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i wanna know where MS gets these lobotomized idiots that dream up these "catchy" names for their crap.

   /search google=MS+idiots=too many hits.

It's out. It sucks.

http://lifehacker.com/5273715/bing-goes … do-with-it

http://www.bing.com/search?q=Microsoft+ … ;form=QBRE

http://www.bing.com/search?q=google+roc … ;form=QBRE

They're spending $100 million for their ad campaign.

Personally, I'd rather they pump that dough into their Mac Business Unit. For crying out loud, the MBU apparently didn't have it in their budget to add a Canadian English dictionary for Mac Office '08. Pitiful.

mrreet2001 wrote:

What's spelled differently in Canada than in the USA?

Lots, but I'll leave you do the research.

For now, the solution has been to "Add to dictionary", but a proper dictionary from MS would be nice.

You you guys use US English and UK English? Throw in French ... It's a wonder you guys can spell at all.

Last edited by mrreet2001 (2009-06-01 10:54 am)

If I did want a new search engine I wouldn't turn to MS.

ukimalefu wrote:

It's out. It sucks.

Can something like this...

Fox upset about Bing
Says Microsoft peddles smut

US RIGHT-WING PROPAGANDA TV network Fox News (sic) has its knickers twisted about Microsoft's new search engine, Bing.

It claims that the Vole's latest search engine makes it all too easy to view hardcore porn videos without even leaving the search engine.

What has got Fox upset is that Bing has an "autoplay" feature that lets users preview videos simply by hovering the mouse over them.

This means that the video will play without punters having to make the effort to visit the hardcore porn website and possibly undergo age screening procedures.

Fox moans that children and all good Reich-wing Christian Republicans who get upset at the thought of adult entertainment need to be protected from this sort of thing.

It claims that a lot of "family-oriented" pressure groups are demanding that search engines tighten up their censorship so that Republicans and children will have to present their credit card details before they get to see anything that might be salacious. µ

...be all bad?

ukimalefu wrote:

Bing's results can be filtered

Which is to be reasonably expected.

but the filters are not on by default.

Which is one of Microsoft's typical stupidity MOs.

ScifiterX wrote:

ukimalefu wrote:

Bing's results can be filtered

Which is to be reasonably expected.

but the filters are not on by default.

Which is one of Microsoft's typical stupidity MOs.

Well, no. You may have to dig, I came on this back when but forgot to post it. Bashing is easier, tho.

Microsoft has added an additional filter to its Bing search engine to help block what some have called an unexpected portal to porn.

Microsoft said it has filtered out explicit content by default since Bing launched earlier this week. Bing also added a voice service, 800-BING-411, as well as a mobile site and a redesign of its Farecast service, now known as Bing Travel.

Some, however, have complained that users who explicitly request a Bing search that includes adult content will receive videos with explicit content without needing to leave the Bing site itself. One of Bing's features, called Smart Motion Previews, creates a 30-second "trailer" of the content on the Bing site itself, offering up a snippet of the movie to the user.

Microsoft defended the Smart Motion Previews technology.

"What's cool about the technology is that it helps you decide if it is a video you want to go watch," Mike Nichols, Bing's general manager, wrote in a blog post. "This makes it easier to sort through the clutter of all those results and help you get to what you are looking for. And as a publisher, when people leave Bing for your site (and require bandwidth on your servers) it tends to be higher quality traffic because folks are sure of what they wanted to watch. Plus, we think it's pretty cool."

However, Nichols said that Microsoft is adding an additional layer of protection. "So for right now, we wanted to let people know that you can add "adlt=strict" to the end of a query and no matter what the settings are for that session, it will return results as if safe search was set to strict," Nichols wrote. "The query would look like this: http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=adu … dlt=strict (yes it is case sensitive)."

The additional filter is designed to let current firewall and parental-control programs filter out searches that could return adult content, and to filter results at the network level. In the next couple of months Microsoft plans to formalize the process for the company's partners, Nichols added.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2348257,00.asp

Would've let it go anyway, but there's newer news...

jgcampos wrote:

macnuke wrote:

i wanna know where MS gets these lobotomized idiots that dream up these "catchy" names for their crap.

   /search google=MS+idiots=too many hits.

Oh they are not only hired, they are the owners of MS!!

Maybe they're the public, too.

Not a Google-killer (or even a Yahoo-killer) yet, but Bing shows some prowess

The online search market is an incredibly lucrative one. There's a massive amount of traffic and accompanying data to be mined, and in addition advertising revenue to be harvested. Control the internet search, and you stand to become one of the most profitable tech companies. Unfortunately, since Google established its dominance, almost no one (outside of Yahoo) has been able to attempt to gain such control.

Microsoft is looking to at last change that. After pouring millions into its online search offerings and seeing them flounder, struggling to even break with Yahoo's market share, the company needed a change. It first tried to purchase Yahoo and merge the searches -- but that didn't work out so well. So Microsoft spent more money going back to the drawing board, creating a fancy new search engine titled Bing.

And amazingly, this time it has seemed to work; early indications are that while Bing won't displace Yahoo overnight as Google's primary competitor, that it is popular and on the rise.

Bing on The Rise With Steady 30 Percent Rise in Traffic Over 2 Weeks

I have been seeing commercials on TV for this a lot lately.

Yes, it's pretty gay if you have to advertise your search engine.  Can't say I've ever seen a Google ad on tv.

And yet it's gaining share.