Comments on: Remember Bing?

By: Jerry

Jerry — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 19:35:15 +0000

Just looked and bing is now responsible for 4.15% of my visitors – according to Google.

By: Carol Anne

Carol Anne — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 08:53:07 +0000

I needed to look up an article. I knew the article’s title, and I knew the article’s author. I typed both into the Bing search window. The article didn’t show up in the first four screens of search results. I gave up.

“Decision Engine.” Yeah, right.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:34:20 +0000

Also, this was the thoughts that come from the drunk dialing side of the force. Except this was the Up Half The Night With Sick Baby And Now You Are Full Of Coffee Which You Don’t Normally Drink So You Are Jazzed And Loopy Dialing variety. pL probably has my back on this.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:30:55 +0000

Oh, I didn’t realize – in fact I thought you had said in an earlier entry it was a Prague friend of yours doing the voice. Or was he the source of the recording?

By: Gerald

Gerald — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:01:42 +0000

I’m pretty sure that there never will be a “Google killer.” There will be tools that do specific things better, but how do you google better than Google?

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:17:19 +0000

Speaking of the Microsoft circle jerk, I went over to Bing to see if there was a way to improve my hit rate with them. They already indexed a subset of my pages, so I submitted a site map to help them out. No discernible effect. Then I saw a section that allows you to analyze your performance against different key words and phrases, similar to a service Google has, except with this one you *must* have Microsoft Excel to use it. Never mind.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:11:45 +0000

The thing is, that actually IS Shatner doing Lucy in the Sky. I also have a recording of him doing Mr. Tambourine Man, and other songs are out there. The reason I use that one is that I could cut and paste it (with the lips already synced) from my very-slowly-progressing Flash sequel to the duck animation.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:54:45 +0000

I think it’s time for Shatty Baby to change songs. I wanna hear him singin Love is All Around from the Mary Tyler Moore show. Since I will never be lucky enuf to agin be MOH, I have to bat my eyes at TG, and hope she likes the idea. You can even use her voice.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:44:29 +0000

I see Bing thrust at me a lot because I do lots of news browsing on msnbc.com and since they are all in a circle jerk, that’s what you get. I was reading about the Samoan Tsunami, and wanted to look at the IRIS seismic monitor. What the heck, I typed in iris seismic in msncb’s bing field and got crap. I typed same into google and got it on the first hit.

Although I am an anti-fan of microsoft I could actually give bing some fair chances because Google-first-do-no-evil has changed into Google-do-no-evil-except-when-trying-to-get-into-China-market-and-when-trying-to-monopolize-world’s-book-text-searching.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:42:52 +0000

After I posted that I went and looked up Bing’s market share. 10%, according to people paid to know. I find that really hard to believe. I had exactly one Bing-driven hit in September. Various Googles brought in just over 1000.

Maybe that indicates that Bing actually does work better…