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Does Microsoft's Bing have Google running scared?

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10 pointsiamelgringo13 comments

This article got trashed yesterday. For obvious reasons. My comment yesterday still applies:

"I bet Cnet and the like just have MadLibs-like templates for "journalism" like this. "Does ___ have ___ running scared"?"

http://www.google.com/search?q=Does+have+running+scared+site...

Yes.

CNET also has a lot of articles that the headlines are purely questions.

That could be a fun website for tech fans, where you have to fill in the blanks. Here are a few recent ones:

Palm Pre - Apple iPhone 3GS - Palm Twitter Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

My bad. Sorry for the submission.

But do you think CNet is as bad as Network World?

I decided to try switching from Google to Bing for a week today. I'm calling it my "Bing Week".

http://twitter.com/jgrahamc/status/2176900329

I just finished my 'Bing Day' and it's been awesome. I'm going to keep trying it for a while, but keeping Google in the shortcut bar due to habit.

What about it is awesome, exactly? I keep trying to give it a fair shake, but it's not got the critical mass of awesomeness to make me give up something familiar. In fact, I don't see a single thing about it better than what I'm used to.

I don't mind switching, but I honestly don't see any advantage to doing so. But I'm probably missing something, so am looking for knowledge from others. The only concrete thing I've gotten so far is from a buddy of mine who works for MS, so ... not quite unbiased, there.

Upvoted in the hope it gets killed (again) quicker.

I wish safari would allow choice when it comes to search engines. Even the windows version of safari allows a yahoo option.

Have you tried Inquisitor?

http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/index_en.php

No. I think at most, probably when Eric Schmidt changes channels on his enormous HD television he is mildly annoyed at the awful mind-numbing commericals Microsoft's "marketing" team has come up with Bing. I don't remember where I first saw it but I think "But It's Not Google" captures it pretty well.

Not to mention their idiotic "I'm a pissy" adverts.

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