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manchops
11/13/09

In reply to Why News Corp. Keeps Threatening to Leave Google
This whole thing is reminding me of Carrie Prejean attempting to walk off Larry King Live. Why do right wing freak-a-zoids always have to sit and whine and moan and shriek about "get off my property" and "I'm leaving!" and then never really leave? #newscorp
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badasscat
11/13/09

@manchops: Bcause deep down, they can't live without knowing that somebody is watching them. That's what makes them matter. #newscorp
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son of spam
11/13/09

In reply to Why News Corp. Keeps Threatening to Leave Google
George Pataki is alive and well and living in Rupert Murdoch's basement. #newscorp
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DennyCrane
11/13/09

In reply to Why News Corp. Keeps Threatening to Leave Google
When a consumer enters a query into Google (and just about any other search engine), they can get hundreds of results. If a News Corp site isn't part of the search result, consumers aren't going to switch to Bing. They're just going to click the most relevant search result that's still there, and 90 percent of the time that's going to be just as fine and dandy for the consumer as it would have been otherwise. Google's probably just laughing at this whole thing. Or am I missing something here? #newscorp
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Magister
11/13/09

@DennyCrane: One or the other of the linked pieces mention the old workaround, where non-WSJ subscribers get just the first couple of paragraphs from an article via the WSJ site, but they get the whole thing, if they go through Google.

I've never actually looked at the mechanics of this anomaly, but since the WSJ has a paywall, if the Google trick is unauthorized, I wonder why they don't plug the leak because one assumes it is costing them money.
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Otherwise, I like how the hint from the AP that Microsoft may be willing to favor the story originator in search results, something important to some members of the media results in several comments about the AP being antiquated and how Google could put them out of business, if they wanted.
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badasscat
11/13/09

@DennyCrane: Nope, you're not missing anything. This is just another example of executives not liking the terms that the big distributor gives them, and therefore signing a contract with the little new guy (which in this case, at least, is the role MS is playing), even though the little new guy has less than 1/10 the reach. It happens all the time, both on the internet and off it. And it almost never works out.

This is kind of like a record label saying they're dropping iTunes because Apple takes too much of the profits, and instead they're going to distribute all their stuff through eMusic. #newscorp
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Trai_Dep
10/23/09

In reply to Bing Heats Google Ice Queen
I noticed a recent IE update (friend's computer) had a Bing! search bar built into the frame that is well-nigh impossible to switch to competing search engines (well-nigh = more than three clicks, and wickedly obtuse layouts designed to frighten The Olds).
Odds are quite solid that the "hockey stick growth" of Bing! is that Microsoft is leveraging their browser advantage owing from their near-monopoly over OSs, and not due to actual user preference.
Typical MS underhandedness presented as grass-roots accolades.
It also explains why the growth has stalled: this stunt can only take Bing! so far.
(And yes! I know! that Bing! lacks! exclamation! points!!) #marissamayer
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bens
10/22/09

In reply to Bing Heats Google Ice Queen
The reason the Google team is "rattled" is that they actually have a competitor in the search engine market. Google isn't just a search engine though. As we move to more Web-as-application computing, Google is going to win out. As long as MS expects people to buy Office and other products and services that Google gives away for free, I don't see how MS can compete. Google is making a large push for service contracts ... they're getting large corporations to switch from hosting e-mail to having their backend run off of Google services. Google is able to integrate products and platforms and provide tech support for them. Google spends its development dollars on development, not advertising. Microsoft has plenty of pretty pictures they can put as backgrounds, they have tons of marketing deals they can cross-promote through Bing ... but when it comes to nuts and bolts Google is going to win out. #marissamayer
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iplaudius
10/22/09

In reply to Bing Heats Google Ice Queen
Just add a sidebar and some attractive backgrounds to the Google search page. Bing! I mean—Voilà! #marissamayer
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Conchie Birdie
10/22/09

In reply to Bing Heats Google Ice Queen
Bing is freaking awful, they have nothing to worry about. In fact, the ads for Bing are dead-on. #marissamayer
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ampersandparade
10/22/09

@Conchie Birdie: "Moms wear teen jeans to look like their teens," is now my de facto embarassing thing to blurt out when a room grows awkwardly quiet. #marissamayer
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Tremonius
10/22/09

In reply to Bing Heats Google Ice Queen
It's like all those billions wasted on Star Wars to defend against a Red Menace faded to ochre. Microsoft is like Richie Rich, able to see what's cool and buy it up. Now there are new kids on the block. Meanwhile, the kid down the block is working on a science project at school which will monitor thought waves through electrodes implanted in the cerebellum and inject facts from Wiki in blank places. When he has a patent, ask him what Bing was. He'll say, that was the VHS competitor, right? #marissamayer
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random_play
10/22/09

In reply to Bing Heats Google Ice Queen
Bah! Bing will never be able to get the correct shade of blue. #marissamayer
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Deric
10/22/09

In reply to Bing Heats Google Ice Queen
Ice Queen or not, I'd still bing her. #marissamayer
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Cynical Media Bitch
10/22/09

@Deric: You don't know about her laugh, do you? #marissamayer
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stanner
10/22/09

@Deric: Feeling Lucky? #marissamayer
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nirreskeya
10/22/09

@Cynical Media Bitch: Until this comment, I'd managed to forget. #marissamayer
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QADude
10/22/09

@Deric: That laugh of hers is just....beyond description. There's a good YouTube video with samples. #marissamayer
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raincoaster
10/21/09

In reply to The Retreat of King Twitter
If they want to churn the Suggested Users List, which they should, they should just automatically include everyone the elite who are already on the list recommend on #FollowFriday. #twitter
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skymotel
10/21/09

In reply to The Retreat of King Twitter
The sequence of events behind the Twitter-Bing deal isn't working in an expected order. Twitter users are already (re)tweeting news about Twitter signing a deal with Bing. Of course, they are in a panic. "I don't want my tweets appearing in search results!"

The internet: making things fun to watch! #twitter
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i'm a bottle
07/09/09

In reply to Did Microsoft Actually Do Something Right?
I tried Bing out on a few searches on medieval studies. It is useless. With Google, the top three search results were exactly what I was looking for, with Bing, there were only four results, all of them completely off-topic. Sometimes I wonder whether David Pogue is playing with a full deck: -- Go write another cameraphone review, Pogue.
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miss_msry
07/09/09

In reply to Did Microsoft Actually Do Something Right?
I find Bing useless.
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seyswho
07/09/09

In reply to Did Microsoft Actually Do Something Right?
But I'm so used to typing a G in my address bar and I don't feel like changing my browser settings. Couldn't they have gone with ging.com? I can't be bothered with spelling out the whole damn thing!
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The Cajun Boy
07/09/09

@seyswho: That's the thing...I'm so wired to use Google that I never think to use Bing, ever though I keep meaning to. But Pogue review makes me want to make more of an effort, so I'm putting in my bookmarks.
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