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tazber
#1Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 8:23am

Anyone else used it?

It give more precise results, and I like the pictures in the background.

Thought?


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JustAGuy
#2re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 10:03am

So,when you find information on Google, you say I "googled" it.

What's the proper word to use when you find something on Bing?

I "binged" it? I'm not feeling it.


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tazber
#2re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 10:43am

I was kinda hoping that turning nouns into verbs was a trend that wouldn't follow with Bing.

While I say "googled" like everyone else, it still feels weird.


....but the world goes 'round

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Broadwayboobs
#3re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 10:47am

I find Bing very helpful when I am looking to book a vacation and need to find cheap flights. Usually if a friend asks where I found the information I just say "I went to Bing.com" re: Bing


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zepka102
#4re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 11:24am

Saying you will "bing" something sounds dirty. Or malicious.


::bust a move::

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IAMWHATIAM
#5re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 11:25am

re: Bing

I thought you meant the somewhat odd/interesting (yet yummy) shaved ice dessert and got all excited.


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Mister Matt
#5re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 11:25am

I vaguely remember we had the ability to search things on the internet before the existence of Google. I just think the Google marketing team was more successful than those of Yahoo or Alta Vista. They became the Apple of internet searching. I'm waiting for the launch of the inevitable iGoogle.


"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

FindingNamo
#7re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 11:46am

But it'd not as if Google wasn't better than all of those. I would never have given up Alta Vista if Google hadn't left it in the dust. I mean, not to contradict your played out "Apple is just hype, it's not so great, the world is unfair" theme.

As for Bing, I guess I understand Microsoft's attempt to create a non-existent need and then claim to meet it. But I bet I've had to go to the second page of Google search results to find what I was looking for maybe 15 times, ever.

As for gerunding of "Google" (ha! I just gerunded "gerund"!) I use my own geric word so I'm not always dropping a brand name. I use the word "spooge". "I spooged some great Jack Radcliffe photos," or "I spooged you on Google."


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millie_dillmount
#8re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 11:57am

"I vaguely remember we had the ability to search things on the internet before the existence of Google. I just think the Google marketing team was more successful than those of Yahoo or Alta Vista."

Yeah, I remember the days of Yahoo!, and when I was younger, Yahooligans. I can't say Google is the best search engine, but I have never had major issues with Google. So in my opinion, Bing isn't really better or worse. To me, a search engine is a search engine so I just use whatever comes to my mind first. Which happens to be Google, because they did a good job marketing themselves.


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zepka102
#9re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 11:59am

I still use Yahoo as my main search engine. That probably explains why I always forget what I opened it for because I get distracted by random news articles.


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tazber
#10re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 12:19pm

Me too, Zep.


....but the world goes 'round

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Shawk
#11re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 12:35pm

I remember the days of Metacrawler...

It's not like it's that hard to find things in Google, or refine your search results if the first thing you type doesn't get you the answer you want.

Also, the Google interface has stayed very stripped-down and easy to navigate. Yahoo!'s page has gotten more and more packed full of things as time has gone on... it's visually very cluttered.


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PalJoey
#12re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 12:54pm

I bingled "Der Bingle" and this is what I banged.

re: Bing


Bluemoon
#13re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 1:09pm

God, what a foursome^!

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NYadgal
#14re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 1:12pm

...as Deet would say: *bites tongue* re: Bing


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PalJoey
#15re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 1:14pm

NYadgal...she bangs.


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IAMWHATIAM
#16re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 1:14pm

Wow, what a foursome - so much talent and charisma!


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Bluemoon
#17re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 1:16pm

OK, since we've strayed off topuc this far...

....PJ- what performance was that?

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PalJoey
#18re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 1:32pm

"The Bing Crosby Show" from 9/29/59.

I believe this is a shot of Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Peggy Lee and Bing Crosby singing "I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore"

I would KILL to get it on YouTube.


Bluemoon
#19re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 1:35pm

OK, I'm just REALLY knocked out by the fact that you ever know what song they were doing and it wasn't in YouTube.

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PalJoey
#20re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 1:37pm

As a consolation prize, here's Bing, Dean and Frank singing some special-material lyrics to "Together Wherever We Go"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ9aMHsUlIY

(Think Sondheim wrote that "Italian" rhyme?)


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Mister Matt
#21re: Bing
Posted: 8/28/09 at 1:59pm

But it'd not as if Google wasn't better than all of those. I would never have given up Alta Vista if Google hadn't left it in the dust. I mean, not to contradict your played out "Apple is just hype, it's not so great, the world is unfair" theme.

I should have been more specific. I was responding to the use of the term "Googling" to mean all things internet search related. But no, I don't believe the world is unfair because Apple is popular and I don't believe you think I do, either. Google is for the most part, a better search engine. I use it. My comment was about the widespread viral speed of its popularity, not unlike that of the iPod, rather than on the quality of its functionality.


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