Google Loses Santa To Bing

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 13, 2012 @08:09AM from the who's-been-nice-to-whom dept.

New submitter Sebolains writes "Unlike previous years, NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) has decided to use Bing maps to track Santa's journey as he goes around the world delivering presents. Starting Christmas eve, one will be able to go to the official NORAD Santa tracking site and use Bing maps to see where Santa is delivering presents at that time. In previous years, NORAD has always gone for Google maps to track Saint Nick. The reason for this switch were not disclosed, but since nearly 25 million people are expected to use this tool come this Christmas, this will definitely benefit Bing in the ongoing competition for online map applications."

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Re:I tell my kids he uses Apple maps. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-13 08:19 · Score: 3, Insightful

The NK rockets only hit the ocean by accident. They weren't aiming for it.
Re:Use Bing or we'll shoot this elf by Anonymous Coward · 2012-12-13 08:58 · Score: 3, Insightful

Somebody woke up with a reindeer head in their bed. On a more serious note, WTF is wrong with people that they go to this much trouble to lie to children?
Re:Google Maps Pricing by morcego · 2012-12-13 09:02 · Score: 4, Insightful

Also, it is not like Google is the small kid that needs to be protected against Microsoft.
Whatever the reason for the switch, in a nutshell we can simply say: Google dropped the ball.

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