Comments on: The Bing is dead. Long live the Bing. http://everythingyouknowaboutenglishiswrong.com/blog1/2009/06/02/the-bing-is-dead-long-live-the-bing/ Cantankerous commentary on what we speak and why we speak it, from Bill Brohaugh Wed, 03 Nov 2010 05:11:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: SoupAddict Karen http://everythingyouknowaboutenglishiswrong.com/blog1/2009/06/02/the-bing-is-dead-long-live-the-bing/comment-page-1/#comment-4824 SoupAddict Karen Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:32:16 +0000 http://everythingyouknowaboutenglishiswrong.com/blog1/2009/06/02/the-bing-is-dead-long-live-the-bing/#comment-4824 Yup, Chandler is what first came to my mind ... I guess the search engine is aimed at the youngin's, who were not part of the "Friends" generation. (Not to be confused with the Facebook generation, where "Friends" are people you don't actually know - you're just pawn in their impressive head count.) I did identical searches on Google and Bing. The top 10 results on googlelyoogleyoogleyo were entirely relevant. None of Bing's top 20 were relevant, or even secondarily related. [!Bing!] And suddenly, I got an idea that I'll be using da Googles for the foreseeable future.... Yup, Chandler is what first came to my mind … I guess the search engine is aimed at the youngin’s, who were not part of the “Friends” generation. (Not to be confused with the Facebook generation, where “Friends” are people you don’t actually know – you’re just pawn in their impressive head count.)

I did identical searches on Google and Bing. The top 10 results on googlelyoogleyoogleyo were entirely relevant. None of Bing’s top 20 were relevant, or even secondarily related. [!Bing!] And suddenly, I got an idea that I’ll be using da Googles for the foreseeable future….

]]> By: JohnnyB http://everythingyouknowaboutenglishiswrong.com/blog1/2009/06/02/the-bing-is-dead-long-live-the-bing/comment-page-1/#comment-4752 JohnnyB Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:23:33 +0000 http://everythingyouknowaboutenglishiswrong.com/blog1/2009/06/02/the-bing-is-dead-long-live-the-bing/#comment-4752 I thought of Chandler Bing ("Friends"). "the sound of found"? Could that <i>BE</i> any more lame? I thought of Chandler Bing (”Friends”). “the sound of found”? Could that BE any more lame?

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