Another annoying Microsoft Ad

[pasithea]

Ah Microsoft and their 'decision engine'.

bing.com for the intellectually incurious! Don't waste your time reading wikipedia entries and gaining knowledge. You want to be a good consumer. BING!

Comments

[tracerj.livejournal.com]

The only thing I know about that Bing crap is that they had these ads on Hulu which were pretty damned tacky. I don't even know what it's supposed to be. Am I a bad Internet citizen?

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

It's microsoft's new search engine.

[centauress.livejournal.com]

It's rebadged Google output. It does nothing that Google doesn't do. There's no 'decision engine'. Unless, of course, you're not looking for something specific.

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

I would seriously doubt that it's algorithm is as effective as google's at this point, they have nearly a decade of user data to mine, which is why no matter what gibberish I type into the google search bar it always asks me "Did you mean ..." and it's fucking right, that is what I meant. Yeah, the term "decision engine" is of course nothing but pure marketing pap.

[centauress.livejournal.com]

No, literally. Go check them out. You'll get the same ads, the same output, plus some ads. There's a minor difference on spelling errors and output... But looks just like Google licensed product for use in other systems.

FOAFing

[discreet-chaos.livejournal.com]

It looks more like Mahalo (http://www.mahalo.com/) to me.

[tracerj.livejournal.com]

See, why do they bother? They already had one perfectly serviceable for passing up in favour of Google.

Then again, it'll be nice to have another one around in case Google ever implodes....

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, who had what that was better than google?

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

The main problem I have with the commercials is that the problems the commercials parody were already fixed by the engine they're trying directly to compete with, google. They really don't have any edge. I mean, I guess they can kill yahoo once and for all, but the commercials don't promise anything that the savvy internet user hasn't been enjoying for about a decade.

[neonbunny.livejournal.com]

I really hate their adds. I will never even allow that page to load on any computer I am on.

While they may think I am too stupid to know what I want, and that they have to do everything for me (they do this with their programs like word and powerpoint too), I for one like having some control over my computer, and can often get it to do what I want it to do, when I have a computer that allows me to do it myself. Same with my search engine. Google FTW!

[yetanotherbob.livejournal.com]

My boss visited TechCrunch, and TechCrunch is trying to get rid of the Bing stickers (Msft gave them 5 boxes, apparently). Want some?

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

I've got a feeling that if you hold on to them for a decade they'll have the same kitschy appeal as crystal Pepsi!

"By my patron deitie's third leg," people will say, "this is from the time when men amused themselves by scrivening the thoughts of cats on pictures of the same! Do you remember, Gastigalt, do you remember yore's day of mirthful domestic feliformia, when negatron circulation ran machines and language was so much simpler, for it came from the tips of fat stubby fingers?"

[salamandream.livejournal.com]

What I don't understand is why their ads attack Wikipedia if the product competes with Google. Non sequiter much?