When I first heard of the name for MS's "new" "decision" engine I thought of Groundhog Day when Stephen Tobolowsky's (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0864997/) character says bing after every right answer. The character was designed to be harmless, but annoying. Good job Microsoft!
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Micheal Espinola Jr < [email protected]> wrote: > I have to admit, I think they chose the name poorly. Google sounded a bit > silly to begin with too, but "bing" is not a positive word association for > me. > > I'd be really interested to know what research went into choosing this name > and what the results were. I'm certainly not the average user, but I'm > interested to know who is. > > I wonder if this was chosen internally by Microsoft or one of their > marketing/ad agencies... > > -- > ME2 > > > On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Sam Cayze <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Bing reminds me of one of those spammy landing pages for a misspelled >> URL. >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Monday, June 22, 2009 11:13 AM >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* RE: Bing vs. Google (a side-by-side framed web site) >> >> Interesting. Seemed to me that Google loaded a bit faster than Bing. >> Guess I know which one I’m going to (keep) using. J >> >> >> >> [image: John-Aldrich][image: Tile-Tools] >> >> >> >> *From:* Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Monday, June 22, 2009 11:50 AM >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Bing vs. Google (a side-by-side framed web site) >> >> >> >> http://www.bing-vs-google.com/?q=%22death+star%22 >> >> -- >> ME2 >> >> >> >> >> >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.12.87/2195 - Release Date: 06/22/09 >> 06:54:00 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
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