Kudus to Microsoft if thats true.

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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:48 PM, Jonathan Link <[email protected]>wrote:

> 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:
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>> 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...
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>> ME2
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>>  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
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>>> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
>>> Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.12.87/2195 - Release Date:
>>> 06/22/09 06:54:00
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