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Bing: What’s More Evil Than Satan Himself? 10^100

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While the charges of whining/evil has a whiff of truth to them, this is just example #1001 that Microsoft and humor should be kept at a very safe distance from each other.

As a Googler I found this pretty funny myself. Most people won't even understand it without explanation, and those that do are likely the right sort to also find the decade old event it's a play off. I doubt too many people are going to take the wrong message away from this.

It's nice to see people are still allowed to have fun with their products.

Steve Ballmer has the first 1000 covered.

I laughed. Hard. The mathy allusion to Googol is a Google-style nerd-joke, which adds another level of awesomeness. (Sorry for the lack of substance in this comment.)

FYI, this is a reference to a previous Google bomb where Microsoft was the target: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb#History

I guess there are teams at MS that are lucky enough to be able to avoid the policy against Easter Eggs: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/larryosterman/archive/2005/10/21/483...

Good for the Bing team.

It's good to see there is still room for humor in a large corporation:)

Maybe I'm a little biased, but I didn't find the "more evil" joke especially funny - to me it felt like they'd taken it a little too far so it was more mean-spirited than necessary.

I did like the "whiner" one though.

It worked on one level: this is the first time I (and I suspect many of you) has voluntarily tried Bing for a long time.

Do those searches work for anyone, or is it just a joke-post? Neither got the imaged result for me.

It worked for me earlier in the day when I tried it at work, but it doesn't appear to work any longer.

Uhm... I just tried it, and it doesn't work for me...

Check out http://hiybbprqag.com.

First time I've used Bing in many months.

Why are we so concerned whether a company is good or evil? These words are irrelevant when used to describe companies like google/bing. Companies are to obey the laws of the land, and if they break them and are caught, then appropriate action should be taken. Google/Bing being good/evil is a dumb metric. Who knows what the future holds. Celebrate the good when these companies are being good, but they are groups of people who wants your money, it's on a matter of time before some bad seeds take the controls on the top, and the reign of terror begins. At that point it is the customers job to vote with their wallets and attention.

Save the good/evil debate for Sunday morning at the religious services. Lets focus more on the self correcting system we have to keep tyrants from ruling with an iron fist, and prevents people from getting relaxed into inactivity.

It's entirely plausible to be evil without breaking any laws.

Good or evil, as words themselves are just descriptions for a companies motivations and plans. If a companies plans involve harming society whilst in search of profit, then they're "evil".

Acting as a monopoly, and abusing your power until you're caught and censured is evil. Then trying to toe the line of monopoly abuse, so you're not censured again---is evil. It's profitable, but its clearly not to the benefit of society.

> Lets focus more on the self correcting system we have to keep tyrants from ruling with an iron fist, and prevents people from getting relaxed into inactivity.

Right, but then you'll have to ask the question: who is a tyrant? The short form of that is "who is evil?".

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