tain Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2...found-bing.aspxThe sound of found: Bing!This morning, Steve Ballmer is speaking at the D Conference where he’s unveiling our new search service — named Bing. Bing is rolling out internally to Microsoft employees worldwide today and will be available to you and your friends in the coming days. We spent lots of time listening to you, learning how you use search today and what you’re trying to accomplish with search. We found that search is no longer just a tool for mapping a keyword to a document. If you’re like many people, you’re increasingly using search to help you make decisions: from everyday decisions, like which restaurant to eat at, to complicated decisions, like which digital camera to buy or when to fly and where to stay on your next vacation.Problem is: search engines themselves haven’t evolved all that much to address the new ways that people like you are using search today.So today we’re introducing a new kind of search that goes beyond traditional search engines to help you make faster, more informed decisions. It will do this by combining a great search engine (with powerful new features to improve your results for any query), more organized results, and unique tools to help you make important decisions. We think of Bing as a Decision Engine.So why did we pick Bing as the new brand name? We needed a brand that was as fresh and new as our approach. It needed to be like the product — optimized for the Internet. A name that was memorable, short, easy to spell, and that would function well as a URL around the world. We like Bing because it sounds off in our heads when we think about that moment of discovery and decision making — when you resolve those important tasks. And frankly, the name needed to clearly communicate that this is something new, to invite you to come back, to re-introduce you to our new and improved service and encourage you to give it a try.In the coming weeks we’ll be using the blog to update you on Bing and provide an inside look at how we’ve designed it to cut through the clutter on the Web and deliver more relevant results to help you make better choices. In the meantime, we encourage you to check out our press release, visit http://www.decisionengine.com, and follow us on Twitter (@Bing) for all the latest news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted May 29, 2009 Share Posted May 29, 2009 I think this is actually a good name. It's only one syllable, rhymes with ping (active sonar) and ding (it's done), and it almost spells bingo! I look forward to trying it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tain Posted May 29, 2009 Author Share Posted May 29, 2009 "But It's Not Google." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Compare Bing to Google (from TechCrunch)http://www.blackdog.ie/google-bing/search.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamtheky Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 @Prime excellent link, thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 The sound of found: Bing!We spent lots of time listening to you, learning how you use search today and what you’re trying to accomplish with search. We found that search is no longer just a tool for mapping a keyword to a document. If you’re like many people, you’re increasingly using search to help you make decisions: from everyday decisions, like which restaurant to eat at, to complicated decisions, like which digital camera to buy or when to fly and where to stay on your next vacation....but unfortunately the only name we could come up with, was the name of a character of a reknown TV show:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_BingI sincerely wish that the new-born has less problems with the morality of his mother than the better known one used to have.... Subtitle:"thy turkey's done"jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamehead200 Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 Stupid Live/Bing search... It's able to find my website with keywords I removed from my meta tags over 6 months ago. Maybe they should re-index the Internet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted June 3, 2009 Share Posted June 3, 2009 There is a Firefox addon nowhttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10434 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 IDk it had my site at #4 on bing and #6 on google. Maybe if I still had content on it still I could get it back up to #1 where it belongs.Oh and I think Bing Crosby with this name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lost_packet Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 It was October 15 1977, and Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper featured this memorable headline...BING DROPS DEADSubtle as a Patriot missile, or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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