And The Fuss Is…?
By Mitch Berg
I checked out Bing – Microsoft’s latest attempt at a Google-killer.
And while I didn’t really give it a solid workout, I noted that it has one “feature” in common with Google. To wit; I do a quick vanity-search on my self. And of course, Shot In The Dark comes up at the top (which has got to piss off Mitch Berg the Santa Fe glass artist and Mitch Berg the Canadian hockey player).
But below that? Even though I’ve been linked a couple dozen times by Instapundit, to say nothing of dozens and dozens of times by Hot Air, Powerline, Lileks and other genuine heavyweights, my first page is clogged with links from leftyblog amoebae like Dump Bachmann, Minnesota Tragedy of Spyrochaetal Paresis “Progressive” Project and Scottsdale Woman.
Which isn’t something that keeps me up at night – I mean, duh, it’s a vanity-Google…er, vanity-Bing?. But if you google Mozart and get three pages of people crabbling “Salieri was teh shizzle you loosers!”, really, what good is it?
June 8th, 2009 at 9:54 am
While that may be true, on June 6th they had a rather prominent acknowledgment of D-Day. The entire background was a picture of one of the beaches of Normandy, and they had several links to articles about what happened. I think that is more than enough to earn the switch from google who memorialized Tetris.
June 8th, 2009 at 10:09 am
First Bob, and now Bing.
June 8th, 2009 at 11:35 am
there is another search engine I found once (but can’t again) put togehter by ex-googlers. Something like cuit?
June 8th, 2009 at 11:48 am
You’re probably thinking of cuil which was over-hyped and rather buggy when first announced. I still don’t like their presentation format.
The top 3 search engines pretty much are equally good now. About the only thing that makes Google my choice is that I’ve been using them since their alpha days of running on linux boxes out of Stanford and they’re a habit now.