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Bing Search Tainted By Pro-Microsoft Results
bdcny7927 writes "Just as Bing is gaining popularity, some disturbingly pro-Microsoft and anti-Apple search results are rearing their ugly heads. Case in point: a search on Bing for the phrase, 'Why is Windows so expensive?' returned this as the top link: 'Why are Macs so expensive.' That's right. You're not hallucinating."
Google doesn't really seem all that different. It just gets the Mac hate a bit lower down. And are we really going to deliver judgement on the basis of a single search? Doesn't seem very scientific to me!
Also, since when has Google been a paragon of independence in its searches? I seem to recall that searching for anything related to a Google product will return Google's product at or near the top.
This whole topic is a troll. Look, Xboxen are expensive, Microsoft Windows is f*cking expensive, and apparently, Microsoft sucks. I rest my case.
There are two kinds of people: 1) those who start arrays with one and 1) those who start them with zero.
Of course they have a right to do that. And you have a right not to use their service.
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."
Either you're horribly offtopic or you're trying to imply that MS has a right to secretly manipulate search results in their favor
MS has a right to return whatever results they want with Bing. It's a free service. They have no obligation to serve you impartially. Get over your unfounded sense of entitlement.
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
They haven't branded it a "search engine" quite possibly for that reason. They call it a "decision engine."
"You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time."