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Microsoft Launches Search Engine for China — But Don’t Call It Bing
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| But industry analysts say this new move by Microsoft is unlikely to alter the
| competitive landscape in China, since Microsoft’s share of the search market
| has been negligible. The market is currently dominated by Baidu and Google,
| with respective market shares of 59% and 30.6%, according to Internet
| research firm Analysis International.
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http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/06/12/microsoft-launches-search-engine-for-china-but-dont-call-it-bing/
Microsoft's Porn Search Blocked in Islamic Countries
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| Most of the world — especially Islamic and Chinese countries — isn't getting
| the real Bing.
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| As reported last week, searching for "sex" or "porn" in Microsoft's new
| search engine returned dozens of explicit images and videos, as long as the
| user turns "safe search" off.
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| Thanks to Bing's autoplay feature, dragging the mouse over a video thumbnail
| starts playing it immediately — meaning that you can watch hours of hardcore
| sex without even leaving the Bing Web site (or paying for porn).
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525350,00.html
Recent:
BING – Bing Is Not Google
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| Bing - "–noun British Dialect. a heap or pile." thats what Dictionary.com
| says. What do you think?
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/bing-bing-is-not-google/
Microsoft Bing rehosts Wikifiddling as 'Reference' material
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| We all know that Google's search engine likes to push Wikipedia links to the
| top of its results pages. But Microsoft has gone a step further.
|
| [...]
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| Microsoft doesn't appear to be editing Wikipedia pages and it's linking back
| to the GFDL license, so it would seem that Redmond is free to reproduce the
| content and even serve ads against it. "An inherent part of our license
| structure is that downstream commercial uses are allowed," one longtime
| Wikipedian tells The Reg. But the GFDL isn't easily navigated - even for the
| sharpest legal minds.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/03/bing_and_wikipedia/
Bing is not Google, but it is a spin engine.
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| But rather than a search engine or even a "decision engine", Bing also
| appears to be a spin engine, in that it provides partisan answers to
| controversial topics, such as Steve Ballmer's propensity to throw chairs to
| blow off stress. At a friend's suggestion, I typed the following phrases
| (without quotes) into both Google.com and Bing.com. The results are very
| telling. Be sure to look at the phrase completion options that you are
| offered as you type.
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| "linux "
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| "antitrust microsoft"
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| "ballmer throws chair"
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| "bill gates steals"
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| The important thing here is not whether Bill Gates does, in fact, steal, and
| I am not here to make ad hominem attacks on the world's richest man. The
| point is how Microsoft deals with criticism. With spin. As opposed to
| Google, which just repeats much of the criticism of it.
|
| [...]
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| Contrast that with phrases that are negative for Google, such as "Google is
| evil." Typing "Google is e" yields no suggestions. But typing in "Google
| is" yield results which are both positive and negative for Google as a
| company:
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| "Google is your friend"
| "Google is broken"
| "Google is skynet"
| "Google is making us stupid"
| "Google is a number"
| "Google is paying to work from home"
| "Google is always right"
| "Google is taking over the world"
| "Google is watching you"
| "Google is paying"
|
| More to the point is the first phrase. Microsoft's first suggestions all are
| aimed at diverting attention away from one of its keenest competition, Free
| Open Source Software, a competitor which, every year in its official annual
| 10k SEC-mandated warning to investors, Microsoft lists as a threat to its
| profitability.
|
| [...]
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| Clearly, Bing is not Google, and is not going to overtake Google anytime use,
| nor offer information which, on the whole, is as useful to its users as
| Google search results.
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| By the way, the most concise summary of why Google is beating Microsoft can
| be seen by typing this phrase into your browser: Bingisnotgoogle.com. Google
| is always one step ahead of Redmond.
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http://linux.com/community/blogs/Bing-is-not-Google-but-it-is-a-spin-engine.-14904.html
Is Microsoft forcing Bing on IE6 users?
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| We’re getting word that a number of Internet Explorer 6 users are loading up
| their browsers to discover that the default search engine, which they had set
| as Google, has been changed to Bing. What’s more, when they try to change it
| back they’re being blocked from doing so thanks to a Microsoft Live Search
| message that reads: “Oops This isn’t the page that you wanted”.
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http://thenextweb.com/2009/06/02/microsoft-forcing-bing-ie6-users/
Websense blocks Bing in IM snafu
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| Websense users were temporarily blocked from enjoying the launch of
| Microsoft's Bing search engine on Monday.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/02/websense_lifts_bing_block/
China shuts down Twitter and Bing in lead up to Tiananmen anniversary
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| It’s widely known that China runs a pretty tight ship - to put it mildly - on
| what its citizens get to see online, especially that content which exists
| outside of China.
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http://uk.techcrunch.com/2009/06/02/china-shuts-down-twitter-and-bing-in-lead-up-to-tiananmen-anniversary/
Badda-Bing Indeed.
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| This is just too good. One of the features of Microsoft’s just launched Bing
| search engine is that it auto-plays videos in results when you hover over
| them. Naturally, the first thing a number of people, like Loic Le Meur, did
| was search for “sex” or “porn.” The results are majestic — if you’re a
| teenager looking for a way around porn filters on your computer. And this
| isn’t artful porn or something like it, it’s straight-up, hardcore
| pornography.
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http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/01/badda-bing-indeed/
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