Bing

[Dead_Lioness]

.....is the defult search engine at my job, so I'm pretty much forced to use it.

Not impressed.

 

[Shpongled]

Pretty sure they're a partner with Microsoft. All our computers here are imaged with the new Windows 7 and there is Bing shit all over the place. I'm not into it either.

 

[slashvanyoung]

Who is partners with MS? Bing? Bing IS MS. It replaced their "Live Search". Brand overhaul but pretty much the same shit under the hood.

Karen, which browser are you using at work? Most, if not all, will let you change the default search engine even with restricted user rights.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Pretty sure they're a partner with Microsoft. All our computers here are imaged with the new Windows 7 and there is Bing shit all over the place. I'm not into it either.

Bing is from Microsoft.

And it fucking sucks. I never use it.

 

[Chromatose]

lol "forced" to use bing

I would never let that happen.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

lol "forced" to use bing

I would never let that happen.

long story short....... we are developing something on the web, and we need to test search engines, and options for our website etc....Bing is the priority right now, since we already got Google done.


I hate it.

 

[Chromatose]

Ah well that's an exception to just being locked into using it to google.

See I say google and not "internet search" all glory to google!

 

[Shpongled]

That explains it then. Shows how much of a shit I really give about it haha.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Microsoft should really stay out of everything to do with internet browsing, and leave it to Google and Mozilla.

 

[Chromatose]

I liked the old days when there were at least a dozen competing internet search engines to choose from.

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

I still get program installs that want me to add the ask.com or yahoo.com bar.

 

[Dead_Lioness]

lol ask.com

 

[Enemy242]

google is the only search engine i ever use; it's kinda crazy how the idea of search engines for me has become forever tied to google. i don't even think about any other search engine ever, google has overtaken all.

 

[Lord Foul]

*sheds a lonely tear for Altavista*

 

[Shpongled]

*fondly remembers WebCrawler and the cool spider logo they had*


http://web.archive.org/web/20010301174206/http://www.webcrawler.com/

 

[slashvanyoung]

Microsoft should really stay out of everything to do with internet browsing, and leave it to Google and Mozilla.

You might change that opinion when... and I almost can't believe I'm actually writing this... IE9 drops in a few months.

Initial benchmarks and demos show that it has the potential to smoke - at least speed-wise - every other browser available right now.

http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Default.html

 

[WhiteBeastofWotan]

Firefox is fast enough, and its not nearly as big of a pain as IE is.

 

[slashvanyoung]

I'm a FF devotee too, but check out the demo and compare it to FF... To say that the difference is impressing is quite an understatement even when you keep in mind that the page has solely been created to showcase IE9's skills.

 

[Det Som Engang Var]

I liked the old days when there were at least a dozen competing internet search engines to choose from.

Gosh, I was like 9. (I still used the internet back then) Those were the days. What's funny is Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, and Alta Visa used to be my choices. I never used Google until like 2003.

 

[Liverslapper]

Icky Bing.