by a bunch of "$" signs.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
I hope this new 'decision engine' wasn't consulted about its own name, otherwise it should be avoided given the quality of its decision-making.
What a joke. Begin with the proctological comments...
Scott
"Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid."
BING Is Not Google
GENERATION 25: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation.
Bing = Swedish slang for "Dumb"
I like one search thing like http://www.elookinto.com. Don't know if it will include the 'Chameleon' as a choice
"Chi so ha, bing do wa!"
Translation: I use Google.
I'm a little confused, but as best I can figure out:
Microsoft is developing a new search engine that will replace Live Search. The new engine was going to be called Kumo, but they've decided to call it Bing instead. It's still in development and not yet available to the public, but eventually it will be online at bing.com. Presumably, once Bing launches, live.com will redirect there. The search field on msn.com (which most IE users have set as their home page) will redirect there too.
Since the new engine isn't available to the public and most people weren't aware that it was going to be called Kumo, this rebranding is a complete non-story.
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<VOICE type="Chandler Bing">
Could this branding be any more lame?
</VOICE>
Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
No, but I predict people will start pronouncing it as "Bung". As in:
I went to google the answer, but this damn computer has the wrong search installed and my question went down the bung hole!
I love how the live desktop search tells you everything install chronologically after it is going to stop functioning if you remove the MS search. Well, maybe bung will finally let you find answers to technical issues half as well as google search - then MS might be able to bribe some more people to play with it's bung.
I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress -J Adams
"Biinnngg!" (with apologies to M. Python).
Or, Bing ... o! It is certainly true that your search results are a gamble when you use Microsoft search.
When will Ballmer and company stop throwing billions down this rathole and acknowledge that Google has soundly kicked their ass?
It's Linux, damnit! Pay no attention to renaming attempts by self-aggrandizing blowhards.
One of the examples in the video was searching for a flight/hotel/etc.. Is Bing trying to compete with existing travel sites? Can a general search/decision engine outperform a dedicated travel site? Is Bing going to be a threat to travel sites?
Who decides how the decision engine decides? How are the result categories created? Are there a lot of MS employees creating categories based on typical search queries? Will users be able to create or suggest categories?
Will there be Bing specific HTML tags that sites can use to suggest what categories their site should belong to?
Are they trying to be the Mac of search engines?
Are there technical details on how Bing works? It's still vaporware unless you're a MS employee. Google and Live Search do not appear to have any technical details (or my search-fu is lacking.)
Given the lack of details and the lack of a product, I'm not inclined to take this "decision engine" effort seriously.
It's just that (4) isn't clear.
Don't know if something http://elookinto.com will include 'Bing', the chameleon. Maybe not since it is not a 'search engine'.
So, Bob's cousin Bing is finally getting out into public? I'm sure they'll spend a lot of time together, wherever Bob is now... :-)
Really google serves all my needs pretty well and I can't imagine using anything else everyday. There is a new search engine called topsy.com and it seems pretty cool but it seems more directed towards tweets, blogs, forums, etc..
It's true no man is an island, but if you take a bunch of dead guys and tie 'em together, they make a good raft.
Good god the introductory video is annoying. 95% of it consists of an actual video recording a screen and looks horrible: why on earth didn't they use a screen-capturing program? The other 5% is made up of a woman frowning at said screen to tell the viewer what's bad about all other search engines.
The page design is strange; no overt MS branding anywhere. It's almost as if they don't want you to know...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_XNA
This is how Microsoft has an identity crisis to trumpet it's "me-tooism" that they're trendy and hip in the world of computing.
Here's some other recursive acronyms to show how dreadfully 'clever & original' the "_________ is not ______" style is.
Personal story: I'm not a coder but the only place I've heard of XNA was from a frat boy dropout who wanted to be a game programmer that wouldn't shut up about it on our WoW ventrilo.
Yet he didn't know what Blender or C++ are.
Hell he couldn't write any LUA mods or tank worth a darn, so he was useless to us.
All he did was misquote EJ forums into every guild discussion and somehow turning it into an argument to show how smart he was.
Yeah we hated that kid.
I know someone who works for Redmond's marketing team. If "Bing" fails, the next name will be "Squirt". It will be introduced by an expensive advertising campaign featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. We'll see the "fun" side of Bill and the unfunny side of Jerry. At the end of each segment, Ballmer will burst through a wall, his face painted purple, screaming "OH YEAH!"
Rich And Stupid is not so bad as Working For Rich And Stupid.
and the worse of all
- Microsoft
"A turd by any other name still stinks really badly"
trademark pending
Think about it. If there was no "Google" already, and Microsoft choose that as a name, we would all be saying how dorky it was. Same goes for "yahoo" or "skype" or any number of web company names you could pick from a hat.
Their problem is that they really have to come up with something that is a few orders of magnitude better than Google or its not worth switching. It can't be "as good" or even "a little better." Its got to be way way better than google (just like how google was way better than everyone else when they first showed up).
Right or wrong, I always suspect that MS search is designed with the purpose of pointing me preferentially towards MS owned content while Google is more neutral. It is just too easy to imagine the meeting where some aspiring young MBA presents their power-point slides showing how a search portal that secretly directs people towards other company assets will leverage the synergistic potential, or some other BS like that. I just don't trust MS to create a product that puts my interests (neutral indexing of internet content) ahead of their own (market share and stock price).
If "Bing" fails, the next name will be "Squirt".
But won't that confuse the 2 owners of a Zune who have been squirting songs to each other?
If only they'd called "Microsoft Bob" something else...
"Steaming Pile of Shit" would have been a bestseller!
I think 3 was "Try to make people believe Google is a monopoly so we can sue them and then monopolize another market." That would make 4 the rebranding effort, and I would change the "!!" at the end of 5 to "??".
Reminds me of the Donald Duck story The Hypno-Gun, where Donald's nephews had a gun with a spinning disk in front, that they would point at each other shouting "Bing! You're hypnotized!" and pretend that they had been hypnotized. Of course the gun was just a toy, only working on Donald, with the expected hilarious results.
It's a great name, too bad the momentum has been lost.
And there lies the rub. Sure, there are plenty of us who still harbour deep suspicicions about Google and its motives, but those reservations pale by comparison to those surrounding Microsoft.
Once all the hype about MSN search and Windows 7 has died down, I wonder if Microsoft might be forced into a position where its most secure bastion is MSOffice. Whatever we might think of MS, the latter is still probably the only one of their products that really qualifies as a "killer".
Disclaimer: my personal preference is for OpenOffice or NeoOffice, dependent on platform.
The root cause of their search woes is not due to deficient search results. Obviously, the issue is the the lack of a Web 2.0-ey name. Duh.
They should have named it Bling... :p Yeah, they definitely need more Bling.
Among Microsoft's many problems as a company is that they seem to systematically change the names of their products every few years. This is an incredibly wasteful policy. Every time they enact one of these name changes they:
- throw out years' worth of marketing effort
- break documentation and references throughout their website
- break third-party web resources, including howtos, forum advice, and other forms of community support
- force everyone who has to support the product to change all of their references, documentation, marketing, etc.
Why MS shareholders and partners don't see name churn as having a real, damaging impact on the company's long-term success is beyond me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_(mining)
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
So what's the new branding going to be after this one fails? Bong?
Well, it would be popular with the stoner crowd..
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
No, but I predict people will start pronouncing it as "Bung".
;-)
Yes, but only in New Zealand.
The names of almost all "Web companies" are dorky. "Yahoo"? Someone actually named their business "Yahoo"?
Warning: this article may contain humor, sarcasm, parody, and perhaps even irony. Read at your own risk.
Doesn't roll off the tongue, but at least it has some meaning behind it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(philosophy)
blah, blah, blah...
So what's the new branding going to be after this one fails? Bong?
Chandler.
That guy hasn't had much work recently, he's probably available to promote it too.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
"Bob, where's my bong?" "Have you tried looking underneath your belt?" "Not that bong, Bob. The other bong."
Did you try binging your bong?
Take an decent blouse of mine, it still looks like crap on me. Put it on my gf... oh alright my sister, and she looks absolutely hot in it. As Terry Pratchett once noted in a book, for the truly cool, anything they wear looks good.
MS is not cool, it is about as far from cool as you can get with burning yourself. It shouldn't try to be cool. It is like Balmer doing the monkey-dance, it don't fit. He is a boring man and if he tries to be hip, he just end up looking more foolish then he ever could just being boring.
MS search. THAT is a PERFECT name for an MS search engine. It says what it does and who it belongs to. JUST as Micrsoft Word, Internet Explorer and such are great names for a boring company.
stick with your image, it works far better then going against it. Just ask any politician who tried to rap.
Google got away with its name because it was new. MS isn't. Would you buy a IBM mainframe called the iFrame?
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Plus- it's easier to say than "Google" Minus- it's not Google
How many millions (billions?!) do they spend on marketing and branding. If I paid that much, and all they came up with was Zune, Squirt and Bing .. I'd be pissed and would want a refund.
AirSpeak - http://itunes.com/apps/AirSpeak
There's already another tech company, Terabyte Unlimited, using that moniker as shorthand for their boot manager product, BootIt Next Generation. If they've trademarked the abbreviation as well as the full name, they might wind up suing Microsoft over their use of it.
It's an utterly stupid and non-descriptive name for a search engine, anyway.
Hahaha... You would think that MS would google their own product... It seems pron-stars also like the name "Bing" just Google: "bing sucks"
Tee hee ;)
Of course I didn't RTFA, but I did visit bing.com to watch a promotional video - which surprising enough wasn't done in Silverlight. Two things about this promotional video really stuck out about how bad Microsoft really wants to be Google.
The first thing that struck me was the name. Over time Google's name has become a verb, you can "Google It" (tm) for yourself. So Microsoft innovates the only way they know how by scheduling a series of marketing meetings for their droids to come up with a name that out-verbs the competition. "Bing" there you have it, an uninspired and pathetic attempt to squeeze a brand name into our common vernacular.
The second thing that really caught my attention in the video was the first search they show. While the narrator goes on about revolutionary new ways to search the internet, he pulls up Bing to search for "Hotels in Dublin" - a natural way to search for hotels near Dublin that Google implemented into their mapping engine years ago. Just as the search itself was ripped off from Google, so are the results. A map of Dublin pops up with a number of icons, each representing a hotel exactly as Google did... years ago.
Bing's marketing narrator continues on about these "new ways to search" that feel so familiar, and well, old. I'm not convinced they have anything new to offer, but maybe if they keep saying "Bing" enough they will at least convince themselves. I think the only people who will "Bing" anything in the near future are the same ones who have always used Live Search simply because it was available by default.
I went to eat some animal crackers and the box said, "Do not eat if seal is broken." I opened the box and sure enough..
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Nah. Bing and Bob have to be separate products. Microsoft needs to promote them together with a road show.
Laissez lire, et laissez danser; ces deux amusements ne feront jamais de mal au monde. - Voltaire
not the town in North Dakota.
For my generation Bing is followed by Crosby.
I am sure the people at MSFT are to young to have that association,
I clicked on the link, and then on the "Why Bing" button. Nothing. Is it because I'm using Firefox? I can't find any way to actually search on the bing homepage.
All ideas^H^H^H^H^Hprocesses in this post are Patent Pending. (as well as the process of patenting all postings)
Did they name it after Chandler "not gay" Bing? :D
It's impossible for me to think of anything other than Groundhog Day upon hearing this name.
Bing, Live, MSN, Kumo... what the hell is the difference?
How about you fire your marketing department and use names people can understand, like: ...etc
Microsoft Web Search
Microsoft Webmail
Microsoft Product Search
Microsoft News Portal
Would save money and leave the users a lot less confused.
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
There flight search is a direct rip off of kayak.com. Its so blatant that I have to assume they are licensing the tech from that site directly. If not its just another use of Redmond's photocopiers.
Actualy it's:
They're still in step 3.
-dZ.
Carol vs. Ghost
"Google haven't been able to innovate a lot of the UI"
Huh?
Holy mother of marketing. They'd do better calling it "Microsoft Bling", at least it'd sound like something someone might actually want to use. This may be the worst product name since Bob.
On the word Bing?
There is a couple of languages that I know of that when calling a person bing or beng (dialect differences) implicates that that person is a complete and utter moronic idiot.
Note this is not Microsoft bashing this is just facts.
I for one will NEVER use a service called something like that.
Dear Paul:
Google's UI innovation is that people want the fucking UI to get out of the fucking way. People don't want the user interface innovated in new, exciting, and distracting ways. They want you to stick to what works, and make the back end work better. If they notice the user interface, you've failed.
Love, Peter.
It also adds unique tools to help the user make important decisions.
Like a sack of oranges to beat you with?
A "decision engine" that goes "beyond the traditional search engines" ? Doesn't it sound just like a cheap try to surf on the hype wave from Wolfram|Alpha ?
Dont search google for: "Bing sucks"
Yet another lame attempt by Microsoft to be a wanted part of people's online experiences.
lol
So what's the new branding going to be after this one fails? Bong?
Well, it does explain what the marketing people were smoking during the brainstorming sessions.
Clearly 'bing' is a mistake - it was intended to be 'billg'. The original plan was for a little cartoon Bill Gates (think xbill) to pop up and explain answers to you - 640 kilobytes should be enough, and so on. That would have been cool (and certainly more useful than Wolfram Alpha) but the marketing guys made a mistake somewhere.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
"Bing" as in "Crosby"?
Apache, X, and Thunderbird are perfectly good names.
And not all recursive-acronym names are bad. Wine is perfectly good, for example.
I'll give you Gnome, K*, and Gnu, though. IceWeasel is rubbish, but it's not the name given by the product's actual developers, so doesn't count.
And Gimp is undeniably the worst name ever.
Didn't they say much the same things about Vista?
Some days it's just not worth
chewing through my restraints.
Bling!
The net seems to be down, here let me ping Bing, er ,Bling...
Ricochet Rabbit?
so, everyone saying for M$ to give it up, I say keep going. We need competition and if everyone had the same attitide most have on this post, we would not have any. I personally never use Live Search, but thankfully they are there to ensure Google does not have a clear road to do whatever they want. It was M$ who stopped the Google/Yahoo ad debacle.
So, keep it up M$ we need competition. Good or bad....
Just like in the Sopranos, you go to the Bing to see naked ladies.
Its the MS "Random Word Monkey's" fault ,Better not make it mad or it will Squirt you with Its Zune,or just throw a chair at you
From Wikipedia:
"After Crosby's death, his eldest son, Gary, wrote a highly critical memoir, Going My Own Way, depicting [Bing] as cold, remote, and both physically and psychologically abusive."
I think it's a good name.
For my generation Crosby is followed by , Sidney.
I'll get off your lawn and go back north now.
I wonder if Chandler will have a plugin for it.
Ogg Vorbis
MPEG layer 3
IceWeasel
Opera
Thunderbird
LookOut, I mean Outlook
X
DirectX
Prefacing thousands of KDE apps with K
Win prefix
wow, "so you can feel confident you're not taking the advice of say a 13-year-old boy". do we officially have neoneoneoconservativism!? they even had to use the number 13...
Doesn't mean that Bing still wasn't a dumb choice of a name for the "new" Live Search.
What makes Bing any worse than Google, other than that Bing is newer and hasn't yet been promoted?
Bada Bing!
"It also adds unique tools to help the user make important decisions" Well as long as we can have the Government and Microsoft helping us make "important decisions" we should be fine.
Q : What computational answer does Wolfram Alpha return about Bing as input?
A : Language spoken by 1200 people in Papua New Guinea.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=bing&t=igg01
--Explore and serve
Yet another search engine?
Redundant. Redundant.
Looks like Micro$oft is one letter short again...
Or is that pronounced like "binge" - as in "I was on a searching binge all night trying to find a real search engine".
Badda bing!
Sorry if it's been done.
Registering accounts later than some other chrisb since 1997
"How many roads must a man walk down..."
before they "bing" him in the head with a brick.
Microsoft, living examples of the principle of:
"You might be an idiot if you do something over and over again,
and you keep expecting different outcomes,
and are genuinely surprised when you step in the same shit again."
This time, its not working.
There are now anti-trust regulations and Microsoft can't try the old "buy out, or out spend, the opposition."
They were to late to the party.
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If the Slashdot crowd's reaction to a new brand has any predictive power, then Bing is going to be a big hit.
http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/27/1625208
Given the way Microsoft behaves, it's probably gonna be Bada Bing!
"You can't allow somebody to commit the crime before you detain them." [Condoleezza Rice]
Seems an apt name for the search engine, so why change the name?
Or I'll say Bing!
Bing!
Bing!
... it beats its kids.
The difference is that someone (or more likely a team of people) was paid to come up with "Bing". Not so for the majority of what you've mentioned.
-- listen to interesting music, support independent radio... WPRB
I prefer "binge," but "bung" beats "bling."
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I'm going to fucking KILL Gooogle!
Steve Ballmer
Wine is perfectly good, for example.
But WINE Is Not an Emulator!
:D
Ballmer Is Not Gates
Ballmer's Ideas Never Gel
Ballmer's Into Negating Google
Hey, I happen to like the KDE beatboxing app... KRap
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
"Bing" huh, it reminds me of the sound of a ricochet and than makes me think...
[my mental image completed this sentence as...] ...of Ricochet Rabbit and Droop-a-long Coyote.
"Bing, bing, BING!, Ricochet Rabbit!"
IMHO, Microsoft is not anywhere near as cool as Ricochet Rabbit!
Down With Slashdot BETA!!! I've been around the corner and seen the oliphant; you can only abuse me from your perspecti
"Tik-Tok, like you to meet Neeta Hup, the President's Special Advisor on
Communications; what was it?"
She laughed. "Special Advisor on Leisure Communications, Media
Aesthetics and Bong."
"Bong?" I asked, as Hornby drifted away again.
"I felt the word _Art_ didn't belong on the end of a string of syllables
like that, so I changed it to _Bong_," she said. "The President was furious,
but so far no one else official has noticed. Maybe I'll try introducing bong
into the language. People are tired of art, give them bong."
"For bong's sake," I murmured. "_How_ do you advise?"
"I buy, I make acquisitions for the President's collection. He wants to
be the biggest bong collector since Goering. He's heard what a good investment
it is, isn't that pathetic?"
"Oh, I don't know. Money is real, money endures. All the noblest
sentiments can be beautifully expressed in money. If everyone showered artists
with money whenever they saw them, wouldn't this be a finer world?"
See that "Preview" button?
Is the the sound a flying chair makes when it hit a developer's skull when Ballmer throws a fit about being owned online?
by that logic wouldn't step 7 really be step (n + 1)
but all you have is a gold plated piece of poop
Your television will not tell you when to start the revolution.
This morning, our dear leader Steve Ballmer is unveiling our completely new search service, unrelated to anything we at Microsoft have ever done before: Bob Hope.
We spent lots of time listening to you, except when you told us how much MSN Search^W Live Search^W Kumo sucked ’cause you're just wrong about that, to learn which buzzwordy Web 2.0 thingies you use search for today. Finding a webpage that has anything to do with the search terms you entered is so passé, dahling.
So today we're introducing a new kind of search, that goes beyond traditional search engines that do tedious things like find stuff, to instead help you make faster, more informed decisions. (Windows 7 is peachy keen, by the way.) We think of Bob Hope as a Decision Engine. We've sued Stephen Wolfram into atomic dust using our patents on FAT and Mono, co-opted the Wolfram Alpha engine and swapped Mathematica for Visual Basic and Wolfram's brain for the exhumed corpse of Bob Hope.
So why did we pick Bob Hope as the new brand name? We needed a brand that was as fresh and new as our approach. It needed to be like the product: optimized for the Internet. A name that was memorable, short, easy to spell, and that would function well as a URL around the world.
And just look at these results!
What do we want?
Braaains.
When do we want them?
Braaains.
What do I need to run Windows 7?
Braaains.
What's Bill Gates got that means you should buy everything you can from the company he founded?
Braaains.
What's the final proof of Steve Ballmer's equal genius to Steve Jobs?
Vistaaa.
This is something new, something improved! You need to try it! It'll give so much more betterer results than that other search engine we can't name because Steve will wedge another chair up our butts! Please, come and try our new and improved service! FOR GOD'S SAKE TRY THE DAMN SERVICE. OR THE PUPPY GETS IT. We're Microsoft. We're serious as a heart attack on this one.
http://rocknerd.co.uk
4. Government bailout.
Nice loop unrolling! Does that make it go faster?
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
<sound="Game show fail">Bing bow?</sound>
Hey Chandler, Chandler, Chandler Bing.
I'm sorry but these guys at Microsoft just need to give up software and sell XBOXes and Zunes and leave the rest of the world to clean up their mess.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
The Bing Bong Brothers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4iiyRv_NrQ
Yeah, I don't really like that one.
"That which does not kill us makes us stranger." -Trevor Goodchild
""Needlenose Ned"? "Ned the Head"? C'mon, buddy. Case Western High. Ned Ryerson: I did the whistling belly-button trick at the high school talent show? Bing! Ned Ryerson: got the shingles real bad senior year, almost didn't graduate? Bing, again."
I am literally 3000 tokens away from the chaotic crossbow --Stephen
It depends on whether Bill Gates participates in the publicity campaign.
-dZ.
Carol vs. Ghost
It's just that (4) isn't clear.
Congrats on figuring out the meme. ;)
Property is theft.
I read the headline as "Microsoft rebrands Live Search with 'bling'", which will likely prove closer to the truth.
Property is theft.
Oh My God.
<Voice>
-- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -- Aristotle
In other news, the Crosby estate sues Microsoft for violation of trade dress in re: "Bing's Greatest Hits" volumes 1 through 94.
Do not mock my vision of impractical footwear
-iWork
...is Apple any better? I sometimes flinch when I talk about Oggs or the GIMP, but Apple's names sound pretty cheesy too. I think any name for software is going to strike the wrong nerve with someone, because everyone has their own personal tastes. Even the GNOME apps with names like 'Web Browser', and 'Text Editor' (not their real names, but what the environment - and by extension, the user - refers to them as) are boring and ordinary. Your name can be the stupidest thing in the world, but at least people will remember it, which is all that counts.
-iTunes
-iMovie
-iPod
-iPhone
-iMac
Funny may not give karma, but +5 Informative never made anyone snort coffee out their nose.
Phase 1: Collect Underpants
Phase 2: Bing
Phase 3: Profit!
Pretty much the only app I wish I could have on my linux box, and have spent time looking to replace (unsuccessfully)
You better watch out, there may be dogs about . .
thud. Google FTW!
Bing! from the company that brought squirting to the masses.
His name was Robert Paulson.
Hum...Let' see..
There, fixed that for you.
- Ogg Vorbis
Ogg: Named after a game tactic akin to a single-unit zerg rush
Vorbis: book character
Theora: TV character
Xiph (foundation developing ogg): a fish
- Apache
Indians, by military helicopters are cooler.
- IceWeasel
Pun on 'Firefox'
- Thunderbird
Vaguely similar in theme to Firefox, also the name of a car
- X
It's Unix predecessor was 'W', I believe.
- Prefacing thousands of KDE apps with K
Why not?
If they would like into the 'hip' crowd, maybe they could call it "Coolgle"?
:p
I think the Fonz would approve. Heyyyy
CA have renamed their products several times in the last few years which has resulted in great confusion and annoyance.
The overhaul of their website doesn't help either. I *STILL* can't find pages that I have bookmarked in the past. To be more specific, some pages are still there.. I just can't figure how to get to them using the menu.
It is lovely reporting to management that the procurement is for CA's 'SCM' software.
Oh, what's that?
"Software" "Change" "Manager"
# Right. Ok. I got that we need software for change management and that CA has something we can use.
> yes. It's called CA Software Change Manager
# Okay. Right. So, this works for everything?
> No. Just midrange. For mainframe it is "Software Change Manager for Mainframe"
# Isn't that what you just said?
> No. "Software" "Change" "Manager" is for midrange. "Software Change Manager for Mainframe" is for mainframe.
# Okay. Right. Thank you for clearning that up...
> *sigh* Listen. CA have two products. One is called "Harvest". It is for software change management on midrange. They also have a product called "Endevor". This is for software change managemenr for mainframe.
# Why didn't you just say so?
> *sigh* Because CA rebranded Harvest to 'SCM' and Endevor to 'SCM for Mainframe'.
# That is confusion.
> No. Really?
I've had this conversation at least 10 times now in meetings. There is a very good reason why you pick a NAME for your software - to identify it what it is, what it does, how it is used, who should use it.. etc. Giving it a bland generic name can be really annoying when it isn't used by everyone on the planet.
4. is the same as 1, 2 and 3 ad nauseum: doing "something" but will never result in 5. Time for an organizational shuffle.
Society use your Sciences
Hum...Let' see..
It's just that (4) isn't clear.
4 - GoTo 2
Crappy programming, I know. But hey, it's Microsoft! And then they are left wondering why they never reach the Profit-part...
Anybody know when Bing will be released? So far I haven't able to Bing (or Google) that info.
"There are good ships, and there are wood ships, the ships that sail the sea. But the best ships are friendships, and ma
I thought it was Droop-a-long Cassidy. Right-eo on the MS is not-as-cool factor.
LoB
"Anyone who stands out in the middle of a road looks like roadkill to me." --Linus
Dubious product qualities aside, 1.3 billion Chinese won't want to touch it. "Bing" (pronounced like non-Chinese people are likely to) means "illness" or "plague". It's a really common word.
I always supposed that Ogg came from Nanny Ogg, which is also a character in the Discworld series.
I always supposed that Ogg came from Nanny Ogg.
Word of God* says no.
*I have lost hours of my time to that website.
... where a bing is one of those large heaps of unwanted stuff that is dug out of a coal mine - a slagheap in other words.
"Bong: Searches for sure."
The web's favicon looks suspiciously similar to ebuddy's logo.
The video froze on me for some reason near the beginning, leaving me with the image of someone searching for "world's largest rod"...
Oh shit... whoever wrote this should really get those mod points (in a non-anon account).
This is one of the most funny comments I have read in a long time :)
I hope you don't mind using this as my new sig :)
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Actualy it's:
They're still in step 3.
-dZ.
I think it is more like that...
Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'I can't configure Debian'
Sadly all this did was remind me of a (very) poor joke (which should really be said in a Scottish accent).
Q: What's the difference between Bing Crosby and Walt Disney ?
A: Bing sings and Walt disnae.
Sorry about that :)
Sky subscribers are morons. They pay to be advertised at !
No, "Google" is a misspelling of "googol". (That's why the Chinese version is called "Baidu", which means "googol".) Actually the word came from the founder's baby daughter (not sure if Sergey's or Larry's), but the founder remembered that the word had a meaning so he went with that.
404555974007725459910684486621289147856453481154 in hex is "You sank my Battleship?"
[GPG key in journal]
Shame on the author for comparing MSFT's net profit/loss to Google's gross sales.
- Thunderbird
Vaguely similar in theme to Firefox, also the name of a car
I'm pretty sure the name thunderbird came before firefox. Originally it was called Minotaur when Firefox was called Phoenix. The Phoenix BIOS people complained of trademark violation, so Mozilla started calling it Mozilla Phoenix. Phoenix Technologies was still pissed so they renamed it Firebird. The Firebird database people then complained about the name. Again, Mozilla tried "Mozilla Firebird" before changing to Firefox. Thunderbird was named in reference to Firebird, but I'm not 100% sure if that move was before or after the switch to Firefox.
Said, "It's just like dice but it's got more sides And it tells me who lives and who dies"
This was funny the first few times it was posted.
Anyway, Debian stable is a fantastic server OS, where you install, configure it for your needs, and leave it, installing security updates as needed.
Ubuntu server LTS versions are good too if you want to have an easy install and paid support from Canonical, but you pay for it by some stupid dependency configs and unnecessary packages. I'm not sure if they fixed this in more recent versions, but if for example you have the "ubuntu-desktop" package installed, you can't remove Firefox without removing the entire "ubuntu-desktop" package. Granted, you can configure X, Gnome (or KDE or XFCE or whatever), and the rest of the DE. But you might as well use Debian at that point. Before you say that you should not need a DE on a server, I know this, but many paying clients wont accept that.
For normal desktop use, Ubuntu is fantastic, it is nice to not spend many hours configuring the base OS, and just have a quick install with most things configured the right way by default.
Said, "It's just like dice but it's got more sides And it tells me who lives and who dies"
Yeah, you're right... everyone else thought it was a great name. :P
That's the same sound I make every time I come to a conclusion... This may be the search engine for me!
"Bing!"
That means your business model is still alive!
Shouldn't that be Chanandler Bong?
Karma: 2.71828182846 (Mostly due to small, fun pills)
Quit giving them ideas, nitwit!
I know tobacco is bad for you, so I smoke weed with crack.
I am a stoner M$ hater, you insensitive clod!
I know tobacco is bad for you, so I smoke weed with crack.
Amazing nobody has mentioned this.
IANAL but write like a drunk one.
Actually, step 5 is simply, "GOTO 3"