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Microsoft Tries to Force You to Use Bing
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| According to reports, a glitch in Internet Explorer 6 forced Bing onto users
| as the default search engine. Even when users manually altered their
| preferences, Bing emerged once again.
|
| Search Engine Land contacted Microsoft about the bug. Microsoft acknowledged
| the problem and responded at 2:45 a.m. that the bug is now fixed. End of
| story, right?
|
| Perhaps. But when you take Microsoft's history into consideration, the
| force-feeding of Bing almost makes sense. I am not suggesting Microsoft
| intentionally created this bug to get people hooked on Bing. I am saying
| there's a correlation between the problem at hand and problems Microsoft have
| encountered in the past.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/166024/microsoft_tries_to_force_you_to_use_bing.html
Introducing Bing Search!
http://izanbardprince.wordpress.com/2009/06/06/introducing-bing-search/
Recent:
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.
|
| "linux "
|
| "antitrust microsoft"
|
| "ballmer throws chair"
|
| "bill gates steals"
|
| 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.
|
| [...]
|
| 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.
|
| [...]
|
| 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.
|
| 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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