The Truth Behind Bing: A Scientist's Perspective on Microsoft's Search Engine

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The Bing-athon event, initially promoted as a comedic show featuring Olivia Muntz, turned out to be a marketing stunt encouraging the use of Microsoft's search engine, Bing, with giveaways for searches. Participants expressed disappointment, comparing it to a "Gabbo" stunt from The Simpsons, and criticized the ad's portrayal of users mindlessly sharing facts. While some users noted that Bing's interface is visually appealing and highlighted features like traffic maps and travel tools, many remained unimpressed, feeling it lacks innovation compared to Google. Concerns about ad blocking affecting page load times were also raised, alongside skepticism about Microsoft's marketing strategies. Overall, the discussion reflects mixed feelings about Bing's potential to compete with Google in the search engine market.
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It was being advertised weeks in advance as some kind of stand up comic show..."come to the Bing-athon with Olivia Muntz!" People were curious. Basically they were pulling the "Gabbo" stunt from the Simpson's.

The Bing-athon turned out to be two people on a stage telling you to use Microsoft's new search engine, and giving out a puppy to some girl for every X searches. Okay...

Now I see another advertisement for Bing which shows people mindlessly spouting off facts they read from the internet. It's an advertisement for Bing, because apparently, if you use Bing, you won't learn any random facts?

Doing a search with Bing, the only difference I notice from google is that half the page doesn't load due to ad/script blocking

Well, I'm thoroughly unimpressed...but why does Microsoft think their product is so revolutionary?
 
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Well, the live.com cash back thing is pretty cool. And the site looks a lot nicer than google's all white and blue white format. The traffic maps are pretty sweet also.

I don't necessarily like MSs marketing department but the site seems interesting though.
 
Bing sucks because MS sucks.
 
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It was being advertised weeks in advance as some kind of stand up comic show..."come to the Bing-athon with Olivia Muntz!" People were curious. Basically they were pulling the "Gabbo" stunt from the Simpson's.

Viral marketing. I think it needs to be done right otherwise people will only be let down.
 
I bing'ed (what!) my name and it came up with my driver license number, SS number, date of birth, address, and over due library books. :eek:

You should see the stuff it has for Moonbear and Greg :devil:
 
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I hope it's able to mount a reasonable challenge to Google (my preferred search engine).
 
You can now google things with bing. Bing, the new way to google.
 
Bing is a pretty good attempt at creating a useful SE. I actually use the travel feature often. Should be interesting to see it evolve.
 
And the site looks a lot nicer than google's all white and blue white format. The traffic maps are pretty sweet also.

I've always thought that was the reason Google became popular in the first place. While Yahoo and Excite and Altavista and AskJeeves all had these slow-loading advert filled annoying pages that you didnt want to load every time you open your browser, Google was all business. graphics don't help you search..

Still seems like it's just Google + maps.google with nothing new
 

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