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Does Bing Have Google Running Scared?
suraj.sun alerts us to an anonymous-source story up at the NY Post, not what we would normally consider a leading source of tech news, claiming that Microsoft's introduction of Bing has alarmed Google. "...co-founder Sergey Brin is so rattled by the launch of Microsoft's rival search engine that he has assembled a team of top engineers to work on urgent upgrades to his Web service, The Post has learned. Brin, according to sources..., is himself leading the team of search-engine specialists in an effort to determine how Bing's crucial search algorithm differs from that used by [Google]. 'New search engines have come and gone in the past 10 years, but Bing seems to be of particular interest to Sergey,' said one insider, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The move by Brin is unusual, as it is rare these days for the Google founders to have such hands-on involvement in day-to-day operations at the company, the source added." CNet's coverage of the rumor begins with the NY Post and adds in Search Engine Land's speculation on what the world of search would look like if Yahoo exited the field.
How the article paints it (and what sells newspapers):
... but sir, what about the 20% of the time they get to work on their own projects ...
... *ahem* users that left us for Bing. You know some video widget or bell or whistle or some such crap. Those users'll be back anyway.
Google Drone: *bursts through the office doors* Fuhrer Brin, Fuhrer Brin! I've news that Microsoft's Bing service is gaining on us!
Sergey Brin: JesusChristJesusChristJesusChrist what're we gonna do?! Oh god oh god, we are so fucked! *kicks over his desk and gets up to pace wildly about the room* Why is there no coke on this goddamn coffee table when I need it?!
Google Drone: *empties a baggy of cocaine onto the polished marble table and starts cutting lines* We need action now, sir.
Sergey Brin: *inhales a long line and rubs his hands all over his face* Ok, ok, I got it. Get every able bodied person on 24/7 shifts for the next month working to make our service better.
Google Drone: Bu
Sergey Brin: SCREW that, we have an emergency. Get me everyone in the auditorium now, we ain't leavin' until the Google main search page is shitting rainbows and making the users feel like unicorns!
What's really happening:
Google Drone: *walks calmly into Brin's hermetically sealed chamber* Here's the reports for competitors, sir. It looks like Bing may have established itself as a competitor with Yahoo! but it's too early to tell.
Sergey Brin: *steeples his fingers and lets out a long calm calculated sigh* Great, another trivial nuisance to keep an eye on -- well I didn't get this far by ignoring things. Ok.
Google Drone: I'll put them on the big board, sir.
Sergey Brin: Good but be sure not to put them on the buyout dart board, they're not an option.
Google Drone: Yessir, anything else, sir?
Sergey Brin: Yes, round up the boys in the rec room that seem to have so much free time lately and see if they can brainstorm up an optional beta prototype we could throw on our page to win back the morons
My work here is dung.
Typical Microsoft.
It's all marketing.
Woo hoo.
Unless, of course, you're like Microsoft and think "compete" means "lie".
Whatever, Microsoft knows what the consumer wants. It's not speed or accuracy or any of that stuff that Google uses to measure "quality." It's so much more simpler than that. Microsoft has searchability.
What? You don't know what searchability is? Well, then you're like the guy in Microsoft's commercial where a user is using Bing and his friend comes up and asks him what "searchability" means and everyone laughs him out of the room. You don't want to look stupid, do you? Didn't think so.
You don't need numbers and statistics that can be twisted, you just need to know that Bing has the best searchability. Jerry Seinfeld will eat a churro to that. Searchability. It's just more searchable.
Sad thing is, that'd probably be an effective ad. And if you don't think so, look at Budweiser's latest campaign.
Baa. Baaaaaa. Baa.
My work here is dung.
What do you mean "If Yahoo exited the field"? Do you actually know anyone who uses Yahoo for search? What was the last time you've heard "yahoo it"? How about "google it"? Yahoo still makes the best portal (my.yahoo.com - although they are getting annoying with their cutesy changes), but search? Anyone remember Altavista? Yahoo, meet Altavista.
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Go to bing.com and click on video search. Then type in "naked women" and hit enter. Hover your mouse over each thumbnail. Now you should understand why google is scared shitless of bing, they are already destroying them where it counts, as a porn search engine.
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Bing gives us what Google already gave us 10 years ago. This is a major advance for Microsoft.
They used to be the company that gave us what Apple gave us a decade ago, now they are the company that gives us what Google gave us a decade ago.
It's good to see that Microsoft is not stagnating, but is still able to trail way behind its competitors always trying to be something it isn't.
I miss the Microsoft of the 1980's, when they actually had products that weren't copies of everybody else's products.
>> speculation on what the world of search would look like if Yahoo exited the field.
Similar to how the world of racing would look if stuffed turtles left it.
There, fixed that for you. Now you'll be able to properly find all the tentacle porn you were originally looking for.
"Yes. They're a marketing company that has some tech leanings - it's been this way for as long as I've been into computers (the early 80's)"
Sure, who can forget the famous 1984 commercial and the 16 page insert in Newsweek magazine for Windows 1.0 .. oh wait.
You fool! That'll create a recursive paradox that'll rip apart the space time continuum!
Of course Google is scared! Bing doesn't require me to change my Image search filters to allow explicit material EVERY time I open a browser and search for 'boobs.'
Maybe your wife already set the cookie :)
Who are you kidding? You don't need to PAY News Corp to come up with crap! They do it all on their own!
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".
Buying up the talent that stands in your way doesn't mean those programmers are going to try 100%. Maybe Vista was some sort of company internal backlash from pissing off major groups of employees.
Anything can be found funny, from a certain point of view.
My gods, this may just be the greatest ad for a Microsoft product I have ever seen.
Must. Resist. Urge. To try. Bing.
Let's use Bing because it has one syllable. Plus, would you rather "Google" your friend's sister or "Bing" her?
Nuclear engineers build weapons. Civil engineers build targets.
Ok, that's pretty funny on both counts, but I often type in a URL into a search engine to make sure I go to the legit site and not accidentally to some "whitehouse.com" or "bankfoamerica.com" type of site.
Maybe I'm just some old timer and the anti-phishing in browsers is plenty fine... idk. But anyway, the point being that all the related searches and 'this is like' sidebars can actually help a lot. Another poster says goog does this also if you select the options to do it. So anyway I'm not trying to claim Bing invented anything (it's Microsoft...), just saying that as an the overall search engine it's on par with google if not better in some ways... definitely not '10 years behind' like the original poster said. I guess I missed the joke.
Funny. I went to bing by searching "bing" on Google. Sure enough, bing.com is top of the list.
Then I tried to search "bing" on bing, bing.com, is just 7th place!
heh.. I think the lemur doesn't have much of a choice -- the Gorilla's been trying to visit the Lemur's cage of late (y'know, Chrome, Android, Google Docs, etc.)
Now that's a big part of the market we're talking about. So Google is rightly scared out of its wits.
Sorry ... can't fault Microsoft this time. It's finally delivering value to the masses.
...the evidence: http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1696/bing2.jpg
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That's just a field he forgot to fill in on the MS astro turfing system.
Microsoft exploited it with, tada, a better product.
Do you really think a superior notification sound made people buy Windows ?
Squirrel!
The end of your post is missing.
(and everyone with a credit card and a pulse is a potential consumer)
Wow, you know some picky marketers...
The end of your post is missing.
Here it is...
Bing is not Google
(Bing is not Google) is not google
((Bing is not Google) is not Google) is not google
(((Bing is not Google) is not Google) is not Google) is not google
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