Bing.com? - now i know where the name came from

[buck2825]

guy at work found this thought I would share

[CJ Master]

You need to upload your picture to a service such as TinyPic (http://tinypic.com/).

[pwnst*r]

man, that's hilarious. sides splitting.

[ZankerH]

I'm still in favour of the recursive acronym theory - "Bing is not Google".

[Xbehave]

You need to upload your picture to a service such as TinyPic (http://tinypic.com/).
Why? you can put an attached image in posts if you want, but it makes the thread much more readable if you just leave them as attachments.

[hoppipolla]

Ha! Well there we go :)

It means "disease" in one of the most spoken languages in the world!

[Maheriano]

I just asked my ex girlfriend to confirm this. Will post back.

[pwnst*r]

check this out! http://depositfiles.com/files/ve1ruvdva

um. no thanks.

[CJ Master]

Why? you can put an attached image in posts if you want, but it makes the thread much more readable if you just leave them as attachments.

His origional post was something like file://C:/Documents and settings/img.png

[The Funkbomb]

I tried Bing out just to see what everyone is talking about. I saw nothing special.

Google is all you need. You just need to learn how to pick your search terms.

[MasterNetra]

I tried Bing out just to see what everyone is talking about. I saw nothing special.

Google is all you need. You just need to learn how to pick your search terms.

lol I never use any search engine except Google. ^.^

[The Funkbomb]

Oh, the other thing I hate are the commercials. Obnoxious.

[CharmyBee]

This search engine would be popular for '20s gangsters. Bing 'em and whack 'im. It'll make you a bing you can't refuse.

One thing I like about Bing is the bird's eye view for maps. This puts a little more perspective over the strict top down satellite images.

[hoppipolla]

I tried Bing out just to see what everyone is talking about. I saw nothing special.

Google is all you need. You just need to learn how to pick your search terms.

Bing's alright. It looks quite pretty but I actually preferred the look of Ask about... 2 years ago? When it had the little images for different kinds of searches!

Sadly though it's actual search results have always been quite poor, hence why I don't use it!

[Maheriano]

I just asked my ex girlfriend to confirm this. Will post back.

So she got back to me and apparently bing is Chinese for disease, it's true.

And it looks like Microsoft is teaming up with ESRI which is where the map software is coming from.

[Xbehave]

His origional post was something like file://C:/Documents and settings/img.png
ah well once attached he can do [img]http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=135036&d=1257535112[<not this>/IMG]

[JDShu]

Oh, the other thing I hate are the commercials. Obnoxious.

Exactly! According to the commercials, we need Bing to make our decisions for us.

[solitaire]

What was Microsofts other attempt at a search engine?
It had a video of a girl that reacted and responded to your queries in some weird (and sometimes funny) ways?

[The Funkbomb]

Exactly! According to the commercials, we need Bing to make our decisions for us.

Of course. And people wonder how Skynet became self aware. There was a time when searches were strongly boolean dependent. When our school libraries first switched from physical Card Catalog to a computerized system, it was strictly boolean search operators.

Now it seems like you can put a search in for anything and find what you're looking for in the top 10 results. That's cool I guess. Maybe I see computers differently. I like a computer that challenges and inspires me to think rather than think for me.

[samjh]

What was Microsofts other attempt at a search engine?

Live Search. It is no longer operational (replaced by Bing).

Personally, I think Live Search was quite good. At least at the same level as Google, Yahoo, and Ask.

BTW, Cuil, the search engine set up by some ex-Google employees, seem to be running well these days.

[pwnst*r]

Of course. And people wonder how Skynet became self aware. There was a time when searches were strongly boolean dependent. When our school libraries first switched from physical Card Catalog to a computerized system, it was strictly boolean search operators.

Now it seems like you can put a search in for anything and find what you're looking for in the top 10 results. That's cool I guess. Maybe I see computers differently. I like a computer that challenges and inspires me to think rather than think for me.

lol, WOW.

[Edgeworth]

Chinese is weird like that. Bing can also be translated as "luminous" (probably more along the lines of what they were going for) or as "wooden shoe", which is not relevant at all, but it's somewhat funny.

[BuffaloX]

I'm still in favour of the recursive acronym theory - "Bing is not Google".

Wow that's amazing, I never noticed that how ironic.
So Bing is not Google it's a disease.
Maybe someone at Microsoft really hates it there. :p

[afeasfaerw23231233]

Chinese is weird like that. Bing can also be translated as "luminous" (probably more along the lines of what they were going for) or as "wooden shoe", which is not relevant at all, but it's somewhat funny.

It depends on its tones. If you know Mandarin it is not weird and confusing at all.

bing1 檳, 屏, 冰, 兵
bing3 丙, 昺, 稟, 餅, 秉, 炳
bing4 摒, 柄, 枋, 病, 并, 並, 併

[siimo]

Even if bing stands for "disease" then it is not a very bad name at all.

Although this was posted here for all the Microsoft haters here to laugh about it.

I think of it like this:
Microsoft's web crawlers spreading across the web like a "disease" to reach every single website and index it into its search engine database.

Pretty good name for what its worth. :rolleyes:

[Exodist]

guy at work found this thought I would share
Fortune cookies DO tell the truth.. lol

[Maheriano]

What was Microsofts other attempt at a search engine?
It had a video of a girl that reacted and responded to your queries in some weird (and sometimes funny) ways?

Live Search. It is no longer operational (replaced by Bing).
Wrong, it was Ms. Dewey and it sucked.

[misfitpierce]

Hahaha... thats freakin great right there! Laugh!

[afeasfaerw23231233]

MS Windows has had a good name in China starting from the Windows 95 era

Windows 95 = Win 95 = 瘟95 (disease 95/ pandemic 95)

瘟 (瘟疫 pandemic, epidemic) is definitely a bad thing in Chinese.

Win3.1, Win95, Win98, WinME, Win2000, WinXP, Win Vista, Win7......
瘟3.1, 瘟95, 瘟98, 瘟ME, 瘟2000, 瘟XP, 瘟Vista, 瘟7......

Keep going until the end of the world, or the bankruptcy of MS. ;)

[HappinessNow]

I'm still in favour of the recursive acronym theory - "Bing is not Google".
That is nice, but I always thought they named themselves after the Bing Cherry or Bing Crosby.

[inobe]

they couldn't use the term Bingo and left out the o


the term in the u.s. is either a game that's played or a slang/ metaphor that suggests "gotcha" or "got it" "found it"