from SLATE: >The NY [TIMES] notes that as Microsoft planned its latest attempt to take on >Google in the Internet search business, it knew it had to come up with a good >name to rival a company whose name has entered the popular lexicon as a verb. >Yesterday it unveiled its result: Bing. "Microsoft's marketing gurus hope that >Bing will evoke neither a type of cherry nor a strip club on The Sopranos," >notes the paper. Instead, they want people to associate it with "the sound of >found." Techies were quick to point out it's also an acronym: "But It's Not >Google."<
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