{"id":4895,"date":"2009-06-08T06:33:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-08T11:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4895"},"modified":"2009-06-08T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-08T14:41:05","slug":"and-the-fuss-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4895","title":{"rendered":"And The Fuss Is…?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I checked out Bing <\/a>– Microsoft’s latest attempt at a Google-killer.<\/p>\n

And while I didn’t really give it a solid workout, I noted that it has one “feature” in common with Google.\u00a0 To wit; I do a quick vanity-search on my self.\u00a0 And of course, Shot In The Dark <\/em>comes up at the top (which has got <\/em>to piss off Mitch Berg the Santa Fe glass artist and Mitch Berg the Canadian hockey player).<\/p>\n

But below that?\u00a0 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 <\/strike>“Progressive” Project <\/em>and Scottsdale Woman.<\/p>\n

Which isn’t something that keeps me up at night – I mean, duh, it’s a vanity-Google…er, vanity-Bing?.\u00a0 But if you google Mozart and get three pages of people crabbling “Salieri was teh shizzle you loosers!”, really, what good is it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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.\u00a0 To wit; I do a quick vanity-search on my self.\u00a0 And of course, Shot In The Dark comes up at the top (which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}