If I ever need batteries, I know that there will be some unused ones in my wife's XBox controller.
Thought Blob
It's unyet formed, but in Gulliver Travel's "Yahoo" style, a race of Politicians with long thin intestines, capable of digesting food efficiently, going to the bathroom only a few times a year and leaving a mess when they do, "full of shit", unable to breath regularly without mumbling or talking so it's constant.
Goliath's David vs David's Goliath
While Google has been trampling down its competitors with dirty tricks like "quality" and "innovation," Microsoft's Live Search team has been slowly plotting and planning to over throw the Mountain View, California-based search giant. Their entry into the online realm is Bing.com, what they claim is not a "search engine," but the first "decision engine."
Thank God for Microsoft. I thought my decisions would have to be made by myself.
Bing's homepage could be mistaken for Google's if not for the gorgeous image and hotspots, which change daily. Missing an opportunity to coin a new term that could be used in the future for interactive image based homepage themes, Bing's "homepage and hotspots" ("hotspots" being the new term MS invented for imagemapping, yes, that code from the 1990s) display a different generic background picture everyday, coupled with a few relevant links on the picture and in text below it. Thankfully, if this tickles your fancy, you can review a whole archive of their past homepages. Simply install another Microsoft program called Silverlight, which ignores open software standards.
Of course the true test of a search engine is its ability to grasp what us fleshy flawed mortals are trying to get it to find. Blind Search (http://blindsearch.fejus.com) provides the best, most neutral opportunity to see if you like Bing over Google or Yahoo. Searching blindly will lead to three anonymous columns of results from the Big Three, letting you surprise yourself with which engine finds what you want. The results can be surprising. I wanted "breakfast" and Google started listing B&Bs in the Napa Valley. Yahoo and Bing were strictly about the meal. Searching for my usual username of "adamsimon" revealed only Yahoo knew I was looking for it as a user name.
Relevancy is only half of the results equation. What about neutrality? If I search "Adolf Hitler" and get only Neo-Nazi sites, I'm going to turn in a very odd report in history class. Try searching "Linux" on Microsoft's engine and you'll be suggested to search for Windows and Vista. Search on Google and you'll get no such thing. Other fun phrases are "antitrust microsoft," "ballmer throws chair," and "bill gates steals." (link)
A big congratulations to Microsoft for continuing to design software with the porn addict in mind. IE's porn mode was so successful that Microsoft thought a lot about porn when they wrote Bing's image engine. All NSFW content actually gets pushed through explicit.bing.com, though that reroute is hidden from the end user. This allows for schools and offices to block explicit content without inconveincing home hobbyists.
The ads have hit the airwaves and datastreams in the form of "We have search overload! We need someone to tell us what we need!" Did that message seriously not resonate as insulting when they thought of it? I have noticed a shift away from the commercials that show the entire world participating in search overload and only a handful of frustrated Bing users to mentally handicapped to join in. Now the commercials focus on ostracizing a single person in the company of confused Bing users.
The ad campaign is meant to beat us into submission with a budget of $100 million dollar. Ironically a large portion of that budget is going to Google for ad space on their search engine. There must be wiser ways to use money than to give it to competition. For instance, for $100 million dollars, you could buy two thousand years of innovation and entrepreneurship by paying $50,000 annually to a thousand entrepreneurs to work for two years and share IP rights. (link)
Bing seems to be following in the footsteps of other Microsoft "innovations" by using half of the ideas others have proven effectively, then packaging it in outrageously expensive clothes, hoping to impress the teeming masses. While it is a valid entry into the industry, once you get passed the pomp and circumstance, it becomes quite clear that the emperor is buck ass naked.
Thank God for Microsoft. I thought my decisions would have to be made by myself.
Bing's homepage could be mistaken for Google's if not for the gorgeous image and hotspots, which change daily. Missing an opportunity to coin a new term that could be used in the future for interactive image based homepage themes, Bing's "homepage and hotspots" ("hotspots" being the new term MS invented for imagemapping, yes, that code from the 1990s) display a different generic background picture everyday, coupled with a few relevant links on the picture and in text below it. Thankfully, if this tickles your fancy, you can review a whole archive of their past homepages. Simply install another Microsoft program called Silverlight, which ignores open software standards.
Of course the true test of a search engine is its ability to grasp what us fleshy flawed mortals are trying to get it to find. Blind Search (http://blindsearch.fejus.com) provides the best, most neutral opportunity to see if you like Bing over Google or Yahoo. Searching blindly will lead to three anonymous columns of results from the Big Three, letting you surprise yourself with which engine finds what you want. The results can be surprising. I wanted "breakfast" and Google started listing B&Bs in the Napa Valley. Yahoo and Bing were strictly about the meal. Searching for my usual username of "adamsimon" revealed only Yahoo knew I was looking for it as a user name.
Relevancy is only half of the results equation. What about neutrality? If I search "Adolf Hitler" and get only Neo-Nazi sites, I'm going to turn in a very odd report in history class. Try searching "Linux" on Microsoft's engine and you'll be suggested to search for Windows and Vista. Search on Google and you'll get no such thing. Other fun phrases are "antitrust microsoft," "ballmer throws chair," and "bill gates steals." (link)
A big congratulations to Microsoft for continuing to design software with the porn addict in mind. IE's porn mode was so successful that Microsoft thought a lot about porn when they wrote Bing's image engine. All NSFW content actually gets pushed through explicit.bing.com, though that reroute is hidden from the end user. This allows for schools and offices to block explicit content without inconveincing home hobbyists.
The ads have hit the airwaves and datastreams in the form of "We have search overload! We need someone to tell us what we need!" Did that message seriously not resonate as insulting when they thought of it? I have noticed a shift away from the commercials that show the entire world participating in search overload and only a handful of frustrated Bing users to mentally handicapped to join in. Now the commercials focus on ostracizing a single person in the company of confused Bing users.
The ad campaign is meant to beat us into submission with a budget of $100 million dollar. Ironically a large portion of that budget is going to Google for ad space on their search engine. There must be wiser ways to use money than to give it to competition. For instance, for $100 million dollars, you could buy two thousand years of innovation and entrepreneurship by paying $50,000 annually to a thousand entrepreneurs to work for two years and share IP rights. (link)
Bing seems to be following in the footsteps of other Microsoft "innovations" by using half of the ideas others have proven effectively, then packaging it in outrageously expensive clothes, hoping to impress the teeming masses. While it is a valid entry into the industry, once you get passed the pomp and circumstance, it becomes quite clear that the emperor is buck ass naked.
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