Will you use BING, Microsoft's new search engine?

[tomtetlaw]

I know that I certainly wont, I'm a Mac/Linux/any other non-microsoft system supporter.

[Paul Thompson]

Nup, microsoft have enough of my money and time. viva la google! :)

[Hiroshe]

Use MS Bing instead of google...
Hahahahahahahahaha.:twisted:
And what? Let Microsoft kill another market? No chance.

Let's put it this way. Microsoft kills markets by using it's OS dominence and unfair buisiness practices. Becouse they have an OS dominance, they can convince people that their programs are always better. After that, they make sure there software is incompatible with anyone elses. If someone wanted to make their software compatible with Microsoft's, they would have to pay Microsoft lots of money. That's one way they kill a market.

Our fight back? Open source software which does not need money to survive (like firefox, which completely destroid microsoft's attempt at dominating the browser market and writting there own html standards), and honest companies (like Sun, only making money off of companies that use java products, not the users or the programmers). Unfortunatly they are still not popular enough.

So, to stop Microsoft we need to cut their OS dominance. That means we need a competing OS. Luckly we already have one called the Linux kernal, and has already dominated the server and supercomputer markets. Linux is completely free. The reason why people don't use linux is becouse microsoft make's sure windows is not compatible with it, thus making linux seem like a "toy" that can't be used. We need a big company that people rely on to make their twist on linux, so people think "this is not so bad", "we can use this." But who? Google! Google already has a search engine dominance, so when they give out a superior operating system (bassed on linux), it might acually be used.

Microsoft's last resort is to compete in the search engine market, and wipeout Google before Google, and the rest of the open source community, and the companies that microsoft failed to wipeout, dominate them. Lots of factors also give both Linux and Windows advantages. It's going to be close.

[scru]

Who the hell answers a yes or no question with an essay?

[stevenpetersen]

i will only add sites to the engine for the moment.

[sknake]

I use just about every search engine for SEO but I only use google when I want to find something. That being said I had to put yes...

[Hiroshe]

Who the hell answers a yes or no question with an essay?

It's a stratagy to make your teachers stop asking you questions. :P
I kinda wrote it as I was looking it up so it ended up slightly longer than I thought. Also didn't notice the scroll bar shrinking. Oww well :$

[VernonDozier]

It's a stratagy to make your teachers stop asking you questions. :P I kinda wrote it as I was looking it up so it ended up slightly longer than I thought. Also didn't notice the scroll bar shrinking. Oww well :$

I liked the essay. +rep. Some good points.

[Ancient Dragon]

Never heard of it, so I answered No.

[tomtetlaw]

Thanks for all the non-windows support! :):)
And thanks Hiroshe for the essay :P

[Menster]

I still use Google for all of my own searches (research etc.) but when we do SEO reports for our clients, they like to see their rankings on Google, Bing and Yahoo. So we sort of have to use it from time to time.

[Sky Diploma]

It's a stratagy to make your teachers stop asking you questions. :P I kinda wrote it as I was looking it up so it ended up slightly longer than I thought. Also didn't notice the scroll bar shrinking. Oww well :$

I wonder what your essay would be like!!! ;)

[William Hemsworth]

I'll use whatever makes the best searches (still google imo), I don't like all this anti-windows rubbish.

[William Hemsworth]

Just tried BING with a search and compared it with google, I prefered the results from the BING search engine. I may consider testing it for a while.

[VernonDozier]

I'll use whatever makes the best searches (still google imo), I don't like all this anti-windows rubbish.

The bashing is understandable, IMO. People need to vent. In my experience, most peoples' main beefs with Microsoft are the monopolies/anti-trust/bundling issues, which all boil down to people feeling they are being FORCED to use a Microsoft product rather than being allowed to CHOOSE the product they want to use. Thus even when Microsoft comes out with a good product, that backlash and smoldering rage is there and people are unwilling/unable to judge the individual product simply on its merits.

[akanglil]

my blog not index by bing...

[scru]

my sympathy not given to you...

[Selwyn]

They can't even make a decent os let alone a seach engine
I think they need to take the g off the end cause thats where it needs to go.
I loved the essay rant above , every bit is true.
Move over microsoft google is coming with an os soon that will put it in the kerb & free probably

[kaninelupus]

Have been looking for some time for an alternative to Google's horror-show of a search engine, so maybe Bing will prove to be just that. Also a little disappointed at all the anti-MS rants, when Google has long been a privacy-wh@re and is showing to be the new tyrant on the block! Google actually reminds me of Microsoft ten yrs ago

[Hiroshe]

>Google's horror-show of a search engine
What's wrong with the search engine? I've never heard anyone complain about it befor. Mind giving examples of why their search engine is a 'horror show'?
I'm on google's side, but I never said microsoft had bad products. Some of them are good. I'll admit Bing is even good. But there marketing practices are horrible.

>showing to be the new tyrant on the block! Google actually reminds me of Microsoft ten yrs ago
Really? You'll have to explain this one to me. How is google like microsoft 10 years ago? How does google have bad marketing practices (I think thats what you ment by "the new tyrant on the block" )?

>Google has long been a privacy-wh@re
Yup. Even I don't like it. But Google has a good history of not giving it out. They are not known for using it in bad way's, and I dout that a human will ever read any of it.