bing, a short story

[[THANATOS].Teo]

So you guys might know, im working for the NH DoT this summer. I basically take pictures of wet/dry water detention basins and report on whether or not they are working as designed. anyways, I was out doing a wetland delineation with 3 co-workers and we found this crazy lookin bug with orange wing flaps and a blue body.

After searching on google for about 15 minutes and finding nothing i suggested we do a bing search. This was the first time using it and i wondered if what they said was really true, that its not so much a "search" engine but rather a "decision" engine.

this is the wierd part:
In the search box i literally typed in: "that bug i saw the other day"

and sure enough the very first link they showed was this one:
http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2003/07/20/t...-this-bug/

if you scroll down you'll see my bug.

i know its pretty lucky but i thought it was cool

[[THANATOS].Zer0-^GT]

You gotta stop the drugs man.

[[THANATOS].Shiver-]

That's crazy

[[THANATOS].Metal]

Yeah, bing whoops ass. I was looking for a standup the other day and google/youtube were both being uncooperative fuckers. So I hopped on bing (my first search) and it had the video I wanted come up right there. Even plays the videos if you hover over them in the search results so you don't have to open/close a million tabs to find what you're looking for.



Also, that bug looks like this thing we've got down here. Mofucker sucks your blood when you sleep, and takes a shit on you at the same time. Then your unsuspecting ass goes to scratch the bite -- because, "WTF itchy!" -- scraping it's shit into the wound, causing infection.

Fuckin bugs...

[[THANATOS].-Hades]

I had a screen capture of a Bing ad that claimed that you could type in equations and it would solv/point to the answer. After clicking on said ad, the resulting page had no results regarding the advertised equation.

Bing is just like any other search engine (ones that use clever algorithms to organize results) and is trying to compete with Google but will ultimately fail unless it (microsoft) has more tricks up its sleaves.

[[THANATOS].Metal]

[THANATOS Wrote:.-Hades"]

Bing is just like any other search engine (ones that use clever algorithms to organize results) and is trying to compete with Google but will ultimately succeed unless it (Google) has more tricks up its sleeves.

Fixed.

[Spluff]

Bing will fail purely on name alone. If microsoft could actually name their products they wouldn't be in the situation they are in right now.

[[THANATOS].-Hades]

[THANATOS Wrote:.Metal"]

[THANATOS Wrote:.-Hades"]

Bing is just like any other search engine (ones that use clever algorithms to organize results) and is trying to compete with Google but will ultimately succeed unless it (Google) has more tricks up its sleeves.

Fixed.

LOL please tell me you're joking... Bing has yet to do anything that would make people switch over from google.

And Spluff is correct about the name thing.

Anyone remember Cuil?