Hi. Has anyone tried 'Bing', the new Microsoft search engine?

I just gave it a test and I gotta admit, I like it! I just did a quick search for 'Yankees' and it came up with a nice display of all sorts of useful information. Then, as I scolled down to the results, they were sorted into categories like 'schedule', 'roster' and 'rumors'. Neato.

I wonder what it would do if there had been a game on when I searched it.

Google results looked really bad in comparison. Like primitive or something. Bare bones.

The weird thing, is that I doubt it will overtake Google in popularity. Whenever you want to search for something, you 'Google' it. Even when I was searching on 'Bing', I kept thinking of things I wanted to 'Google'. It's like the brand became the generic word for something. Like Kleen-ex.

I haven't used Bing for any real, intensive searches yet though, but I put some of the old Google functions through the paces. The minus sign excluder worked perfectly well. As did site-specific searches (e.g. cavutto site:flickr.com). The * wild card function did not work, however.

I'm going to give it a try for the next few days and see if my mind changes. So far, I like it!

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

So from time to time I'm too lazy to type google into the search bar so I just type what I'm looking for. Over the last week it has brought me to this bing page with all my results. I never put two and two together to realize that this is the search engine replacing Microsoft Live Search.

Along comes Doc Z. He tells me it is four. Thanks!

Searching by file type works too (e.g. 'search term' filetype:pdf).

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

Yeah... but I don't like the name "Bing"

It reminds me of Chandler from Friends.

It DOES remind me of not only Chandler - but his annoying girlfriend Janice who wound up marrying the mattress king.

Or was it the Sofa King? These couches are SOFA KING cheap!!

Doc - there are examples where brands became and then lost status as "the" term for something.

I submit: Xerox to you. If you say, "Will you Xerox this for me?" to anyone in late Gen Y they look at you funny.

There's a whole list of genericized trademarks on Wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

DYK, at one point, singer had lost their trademark due to generic usage and managed to get it back? One of the few companies who ever managed it.

It reminds me of Joe Pesci from Goodfellas

"Hey Bing, what are you doin' here? I thought I told ya to go f*ck yourself"

So, aside from the name, what do you guys think of it? Am I the only one that likes it?

Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

I just googled it. Seems pretty cool. I googled "Red Sox" on it. The first result was the box score of the on going game.

It looks pretty cool.
I like the Bird's Eye view thing they have in the map section.

THAT'S AWESOME. Red sox are ahead 6-3!
Very cool site, Ryan . . . thanks! I bookmarked it.

Hah! @ googling bing

To Answer Squid's friend's trivia question,
Yes, she was married to the Mattress King. She left Chandler to go back to him.
Turns out it didn't work as when Rachel is at the hospital in labor, Janice shares a room with her for a time and Janice is married to Sid. Who is partly deaf.

Also, Bing - Gaelic for thy turkey is done.

Could you say,

Bing! Flyless bird is done! Would you like an apply pie with that?

?

Ok, so I just used THE BING. Interesting but no big deal, I binged a kite I like and it drilled directly to the page instead of just bringing me to a higher level page. Does that make sense? Anyway I liked that.

I BIS'd "formal cruise dinner". Not nearly as funny. I'm sticking with Google. It's way more fun to say, anyway. You can have your "it works better" logic, Ryan.

I dunno, I kinda like saying "I binged George Clooney."

HA!

I thought this thread was going to be about Chandler.

I originally thought the thread title was "Bling"

I'm pretty disappointed.

Here you go maestra... I binged bling

Blech. That looks like what you'd get if you ate a chocolate cupcake covered in sprinkles, downed a bottle of Goldschlager, and ralphed it up.

It was that or a big dollar sign. I'm blaming bing.

Wait, what do you have for me google...



A bedazzled mouse? hmm.

There's your problem right there - you're still using Google.

Bing Bling



Land sakes alive, the steak's alive.

I like the commercial

me too. i saw the commercial yesterday and before they got there i figured it had to be for bing. pretty clever.

Q: What do the Daily Fact Board and Bing have in common?

A: They are both blocked at my work.

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I'm sort of surprised they think they can get people to say...

'Let's Bing it and find out about whatever...'

Like lingo style

At least twice since friday I've told someone I'm going to "bing" something.

The first time i sparked a debate about the new search engine the second time got no reaction.

Linds binged 'Evironmental Lapse Rate' tonight (due for Geography tomorrow).

I think the past tense should be 'bunged'.

just sayin'

Bing
Bang
Bung

...as the past tense.

I once wanted to start a bank marketed at gen-xers and gen-yers. I would call it "Bungbank" and have a commercial where a dude was filling out a deposit slip, minding his own business, and an ice hockey player flavor-of-the-month would come out of nowhere and slam into him. Then a caption would read "Checking with bung."

End of commercial.

ETA full disclosure: The Wife works for "quality control" at Bing.

I am

Saw a TV ad for Bing last night that was very good.

So Microsoft. You come up with this fancy new bing. Then you force it as a toolbar into IE.

One of our new online systems at my office is only compatible with IE. Now when I use IE I have a random add on that forces the program to close. Frequently.

Bing, I'm looking at you with your fancy weather forecast on the right hand corner...

Is this with the new IE 8? I denied downloading it last time it tried to make me.

Possibly... I never deny those unless I don't have time and I want to shut down my computer.

I usually deny the big things like that till I start seeing people here talk about them. I tried out bing for a while, but I found it still wasn't as good as google.

What I am learning here is that I've done this to myself and need to learn to say no to my computer?

ha ha yes. Stand up to your computer, make sure you're getting what you need out of the relationship.